LIK - the modern day purveyors of classic Swedish death metal - gloriously return to action with their fourth album ‘Necro’ via Metal Blade!
Standing loud and proud over so many imitators, ‘Necro’ is the musical equivalent of a classic shock-horror movie that’s drenched in blood and gore and packed with over-the-top extremities.
Delve beyond the zombie-fied cover art created by Stockholm-based tattooist and artist Jens Olsson, ‘Necro’ serves as a reminder of just how special and exciting the genre is: packed with blood-curdling fantasy stories about war, death, zombies, world apocalypse, murder; and stacked with disgustingly-good rotten riffs.
LIK are proudly staying true to the DNA and ethos of the music they’ve collectively loved since their teenage years - cutting straight to the jugular in true quintessential death metal style.
After recording and releasing their critically acclaimed third full-length, 2020’s ‘Misanthropic Breed’ during the pandemic, this time around getting back into the studio properly was paramount. And while ‘Misanthropic Breed’ was recorded at the quartet’s rehearsal space where the band produce all their demos, when it came to recording ‘Necro’, LIK upped sticks to record at NBS Studio (a.k.a. Necromorbus Studio) in Söderfors, two hours from their home city.
Once again using uber-producer Lawrence Mackrory (Meshuggah, Katatonia, High Parasite, Decapitated), all the music was recorded live over a three-day period, before Tomas headed to Uppsala to record his vocals at Lawrence’s Rorysound Studios. Mackrory has worked with LIK - whose name translates to ‘corpse’ in Swedish - since their 2015 debut ‘Mass Funeral Evocation’ and throughout their Metal Blade Records’ career that started with 2018’s ‘Carnage’.
Within ‘Necro’s 10-tracks, LIK – completed by Niklas “Nille” Sandin (guitar), Chris Barkensjö (drums), and Joakim Antman (bass) – have created a seamless album, diverse in tempo but without losing any of their blood-soaked intensity and relentless in-your-face-attitude listeners have come to expect.
CD jewel case version
Tracklisting:
1. Deceased
2. War Praise
3. They
4. Worms Inside
5. Morgue Rat
6. Shred into Pieces
7. In Ruins
8. The Stockholm Massacre
9. Fields of Death
10. Rotten Inferno
