Stockholm’s Lik: now available for phoners and emailers

Cover art by Mark Riddick

On September 25th, Stockholm’s Lik will unleash their third full-length, Misanthropic Breed, via Metal Blade Records. The band is now available for phoners about this album, so set up your interview now! Please reply to this email with your desired day/time (see below for time-slots).

Monday Aug. 10-Friday Aug. 14 with Tomas Åkvik (vocals/guitars), Niklas “Nille” Sandin (guitars) ***OR*** Chris Barkensjö (drums)
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**If you’d like to do an emailer, please ask nikki.law@metalblade.com first before sending your questions!**

Sweden has long been held in high regard as one of the hotbeds of global death metal. With Misanthropic Breed – produced, mixed and mastered by Lawrence Mackrory (Obey Mastering) – Lik only add fuel to this fire. “The title of the record is ‘Misanthropic Breed‘, because it describes the world today and the generations that are emerging,” states vocalist/guitarist Tomas Åkvik. “In a way, it’s more applicable than ever with the quote ‘It’s every man for himself’ being so suitable, and it’s also a ‘hidden’ homage to both Dismember and Entombed.”

Far darker in tone and with fewer jokes than included on their previous releases, when it came to lyrical subject matter, the band were influenced partially by movies and books, but most of their inspiration came from looking back at their own catalogue. “The songs are inspired by older Lik songs, and where we could take a new direction from that. Of course there are other bands that we love involved as well, but for example, ‘Female Fatal to the Flesh’ is an evolved take on ‘The Deranged’ from Carnage mixed with ‘Skin Necrosis’ from ‘Mass Funeral Evocation‘ (2015) while ‘The Weird’ is an even more brutal ‘Ghoul’ from the same record. Then there’s ‘Corrosive Survival’, which was inspired by the disaster of Chernobyl, and ‘Morbid Fascination’ is like a Metallica/Entombed/Dismember track which turned out really cool. I think the main inspiration is still drawn from old school death metal, which we think is how death metal should be played.”

For a preview of Misanthropic Breed, the video for the first single, “Decay” (directed by Mathias Blom), can be viewed at: metalblade.com/lik

Lik line-up:
Tomas Åkvik – vocals/guitars
Niklas “Nille” Sandin – guitars
Chris Barkensjö – drums
Joakim “Myre” Antman – bass

Lik online:
https://www.facebook.com/LIKofficial
https://www.instagram.com/lik_official/
https://twitter.com/lik_official