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YOU’LL NEVER SEE… (CENTURY MEDIA, 1992) A killer song from a killer album by a killer band. You’ll Never See… is the second album by the legendary Swedish death metal band Grave. Eight tracks of catchy, in-your-face, no-frills death metal. As was typical of the era, there’s a slight anti-Christian edge to the lyrics. Even …
OPVS CONTRA NATVRAM (NUCLEAR BLAST, 2022) Vrsvs Christvs (yes, with u’s as v’s) is an absolutely stunning song by Behemoth. It’s from their twelfth studio album and stands out from the album’s faster tracks — making its impact as the closing song even more powerful. The song also has a music video, and let me …
ULTRAVIOLENCE (INTERSCOPE, 2014) Brooklyn Baby is a song by Lana Del Rey from her third studio album. While the album is packed with memorable songs, this one is my favorite. The lyrics offer Del Rey’s sharp, satirical take on New York’s hipster subculture — a world that, admittedly, isn’t all that familiar to me. But …
STOMP 442 (ELEKTRA, 1995) This track is truly kick-ass and it’s one of my favorite tracks by Anthrax. It’s from their Stomp 442 album, which I don’t think is one of their most well-known releases — or at least it didn’t get great reviews when it first came out. For a while, it was also …
ACTIVE: 2012- Firespawn could be called a Swedish death metal supergroup, after all its members are known from other killer local bands. LG Petrov from Entombed was their vocalist until his far too early passing in 2021. If you ask me, his performance in Firespawn was even stronger than on the later Entombed albums: much …
ACTIVE: 1988- One of the legendary Swedish death metal bands and originators of the “Swedish sound”, so to speak. I loved this band in the nineties, but for some reason pretty much stopped following them when their singer Jörgen Sandström left the band and took over bass duties in Entombed in 1995. I was really …
ACTIVE: 1981- They are one of the Big Four of thrash. I’ve been a fan since 1988, when I heard their Among the Living album which was released a year before. Their next album, State of Euphoria, and the 1990 release Persistence of Time are still my favorites from this band. I was always fascinated …
ANIMALIZE (MERCURY, 1984) In 1984, KISS released an album that I still consider one of their best. What can I say — I was nine years old at the time. Even though my favorite album has changed over the years, Animalize — and especially its second track (yes, Heaven’s on Fire) — remains one of …
ACTIVE: 1999- Aeon is a Swedish death metal band. Right now, I consider them one of the best death metal bands out there. What’s more, they are one of the best bands that are relatively open about their anti-religious approach. For a long time, I thought that among “mainstream” bands, only Behemoth and Deicide were …
RESET (NUCLEAR BLAST, 2024) Musta Piste is one of the best tracks on Reset, the eleventh studio album by the Finnish industrial techno metal act Turmion Kätilöt. And yeah, that’s pretty much it — no further explanation needed. About the sketch, though: the title, which translates to “Black Point,” also appears in Special Feature Vol. …