Lik (band)
| Lik | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| origin | Stockholm , Sweden |
| Genre (s) | Death metal |
| founding | 2014 |
| Current occupation | |
| Chris Barkensjö | |
Electric guitar , now also electric bass
|
Niklas "Nille" Sandin |
Vocals, electric guitar |
Tomas Åkvik |
Electric bass |
Joakim "Myre" Antman |
| former members | |
Electric bass |
Mathias Blom |
Electric bass (live) |
Johan Risberg |
Lik is a Swedish death metal band from Stockholm that was formed in 2014.
history
The band was formed in 2014. In October of the following year, the group released their debut album via War Anthem Records under the name Mass Funeral Evocation . She then signed a record deal with Metal Blade Records , which resulted in the release of the second album Carnage in early May 2018 . It was recorded under the direction of Lawrence Mackrory at Dugout Studios in Uppsala . As an assistant sound engineer was Daniel Berg beach was active. In their career, the band has performed live at the Finnish Tuska Open Air Metal Festival , the Slovenian Metalays and the Swedish Gefle Metal Festival, among others. She also shared the live stage with groups like Overtorture and Swallow the Sun.
style
Peter Mildner from Metal.de assigned Mass Funeral Evocation to Death Metal and classified the album between the releases of Dismember , Evocation and Demonical . In the songs a “love for double lead melodies” in the style of Iron Maiden can also be seen . The variability of the songs manifests itself mainly in occasional changes in the game speed. Rock Hard's Patrick Schmidt wrote in his review of Carnage that the album is comparable to classic death metal releases by other Swedish bands like Carnage and Nihilist , although the group also tries to keep the music up to date. In addition to occasional dismember parallels, which would be enriched by original and melodic solos , you always approach the D-beat . In the same issue, Mandy Malon interviewed Niklas Sandin, who stated that Dismember is, among other things, an important influence on the group. Lik's lyrics were influenced by a wide variety of things, in terms of content he compared them to horror films from the 1980s, which were scary and paired with a bit of humor. Katrin Riedl from Metal Hammer also reviewed the album and stated that the music is still “a bit rough” than that of a group like Demonical. All in all, the music consists “of brutal old school death, without foregoing a certain melodic lining”, whereby one usually alternates between aggressive and melodic passages. Marc Halupczok added that he particularly noticed the catchiness, the authenticity and the variety. Matthias Weckmann also found the music to be authentic, but not very innovative, although he heard similarities to Entombed .
Discography
- 2014: Behold the Beheaded (demo, self-release)
- 2015: Mass Funeral Evocation (album, War Anthem Records )
- 2018: Carnage (Album, Metal Blade Records )
Individual evidence
- ^ Lik (5) - Mass Funeral Evocation. Discogs , accessed March 4, 2019 .
- ↑ Bio. metalblade.com, accessed March 4, 2019 .
- ^ Peter Mildner: Lik - Mass Funeral Evocation. Metal.de , accessed on March 16, 2019 .
- ↑ Patrick Schmidt: Lik . Carnage. In: Rock Hard . No. 372 , May 2018, p. 97 .
- ↑ Mandy Malon: Lik . Cocktails, chilli sauces and a pinch of salt. In: Rock Hard . No. 372 , May 2018, p. 76 .
- ^ Katrin Riedl, Marc Halupczok, Matthias Weckmann: Lik . Carnage. In: Metal Hammer . May 2018, p. 96 .