– April 2nd, 2025 –
Necro Full-Size Nears Its April 18th Launch On Metallic Blade Data
Watch LIK’s “Morgue Rat” HERE
“Morgue Rat” is the most recent single from Swedish dying steel behemoths, LIK. The monitor, which options visitor vocals by Linnea Landstedt (Tyranex, Ice Age), seems on the band’s impending fourth full-length album, Necro, set for launch on April 18th through Metallic Blade Data.
Photograph by Michaela Barkensjö
Feedback vocalist/guitarist Tomas Åkvik, “The crushing ‘Morgue Rat,’ a music partly impressed by notorious Californian necrophiliac Karen Greenlee, options the demonic vocal skills of Linnea Landstedt. It’s a heavy, groovy music a few mortician who can’t preserve her fingers away from the useless. It’s additionally our first monitor ever with clean-ish guitars.”
Watch LIK‘s “Morgue Rat” video HERE.
Watch LIK‘s beforehand launched video for “Warfare Reward” HERE.
Inside Necro‘s ten tracks, LIK – whose title interprets to “corpse” in Swedish – has created a seamless album, various in tempo however with out dropping any of their blood-soaked depth and relentless in-your-face-attitude listeners have come to anticipate. There are twists and turns that preserve LIK on a progressive path with out straying from their old-school trademark sounds impressed by the godfathers Dismember, At The Gates and, after all, Entombed.
Necro is the musical equal of a basic shock-horror film that’s drenched in blood and gore and full of over-the-top extremities. Delve past the zombified cowl artwork created by Stockholm-based tattooist and artist Jens Olsson (Ink Fanatics), LIK‘s Necro serves as a reminder of simply how particular and thrilling the style is: full of blood-curdling fantasy tales about battle, dying, zombies, world apocalypse, and homicide all stacked with disgustingly-good rotten riffs.
Necro was recorded at NBS Studio (AKA Necromorbus Studio) in Söderfors, two hours from the band’s dwelling metropolis. As soon as once more utilizing uber-producer Lawrence Mackrory (Meshuggah, Katatonia, Excessive Parasite, Decapitated), all music was recorded dwell over a three-day interval, earlier than Åkvik headed to Uppsala to document his vocals at Mackrory’s Rorysound Studios. Mackrory has labored with LIK since their 2015 debut Mass Funeral Evocation and all through their Metallic Blade Data’ profession that began with 2018′s Carnage. It’s clear upon first hear that with Necro, the quartet have produced a few of the finest work of their decade-plus lengthy profession.
Along with Linnea Landstedt, Necro options visitor appearances by Nick Holmes (Paradise Misplaced, Massacre), and Lawrence Mackrory (F.Okay.Ü.).
The document shall be launched on CD and digital codecs in addition to vinyl within the following colour variants:
• 180g Black
• Tombstone Gray Blue Marbled
• Darkish Sky Pink Marbled (Ltd. 500)
• Clear Violet Blue Marbled (Ltd. 300)
• Lilac/Blood Pink Splatter (Ltd. 300)
• Lilac Blackdust (Ltd. 200)
• Violet Purple Splatter (Ltd. 200)
• Coffin Purple Black Splatter (Ltd. 300)
Discover pre-orders at: metalblade.com/lik
LIK Reside:
5/23/2025 Maryland Deathfest – Baltimore, MD
5/28/2025 Kulturhuset – Stockholm, SE *Necro Launch Present*
6/14/2025 Czech Deathfest – Cerveny Kostelec, CZ
7/02/2025 Rockmaraton Competition – Dunaújváros, HU
8/07/2025 Rock The Park 2025 @ Parksnäckan — Uppsala, SE w/ The Black Dahlia Homicide
8/15/2025 Summer time Breeze – Dinkelsbühl, DE
8/30/2025 Malmö Bloodbath – Malmö, SE
9/26/2025 Legend Metalfest – Trondheim, NO
10/24-25/2025 Odense Metalfest – Odense, DK
“This album is fucking crushing! Every little thing else is shit!” – Nick Holmes, Paradise Misplaced/Massacre
“Vicious and uncooked, sick and heavy, good embodiment of the brutality of basic Swedish dying steel.” – Matti Kärki, Dismember
“That is non-processed dying steel magic, similar to it was meant to be. It brings me proper again to the college bus within the ’90s, the place it appeared I found a brand new killer band from Stockholm each week in my Walkman, on my option to faculty. It typically made me wish to arise and bang my head off whereas in movement and rip the bus seats to shreds. But LIK fills a void in at present’s dying steel scene and sound surprisingly refreshing. This time round, other than the pace, in addition they deliver additional sludgy heaviness to the necro desk. An absolute will need to have!” – Björn “Velocity” Strid, Soilwork
“I acquired to listen to the brand new album Necro from my mates in LIK and what a ferocious onslaught I used to be offered with! Relentless pounding á la Stockholm Metropolis with the proper nods to the heydays of dying steel!” – Jonas Renkse, Katatonia
“The essence of Swedish dying steel – LIK at their most interesting! Necro units the style’s benchmark for 2025 with killer hook traces, chopping leads, and riffs straight outta hell!” – Ben Liepelt, Endseeker
LIK:
Tomas Åkvik – vocals, guitar
Niklas “Nille” Sandin – guitar
Chris Barkensjö – drums
Joakim Antman – bass
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