Sweden is unquestionably the place to buy all of your metallic hardcore wants. There’s simply one thing within the water that produces an entire completely different stage of crushage. Witness Swedish quintet Obstruktion doing most injury in simply three temporary minutes on new monitor, “Sow Concern.” The monitor comes from their upcoming second full-length, The Finish Takes Type, and is accompanied right here by a grainy, high-contrast efficiency video that completely matches the track’s uncooked, grinding DM-influenced hardcore. It’s like probably the most brutal funeral dirge you’ve ever heard, a pummeling mixture of melancholy and abject rage.
The Finish Takes Type was recorded by Ragnar Östberg at East Hill Audio in Höör, Sweden, combined by Joe Clayton at No Studio in Manchester, UK, and mastered by Ulf Blomberg at HoboRec, Skurup, Sweden. It’s set for launch on Might 28 on vinyl and digitally, by way of Suicide Information. Place your preorder right here.
The band presents this concerning the track and video:
“‘Sow Concern’ represents one of many darkest and most intense items we’ve ever written, each musically and thematically. With this monitor, we’ve pushed ourselves to discover heavier, extra unsettling soundscapes, diving deeper into the shadows of our inventive course of. Nevertheless, doing so with a punk strategy. Thematically, the track tackles the manipulation of worry—the way it’s weaponized to regulate and divide folks. Capturing the music video with our pal Andreas Ljungman at Kulturlagret in Göteborg introduced that ambiance to life in a visceral manner. These two days had been chaotic and electrical, completely capturing the essence of the monitor.”
