“These are different youngsters. That is simply an accident—simply a few wild punks out elevating hell.”
So goes the road from The Texas Chainsaw Bloodbath 2 that opens Supershitty to the Max!, the debut from Sweden’s well-known rock sons the Hellacopters, based in 1994 by Nicke Andersson alongside a few his ex-roadies in Entombed. That very same yr, some different youngsters who had—nearly by chance—began as a bunch of untamed punks elevating hell after college, had been lastly releasing their debut album, The Ending Quest, after having recorded it over a yr earlier than.
Not like the relative stardom achieved by their Stockholm and Gothenburg countrymen, these youngsters from Nyköping with a slightly bizarre band title by no means actually achieved any form of renown throughout their trajectory as a band, which sadly ended shortly after this extensively ignored (on the time) LP was launched on the soon-to-be-bankrupt Crypta Data.
Nonetheless, what might be misplaced to the ever-shifting sands of time/lesser-visited Encyclopaedia Metallum pages grew to become what can actually be known as a “cult traditional” because the years glided by. It’s usually a silly time period, certain, however that is the form of album that it was created for: one thing launched with zero fanfare, promotion, opinions, suggestions, dwell exhibits to again it up or members that went on to different, extra well-known bands. Nothing. Zilch.
And but, go to any Reddit thread or learn any retrospective evaluate of The Ending Quest and everybody is nearly unanimous relating to its revered standing. Gorement had been distant from the 2 epicenters of the Swedish scene; usually bored with and/or unable to comply with the Skogsberg-produced HM-2 crunch that revolutionized excessive metallic; and boasted a set of influences that included early Paradise Misplaced/On the Gates, German thrash and likeminded anomalies Crypt of Kerberos. Throw in a report label that didn’t actually know what to do with them and a bizarre recording session in Germany with an uninterested “dictator,” and for higher or worse, Gorement and this album had been molded into one thing actually distinctive.
It’s not the quickest or essentially the most brutal. It’s additionally not the slowest or the gnarliest. However identical to its atypical art work (which has a complete story of its personal), The Ending Quest nonetheless stands in a league all its personal to this present day. We reunited guitarist and bandleader Patrik Fernlund, guitarist Daniel Eriksson, vocalist Jimmy Karlsson, bassist Nicklas Lilja and drummer Mattias Berglund to reminisce about days gone. However hey, if it’s as much as them, these days won’t be solely over. Promoters, take notice.
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