Sweden is unquestionably the place to buy all of your metallic hardcore wants. There’s simply one thing within the water that produces a complete completely different degree of crushage. Witness Swedish quintet Obstruktion doing most harm in simply three transient minutes on new observe, “Sow Concern.” The observe comes from their upcoming second full-length, The Finish Takes Kind, and is accompanied right here by a grainy, high-contrast efficiency video that completely matches the tune’s uncooked, grinding DM-influenced hardcore. It’s like essentially the most brutal funeral dirge you’ve ever heard, a pummeling mixture of melancholy and abject rage.
The Finish Takes Kind 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, through Suicide Information. Place your preorder right here.
The band affords this concerning the tune and video:
“‘Sow Concern’ represents one of many darkest and most intense items we’ve ever written, each musically and thematically. With this observe, we’ve pushed ourselves to discover heavier, extra unsettling soundscapes, diving deeper into the shadows of our artistic course of. Nonetheless, doing so with a punk method. Thematically, the tune tackles the manipulation of worry—the way it’s weaponized to manage and divide individuals. Capturing the music video with our buddy Andreas Ljungman at Kulturlagret in Göteborg introduced that environment to life in a visceral method. These two days have been chaotic and electrical, completely capturing the essence of the observe.”
