ZT: Obviously with everything going on in the world you haven’t had the chance to take songs from the album on the road. He has such a cool and wicked approach to death metal and he always comes up with best suitable artwork for our stuff. Who came up with the ideas behind it and how did you chose which artist to use?Ĭhris: It’s the genius Mark Riddick. ZT: The artwork for Misanthropic Breed is certainly eye-catching and keeps in theme with the old-school death metal vibe. For example, we co-wrote the lyrics for the song ‘Wolves’ in the studio.
Tomas also writes lyrics and we often send lyrics back and forth to either finish them or continue on them if we get stuck sometimes. I wrote most of the lyrics this time and I get my influences from dark and sinister sources which varies in what the subjects might be. I get my influences from dark and sinister sources which varies in what the subjects might be.Ĭhris: Simply just being more in that darkened mode so to speak. What were your intentions and thinking behind your ideas for the lyrics when writing the album? ZT: The lyrics for Misanthropic Breed have taken on an even darker more sinister edge to them.
#Old school deathmetal movie#
I can get ideas for riffs by watching a movie and the soundtrack is killer you know.
I get inspired by good music in general, it has always been like that for me. ZT: Lik are heavily inspired by the old-school Swedish death metal days of Dismember and Entombed but what other genres or bands personally inspired you to get into metal?Ĭhris: For me personally it was Kiss, Slayer, Metallica, Twisted Sister, WASP, Iron Maiden and the list goes on. We felt early on that this is our Left Hand Path outro and at first it wasn’t meant for that song to be last on the album but I said that it has to be the ending track considering that epic, powerful ending and the guys agreed upon it so it turned out great. Tomas wrote it and we both rehearsed it quite a bit before we felt that it fitted into the song. Who came up with the outro and did you realise at the time just how perfect that closes the album out?Ĭhris: I totally agree and yes, we worked back and forth with that ending before entering the studio. To me it really is just the final masterstroke to an already all round masterpiece.
ZT: You end the album with an epic outro on the album closer ‘Becoming’ which has a resemblance to what you would expect to hear at the end of a classic Entombed album. Personally, I like the way all three albums sound in their own way. We are very satisfied with the end result. Compared to Mass Funeral Evocation and Carnage, do you feel that Misanthropic Breed has the complete sound in every aspect?Ĭhris: It’s all on Lawrence (our producer and wizard) regarding the end result sound-wise and he wanted to make it the best so far in that sense. ZT: You certainly have captured the pure old-school Swedish death metal sound on Misanthropic Breed but you have also made it sound very modern and new. The only goal in general when writing a LiK album is that we ourselves feel that we are satisfied so that we can live with it, so to speak, but yeah it turned out great in every aspect. How has the reaction been towards the album from your perspective and have you achieved the goals you set out when the whole writing process began?Ĭhris: Thank you I’m happy you like it and the fact that it is your favourite of 2020 is amazing, thanks. The reactions have been great and so far I’d say it’s the most well received album by far. ZT: ‘Misanthropic Breed’ was the third full-length album to be released by LiK back in September of last year, which for me personally was my favourite album of 2020. After releasing one of the albums of the year in 2020 with ‘Misanthropic Breed‘, ZT’s Harvey Radford had a quick chat to LiK drummer Chris Barkensjö to discuss the album and to look ahead to 2021.
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