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Svaveldioxid Mental Skyttegrav flexi 7″
Every time you think of the Scandi-beat craze that took over the world twenty years ago (after taking over the world twenty years earlier, of course), you drop the needle on a tasty-ass platter like Mental Skyttgrav and get your ass blown out. Like a rawer incarnation of Powerload-era DISFEAR, Stockholm’s SVAVELDIOXID remains true to form on this flexi (a promo for last year’s Värdselände LP), and delivers a master class in the genre. Vocals delivered like a bloke on a steady diet of glass and depression, riffs for days, and an urgent, bombastic kång assault that never once lets up. This band has been kicking around for nearly a decade, releasing splits and LPs that have mostly flown under the radar. Maybe it’s time fools started paying attention.