(Today we bring you Zoltar‘s review of the recently released third album by the Swedish death metal band Disrupted.)

There’s a good reason why Lik got signed to Metal Blade Records a few years back, and no, it hasn’t anything to do with both their guitar players joining respectively Katatonia and Bloodbath. No, if on the surface their classic down-to-earth approach to SweDeath may not look and sound that much different from the 7,564 Entombed clones popping out here and there (although it should be said that their main influence remains Dismember but I digress), underneath the fat layers of HM-2 effects pedals and downtuned guitar, they had, one could say, class. Yep, that extra-but-fuck-I-can’t-really-put-my-finger-on-it-although-it’s-here element, that Midas Touch if you will, that set them apart. Or maybe they just had better songs?

Off Ludvika in the dead center of the country, the very same little town where Peter Tägtgren’s Abyss studio is located, Disrupted have the same problem, so to speak. To those of the outside, they’ll probably look like another bunch of dudes pretending it’s 1993 all over again who hired Daniel Liljekvist back in 2018 right after he had left his drum stool in Katatonia (them again) to get some attention. Especially since their early material – 2014’s Heavy Death EP and the equally imaginatively-titled Morbid Death three years later – didn’t exactly set the world on fire. Continue reading »