Odense Metalfest 2025 Wrap Pt.1 Slow Dragon Music returned to Denmark’s Odense Metalfest for another fix of Scandinavian metal and hardcore. In 2023, we made our first foray to Odense Metalfest, at Musikhuset Posten (read our wrap article here). Suitably impressed by the community, venue, and excellent lineup, we had…

Forked Tongues: Lik, Necro, and The Sound of Death Sweden’s flag-bearers of original wave melodic death metal recently dropped their next full-length, and it’s another banger! In the midst of the infamous pandemic, Stockholm locals, Lik, somehow dropped one of the most genuine modern death metal albums of our time,…

Lik – War Praise Stockholm death-metallers, Lik, unleash their latest single, War Praise, laying the ground for new album, Necro. It seems like an age since these Swedish heavies dropped their last album, Misanthropic Breed. (see our review here) In fact, it’s been about five years. And we’ve been spinning…

Albums Of The Months 2020 If you’re familiar with the old Slow Dragon Music site, you’ll know what the deal is with Albums Of The Months 2020. For those who don’t, the basic premise is that, instead of a straight up pick of all releases throughout the entire year, we…

Lik – Misanthropic Breed (album) Release date: 25th September 2020||Genre: Death metal||Label: Metal Blade Records It seems like a crows age since the last album from Stockholm death metallers, Lik. However, they had an EP out only last year, an album the year before that, and even a split in…