Forked Tongues: Riket 2026 We all love a bit of proper Swedish death metal, and Riket are delivering the latest blast. The long-grinding four-piece just disinterred their first full sonic slab. 2026, this month. Coming through Black Lion Records, it is a beast, we can tell you! (In fact, we…

Feeding Frenzy: Riket – 2026   Riket – 2026 Release date: 10th April, 2026||Genre: Death metal||Label: Black Lion Records Long awaited, the debut full-length from Riket is finally here Proper. Swedish. Death metal. All sung in Swedish. A solid album’s worth of material from Riket may seem well overdue, but,…

Riket – 1948: Att döda ett barn Swedish death metal unit, Riket, unleash their new, darkly historic music video. SDM first came across Riket, somewhat unexpectedly, at a Balkan Metal Meet event, in Tirana, Albania, a couple of years ago. They impressed us there, so it’s great to so them…

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…