Photo by Michaela Barkensjö
LIK, the modern-day purveyors of classic Swedish death metal, gloriously return to action with a video for “They.” Taken from their latest full-length Necro, which was released last April via Metal Blade Records, the video was directed by the band’s own Joakim Antman.
Watch LIK’s video for “They” HERE.
LIK will return to stages next March when they kick off the Necrofeeling Over Europe Tour 2026! The band comments, “In March and April we drag Necro across European soil — a procession of stinking, rotten, and unspeakable volume. Join the march or be buried beneath it.”
LIK Live – Necrofeeling Over Europe 2026:
3/26/2026 Brewgata – Oslo, NO
3/27/2026 Östgötaslakt – Linköping, SE
3/29/2026 Monument – Gothenburg, SE
3/31/2026 Voodoo – Warsaw, PL
4/01/2026 Zascianek – Krakow, PL
4/03/2026 Kabinet Muz – Brno, CZ
4/04/2026 Modra Vopize – Prague, CZ
4/05/2026Dark Easter MetalMeeting – Munich, DE
4/07/2026 Urban Spree – Berlin, DE
4/09/2026 Stengade – Copenhagen, DK
4/11/2026 BD Riots – Borlänge, SE
4/12/2026 Kollektivet Livet – Stockholm, SE
Other festivals:
8/14-15/2026 Blasphemy Festival – Slnečné Skaly, SK
Purchase tickets, vinyl, CDs, and shirts at metalblade.com/lik.
Standing loud and proud over so many imitators, LIK’s Necro is the musical equivalent of a classic shock-horror movie that’s drenched in blood and gore and packed with over-the-top extremities. Delve beyond the zombified cover art created by Stockholm-based tattooist and artist Jens Olsson (Ink Fanatics), Necro serves as a reminder of just how special and exciting the genre is: packed with blood-curdling fantasy stories about war, death, zombies, world apocalypse, and murder all stacked with disgustingly-good rotten riffs.
Once again using uber-producer Lawrence Mackrory (Meshuggah, Katatonia, High Parasite, Decapitated), all music was recorded live over a three-day period, before vocalist/guitarist Tomas Åkvik headed to Uppsala to record his vocals at Mackrory’s Rorysound Studios. Mackrory has worked with LIK – whose name translates to “corpse” in Swedish – since their 2015 debut Mass Funeral Evocation and throughout their Metal Blade Records’ career that started with 2018’s Carnage.
Within Necro‘s ten tracks, LIK has created a seamless album, diverse in tempo but without losing any of their blood-soaked intensity and relentless in-your-face-attitude listeners have come to expect. There are twists and turns that keep LIK on a progressive path without straying from their old-school trademark sounds inspired by the godfathers Dismember, At The Gates and, of course, Entombed.
“We didn’t really want to repeat ourselves, but of course we wanted the LIK sound,” explains Åkvik on the writing trajectory of Necro.
“This album is fucking crushing! Everything else is shit!” – Nick Holmes, Paradise Lost/Bloodbath
“Vicious and raw, sick and heavy, perfect embodiment of the brutality of classic Swedish death metal.” – Matti Kärki, Dismember
“This is non-processed death metal magic, just like it was meant to be. It brings me right back to the school bus in the ’90s, where it seemed I discovered a new killer band from Stockholm every week in my Walkman, on my way to school. It often made me want to stand up and bang my head off while in motion and rip the bus seats to shreds. Yet LIK fills a void in today’s death metal scene and sound surprisingly refreshing. This time around, aside from the speed, they also bring extra sludgy heaviness to the necro table. An absolute must have!” – Björn “Speed” Strid, Soilwork
“I got to hear the new album Necro from my friends in LIK and what a ferocious onslaught I was presented with! Relentless pounding á la Stockholm City with the perfect nods to the heydays of death metal!” – Jonas Renkse, Katatonia
“The essence of Swedish death metal – LIK at their finest! Necro sets the genre’s benchmark for 2025 with killer hook lines, cutting leads, and riffs straight outta hell!” – Ben Liepelt, Endseeker
LIK:
Tomas Åkvik – vocals, guitar
Niklas “Nille” Sandin – guitar
Chris Barkensjö – drums
Joakim Antman – bass
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