I've always been interested in the career of one Rogga Johansson. Well over a decade ago, I discovered Ribspreader, his badass death metal project. To be more specific, it's Swedish death metal. By definition, all of the death metal that Rogga propagates comes out as Swedish death metal, as Rogga is - you guessed it - Swedish. Ribspreader is prototypically Swedish. Everything from the buzzsaw guitar tone to the collar-rattling d-beats screams Swedish. And I'm sick of typing "Swedish."
Anyway, this squib isn't about Ribspreader; it's about the righteous cover of Edge of the Abyss, the third outing from Johansson & Speckmann. At first, I thought I was looking at a demon blessed (?) with a demon dick. Now I can see that it's a demon snaked in a curvilinear corkscrew demon. The whole ordeal is eye-catching (I'm in favor of pooling white with purple). As an aside, buy Edge of the Abyss yesterday if you want your vital organs lanced by brutal-as-fuck death metal. I'm sick of typing "death metal."
PS ~ Rogga Johansson is currently in 31 active bands.
PS II ~ Speckmann is Paul Speckmann of Master fame.
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