‘Upprepade bombregn, I blodiga räder, Systematisk terror, Mot befolkningen I städer’ (Eliminering/Kolonisering) / ‘Repeated bombardments, In bloody rows, Systematic terror, Against the urban population’ (Elimination/Colonization)

Hot on the heels of their split EP with Destruct, Svaveldioxid (Sulphur Dioxide) celebrate their tenth anniversary with a savage sixth album, Misär O.D (Misery O.D).  The Stockholm band continue to hone a thoroughly distinctive onslaught, ferociously melding Sweden’s varying hardcore traditions.  For while their rhythmic dynamics are firmly grounded in the käng idiom, their guitars are notably more indebted to the thick buzzsaw riffage of early 1990’s death metal in the vein of Entombed.

Meanwhile, the echo drenched, semi-shouted Swedish vocals confront the rising tide of authoritarianism and the military violence being inflicted on civilian populations by zealots of every hue.  As it careers from the searing Inre Uppror (Inner Rebellion) to the seething riffage of Religiös Ondska (Religious Evil), not to mention the searing solos that ignite amid the carnage of Eliminering/Kolonisering (Elimination/Colonization) and Mänskliga Facklor (Human Torches), it is a powerfully intense barrage.