Sweden is definitely the place to shop for all your metallic hardcore needs. There’s just something in the water that produces a whole different level of crushage. Witness Swedish quintet Obstruktion doing maximum damage in just three brief minutes on new track, “Sow Fear.” The track comes from their upcoming second full-length, The End Takes Form, and is accompanied here by a grainy, high-contrast performance video that perfectly matches the song’s raw, grinding DM-influenced hardcore. It’s like the most brutal funeral dirge you’ve ever heard, a pummeling combination of melancholy and abject rage.
The End Takes Form was recorded by Ragnar Östberg at East Hill Audio in Höör, Sweden, mixed by Joe Clayton at No Studio in Manchester, UK, and mastered by Ulf Blomberg at HoboRec, Skurup, Sweden. It’s set for release on May 28 on vinyl and digitally, via Suicide Records. Place your preorder here.
The band offers this regarding the song and video:
“‘Sow Fear’ represents one of the darkest and most intense pieces we’ve ever written, both musically and thematically. With this track, we’ve pushed ourselves to explore heavier, more unsettling soundscapes, diving deeper into the shadows of our creative process. However, doing so with a punk approach. Thematically, the song tackles the manipulation of fear—how it’s weaponized to control and divide people. Shooting the music video with our friend Andreas Ljungman at Kulturlagret in Göteborg brought that atmosphere to life in a visceral way. Those two days were chaotic and electric, perfectly capturing the essence of the track.”
