![]() He couldn’t get her voice to sound “metal enough” with the effects in the recording program, so he decided to growl along himself. He copied the speech into Protools and improvised a performance. ![]() “And the words she chose just evoked the darkness of the metal music I love: Entombed, Gojira, At the Gates, Sepultura.” “When I saw her speech, I was very impressed by her passion and outrage,” says Meredith, who sits behind the kit for the New York City metal trio Suaka, via email. “I had so much fun doing this one, I will probably do more.Rolling Stonespoke to the mashup creator, John Mollusk, who drums for New York band Suaka, and he explained he was moved by the speech and thought he could help spread the message through death metal. “Even before the video went viral, my friends were suggesting other speeches to do,” he says. tour next month.īut despite Suaka’s success, Meredith realizes he may now have a new side gig. They’re bringing the Indonesian band Burgerkill to the U.S. The group recently released a new album, Suakatrocity and did an Asian tour. citizens who have lived here for decades - and their music reflects their Asian roots. Meredith grew up in Colorado and now runs a basement studio in Ridgewood, Queens, called Mollusk Studio, but his bandmates are both Indonesian - U.S. In general, genres are for critics musicians just make music they like.”Įven though the video took off, the performance won’t be anything he or Suaka would attempt onstage. It’s like that Viking fury can’t be denied. “I’ve seen soooo many comments, saying, ‘This is not Swedish Death Metal,” Meredith says with a “ha-ha.” “It’s probably more ‘black metal’ maybe but the title is also a nod to her country of origin. The only thing Swedish about this video is Thunberg herself. Oddly, the video has received the most outcry for calling it Swedish death metal - a subgenre popularized by bands like At the Gates and Dark Tranquillity - that’s known more for its melodic guitar leads and guttural vocals. She tweeted, “I have moved on from this climate thing… From now on I will be doing death metal only!!” ![]() On Saturday, Thunberg gave the video a thumbs up. I think humor and can be at least as powerful as anger and outrage, and there is a place for both.” I mean, I have never sung like that before in my life. “But there is an element of satire and levity regarding the tone and the music. “Teen angst can be a powerful and important driving force in society, for instance the Arab Spring,” he says. ![]() So as he digs his pick into his guitar strings, he makes Thunberg’s words like “I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean” sound like something former Immortal frontman Abbath might vomit up on a snow-covered Scandinavian mountaintop. Meredith copied the speech into ProTools and improvised a performance. ![]() So he picked up his sticks and created what became the viral YouTube hit “Greta Thunberg sings Swedish Death Metal.” But he also thought her language would make a killer metal song. Original story: When thrash-metal drummer John Meredith watched teenage climate-change activist Greta Thunberg give her fiery “How dare you?” speech at the UN Climate Action Summit on Monday, he agreed with her message. The single (with new artwork) is available on YouTube, major streaming services and Bandcamp. Update: The death- metal version of Greta Thunberg’s speech is now available as an official single with all proceeds benefiting Greenpeace. ![]()
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