“I LIKE DEATH metal to be brutal and fast, so I usually write those kinds of tracks.”
Bloodbath guitarist Tomas Åkvik is matter-of-factly getting into why his three compositions on the long-running death metal supergroup’s new Survival of the Sickest full-length (“Zombie Inferno,” “Malignant Maggot Therapy” and “Environcide”) arguably push the speed-barrier more so than his bandmates’ nevertheless grotesque contributions. “I’m a raging person,” he chuckles when Guitar World presses him on the point. What’s most surprising about this ferociously paced feat, though, is that Åkvik even brought the songs to Bloodbath in the first place.
While the Swedish guitarist has been riffing with Bloodbath as their live guitarist
