(On March 13th FDA Records released Eulogy to Blasphemy, the fourth album by the Swedish death metal band Gluttony, and that motivated Zoltar to arrange the following interview with founding member and guitarist Anders Härén.)
Considering the rather ‘modern’ (for lack of better terms, as this had probably more to do with the average age of the musicians involved than anything else) take on death metal that MY OWN GRAVE had, it was too tempting to some to call them out as posers once the word got out that three quarters of its line-up all of a sudden decided to play it old-school with a full-on HM-2-fueled mindset as GLUTTONY. But if jumping on the SweDeath wagon is one thing, the band’s first proper album Beyond The Veil Of Flesh released back in 2014 was not.
Maybe it had something to do with having a singer (Magnus Ödling) with a more black metal background (the man did front SETHERIAL for fifteen years plus) or the unusually tight rhythmic approach à la VOMITORY, but a cheap DISMEMBER/ENTOMBED throw-off it was not. Twelve years later, the band are releasing their fourth and probably best record to date, Eulogy To Blasphemy, and it was all too tempting to ask their founding member and guitar player Anders Härén why his thirst for the HM-2 hasn’t dried out yet… Continue reading »
