[Cover photo credit to Michaela Barkensjö]

LIK, a classic Swedish Death Metal band, have returned with their fourth album, Necro, arriving on April 18th, 2025 via Metal Blade Records. Their new album’s zombified cover art was created by Stockholm-based tattooist and artist Jens Olsson (Ink Fanatics).

Necro serves up “blood-curdling fantasy stories about war, death, zombies, world apocalypse, and murder.”

After recording and releasing their third full-length album, 2020’s Misanthropic Breed, during the pandemic, this time around “getting back into the studio properly” was key. Necro was recorded at NBS Studio (AKA Necromorbus Studio) in Söderfors, two hours from their home city.

Once again using Producer Lawrence Mackrory (Meshuggah, Katatonia, High Parasite, Decapitated), all music was recorded live over a three-day period, before vocalist/guitarist Tomas Åkvik headed to Uppsala to record his vocals at Mackrory’s Rorysound Studios.

In advance of the record’s release, Lik has revealed first single, “War Praise.”

Åkvik says of the single:

We had to write this track before we could even start working on the new album. A LIK track that felt just like LIK but with enough new stuff to make it interesting for us. Sadly enough the world is still plagued by wars so we had to write about the horrors of it.

Necro features guest appearances by Nick Holmes (Paradise Lost, Bloodbath), Linnea Landstedt (Tyranex/Ice Age), and Lawrence Mackrory (F.K.Ü.) and will be released in several vinyl variants.

LIK Live:
5/23/2025 Maryland Deathfest – Baltimore, MD
6/14/2025 Czech Deathfest – Cerveny Kostelec, CZ
8/07/2025 Rock The Park 2025 @ Parksnäckan – Uppsala, SE w/ The Black Dahlia Murder
8/15/2025 Dinkelsbühl – Summer Breeze – Dinkelsbühl, DE
9/26/2025 Legend Metalfest – Trondheim, NO
10/24-25/2025 Odense Metalfest – Odense, DK