Tombal interview
Hi! Swedish death metal has become one of the most imitated sounds in underground metal. Before writing a single riff, what convinced you there was still something worth saying within that tradition? Hi! First of all, thank you for inviting us to this interview. I've always been a lover and a true follower of the rawest and most rotten Swedish death metal, the real old-school stuff, and in August 2025 the spark that created Tombal finally came. We definitely don't want to invent anything new, but rather play what I've always listened to since I took my first steps into death metal as a kid, in all its forms, especially the Swedish scene of the '90s. So, we definitely don't want to be innovative, but we want to play and interpret death metal in our own way, with the sound we love above all: the HM-2. As you can clearly hear, there are many influences ranging from Swedish death metal to old school death metal. Everybody talks about the HM-2, but it's only one ingr...
