Top 10s for 2008: Mattias Alkberg (The Bear Quartet/MABD)
2008
Black Metal: Behexen, Khold, Arckanum, Abomino Aetadeath, Krypt.
All released this year and all of them better than Darkthrone and Satyricon. Who's new records were great as well.
Straight music (i.e non-black metal) from abroad: Chad Vangaalen, Daniel Martin Moore, Portishead, The Fall, Gang Gang Dance, Robert Forster, Fucked Up, Mogwai, The Cure, Mudhoney, Josephine Foster, Roots Manuva.
I can't remember anymore right now. It was a good year, record-wise at least.
Swedish and not black metal: Dan Lissvik, Paper, PDC, Park Hotell, Vapnet, Hästpojken, Håkan Hellström, Masshysteri, Tristess, Joel Alme, Veronica Maggio, Frida Hyvönen, T(I)NC, TsooL. There are more, but these are the ones I liked the most. Mind you, some I just got and I will grow tired of them.
Records I missed last year that would have made the top five: Michael Dracula and Mayhem.
TV: True Blood, Dead Set, Dexter, The Office, (bits and pieces of) Livet i Fagervik, Survivors.
Movies: Trädälskaren, Stepbrothers.
Thats it really. Haven't seen Let the Right One In, De ofrivilliga yet. And I'm gonna see The Baader Meinhof Complex tonight.
It's been a so-so year. Better than the last one but not good.
I've been listening to Rockabilly and Black Metal for the most part, reading books, writing songs and poetry.
I toured a little with Bröderna Lindgren and played like ten gigs by myself or with others. Recorded some songs with different people. Been fucked over by record companies.
For 2009 I'm gonna make at least one record, hopefully three. Oh, and get a job. Really, it's true.
And not die, again.
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Mattias Alkberg broke up his band MABD earlier this year, but he still plays with The Bear Quartet and has a burgeoning solo career. Expect a new single and album under his own name in 2009.
www.mabd.se
www.thebearquartet.com