The Baboon Show sind schon lange kein Geheimtipp mehr. Regelmäßig veröffentlicht die Band sehr gute Platten und auch live ist das schwedische Quartett stets eine Wucht!
Drummer Niclas, welcher ein begnadeter Multiinstrumentalist ist, hat sich die Zeit genommen uns seine zehn Lieblingsplatten vorzustellen.
1Iron Maiden – Somewhere In Time (1986)
The greatest album of all time, all genres. I have always been weak for melodies and twin guitar harmonies. Iron Maiden is my number one favourite band and I have pretty much everything they’ve done on vinyl. Somewhere In Time has it all. Great epic songs and melodies, amazing song writing and they all play like their lives depend on it. This is one of the albums I can always listen to, no matter what mood I’m in. And I never get tired of it. Pure magic from beginning to end!
2Grave – Into The Grave (1991)
I grew up as a metal kid and I listened to a lot of heavy metal and thrash metal. In the late eighties I found a lot of faster and heavier stuff like Sepultura, Kreator and stuff like that. This was also the early days of death metal and I lived far upnorth Sweden in a small town so I was a bit isolated from the early death metal scene that was growing in the bigger cities like Stockholm and Göteborg in the south. But that all changed when one of my aunts started dating a guy from the Swedish island Gotland. His son was a good friend of the guys in Grave and suddenly one day I got a package in my mail box. It was two demo cassettes (Sexual Mutilation, Anatomia Corporis Humani, both released 1989) and a T-shirt with Grave. I had never heard anything like it. It was the most brutal and raw shit I had ever heard and this was my first contact with the early Swedish underground death metal scene with bands like Grave, Entombed, Dismember, Unleashed, Edge Of Sanity, Tiamat, to name a few bigger names. Their debut album Into The Grave has a special place in my heart as they were my introduction to the underground scene which I later on became very much part of myself.
3Hexenhaus – The Edge Of Eternity (1990)
As I already told you I was growing up in the north of Sweden, far away from where all the live shows took place. Me and my childhood friend Mikael Granqvist (later on we played together in the band The Moaning) were always in search for new stuff to listen to. He had a cousin (Simon Johansson (nowadays in Wolf, Soilwork, Tiamat)) who was already then a good guitar player and he also lived in our small town Boden. Simon introduced us to the Swedish technical thrash metal band Hexenhaus and we just loved it. Simon also knew one of the guitar players in Hexenhaus. He lived in Stockholm and his name was Mike Wead (now playing with King Diamond and Mercyful Fate!!!) and we were surprised to hear that the amazingly skilled guitar player Mike Wead also came from our little town Boden. This was a big thing for us and an inspiration to pick up the guitars. In 1990 we took the 3-4 hours bus ride to Umeå to watch the tour called Active Thrashes Scandinavia with Hexenhaus, Mezzrow, Kazjurol and the by then small local support act called Meshuggah (the rest is history) Hehehe! The Edge Of Eternity is the second album from Hexenhaus and it’s a very important one in my musical upbringing.
4Helloween – Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part II (1988)
The opening track Eagle Fly Free is one of the anthems of my youth. I like all eras of Helloween, some albums more than others of course, but the two Keeper Of The Seven Keys albums are really something special. Germany had so many great bands in the eighties and almost everything released by Noise Records at that time was amazing stuff. Helloween were one of the main pioneers to what we today call power metal and it’s so cool to see that bands all over the world are still heavily influenced by them. Just check out the amazing Japanese metal band Lovebites. Super great and epic music full of Helloween influences. So fucking great! R.I.P. Ingo Schwichtenberg and can we also talk about the great bass playing of Markus Grosskopf. People never mention him when talking about great bass players. In my opinion, to this day, he’s one of the best bass players in the world.
5Slayer – South Of Heaven (1988)
This needs no introduction. It’s fucking Slayer! What stands out extra here though are two things. First of all Dave Lombardo’s drumming. This is my favourite album ever when it comes to drumming. Dave is playing insanely good on this album. Noone can play like he does here. He’s just amazing. End of story! The second thing is the song writing. It’s more dynamic than the previous albums and I love that. R.I.P. Jeff Hanneman. He wrote most of the music on this album. ”There is no heaven without a hell”. What an album!
6Bathory – Blood Fire Death (1988)
This Swedish black metal masterpiece is Bathory’s fourth album. I love all the first six albums but this one has everything that I love with black metal. I get that mighty elevated feeling when I listen to it, especially the title track. Truly epic! Quorthon was a musical genius. Unfortunately he died in 2004 way too young, only 38 years old, from a congenital heart defect. I live only a twenty minutes walk from his grave and I go there a couple of times every year to pay my respect. Metal fans from all over the world who visit Stockholm go to his grave and put coins, guitar picks, photos, black metal albums and other things there next to his stone. I’ve seen coins there from Asia, North America and pretty much all corners of the world. No words can describe how much Quorthon and Bathory have made an influential impact on the whole black/death metal scene worldwide, and still do. Bathory are as important as Venom and Hellhammer/Celtic Frost. And check out the cover artwork. Amazing! Hail the hordes of Bathory!
7Oasis – Definitely Maybe (1994)
In 1994 I went for the first time to the festival Hultsfredsfestivalen here in Sweden. It was the biggest Swedish music festival in the 90’s and early 2000’s and I went there with friends every summer from 1994 and on. I think I was there eleven times. In 1994 I was a metal head but I also listened to punk and hardcore. A friend asked me if I wanted to join him to go watch a new fresh British band he had heard on the radio. I joined him but I didn’t expect much. It was one of the first shows ever for Oasis outside of the UK. They were young and loud and I was totally blown away by the attitude that came from that stage. A loud distorted wall of sound hit my ears and I had never heard anything like it. Oasis opened up a whole new world of music to me and I started to listen to lots of different stuff outside the world of metal and punk/hc. I still collect their stuff. I love their whole discography but that first album has a special place in my heart. What a debut!
8Bad Religion – Suffer (1988)
As a teenager I also had my first contact with punk rock. Someone (I can’t remember exactly who it was) played me cassettes/mix tapes with bands like Ramones, Misfits and Bad Religion. I had heard of Ramones and I had seen Metallica wearing Misfits T-shirts on photos in metal magazines like Kerrang and Metal Hammer. I started to listen to all sorts of punk but Bad Religion quickly became one of my favourites. They had both things I liked, the had great melodies and they played fast. Suffer was the first album i heard with them and it’s still my favourite. I have all their albums except for their Christmas Songs album. I can’t stand christmas music, no matter who’s playing it! Haha! Bad Religion are also one of those bands you can listen to when you’re down and everything feels hopeless. They save the situation and you get hope again. We have met the Bad Religion guys several times on the road with The Baboon Show when we’ve played the same festivals. Super friendly people and they are still a great band!
9Breach – It’s Me God (1997)
These guys are old friends of mine from the northern Swedish punk and hardcore scene. In the very early 90’s they were in punk bands like Illbutts and Skümback and they were part of building up an active underground scene in the north. I started to go to many local gigs in Luleå (45 minutes bus ride from my hometown Boden) and saw a lot of cool young bands that later on became bands like Fireside, Refused, Raised Fist, Randy and Breach. I used to play guitar in a punk band together with Erik, one of the guitar players of Breach and we were hanging out pretty much. Sometimes I followed Breach on the road hanging around and helping out with stuff. They released some ep’s and their first fullength album and I really liked what they did. But it was with their second album It’s Me God they really blew my mind. After they had recorded it Erik played it to me and I just loved what I was hearing. It was so raw and dark that I could hardly believe my ears. Heavy disharmonic hardcore with some metal and indie rock influences. I still listen to this album pretty often and I also got the creepy skull from the cover tattooed on my left arm. If the word powerful was an album, it would be Breach – It’s Me God!
10Dischange – Seeing Feeling Bleeding (1993)
Swedish D-beat greatness and total Discharge and Motörhead worship. We have a lot of great D-beat hardcore punk bands from this country. Dischange/Meanwhile, Wolfpack/Wolfbrigade, Anti Cimex, Asocial, Uncurbed, No Security, Disfear, but this 1993 Dischange album is standing out in its simplicity and straight on rawness. Seeing Feeling Bleeding was their only fullength album and I’m happy I got to see them live in 1994. Later on they changed their name to Meanwhile but continued blasting their D-beat madness.
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