Freak Kitchen is an
experimental rock
Experimental rock, also called avant-rock, is a subgenre of rock music that pushes the boundaries of common composition and performance technique or which experiments with the basic elements of the genre. Artists aim to liberate and innovate, with ...
band from
Gothenburg, Sweden, formed in 1992.
History
Freak Kitchen's style of music is influenced by many genres besides traditional heavy metal, ranging from
jazz
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to
pop. The band described their third album as "A corny little heavy-pop-rock-Latin-world-jazz-avant-garde-metal-blues-record straight from hell!".
The album "Land of the Freaks", which was released in late October 2009, features Indian inspiration and the band is also joined by the two Indian musicians
V. Selvaganesh and Neyveli S Radhakrishna on several tracks.
The lyrics of Freak Kitchen often contain humor and criticism of
capitalist society, conformity,
racism
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and the attitude of
major labels.
Frontman Mattias Eklundh has a reputation as a guitar virtuoso, acknowledged by Guitar Player Magazine for instance, and live shows often contain parts where Eklundh plays the guitar using several foreign objects such as a vibrating
dildo
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. Eklundh has also released four solo albums, ''
Sensually Primitive
''Sensually Primitive'' is a full-length studio album released under the pseudonym Mr Libido by Mattias Eklundh of the progressive metal band Freak Kitchen. The album was released in 1996 after being recorded in mid to late 1995, as the artist stat ...
'' (1996) (under the pseudonym Mr Libido), ''Freak Guitar'' (1999), ''Freak Guitar - The Road Less Traveled'' (2004) and ''
Freak Guitar: The Smorgasbord'' (2013).
They also co-headlined Fuel Great Indian Rock 2008 alongside
Sahg
Sahg is a three-piece Norwegian hard rock/doom metal band formed in Bergen in the summer of 2004, by key figures in the metal scene of their country: Tom Cato Visnes ( King ov Hell), Einar Selvik ( Kvitrafn), Olav Iversen and Thomas Tofthagen ...
and
Satyricon
The ''Satyricon'', ''Satyricon'' ''liber'' (''The Book of Satyrlike Adventures''), or ''Satyrica'', is a Latin work of fiction believed to have been written by Gaius Petronius, though the manuscript tradition identifies the author as Titus Petr ...
.
Their album, ''Cooking with Pagans'', was released in 2014, with the first single, "Professional Help" released in November.
The 2018 album ''Confusion to the Enemy'' contains a song with Swedish lyrics, "Så Kan Det Gå När Inte Haspen Är På", that roughly translates to "That's What Happens When You Don't Take Precautions".
Members
Current
*
Mattias "IA" Eklundh – vocals, guitar (1992–present)
* Christer Örtefors – bass guitar, vocals (2000–present)
* Björn Fryklund – drums (2000–present)
Previous
* Christian Grönlund – bass guitar, vocals (1992–2000)
* Joakim Sjöberg – drums (1992–2000)
Discography
Albums
* ''Appetizer'' (Thunderstruck Productions, 1994)
* ''Spanking Hour'' (Thunderstruck Productions, 1996)
* ''Freak Kitchen'' (Thunderstruck Productions, 1998)
* ''Dead Soul Men'' (Thunderstruck Productions, 2000)
* ''Move'' (Thunderstruck Productions, 2002)
* ''Organic'' (Thunderstruck Productions, 2005)
* ''Land of the Freaks'' (Thunderstruck Productions, 2009)
* ''Cooking with Pagans'' (Thunderstruck Productions, 2014)
* ''Confusion to the Enemy'' (Thunderstruck Productions, 2018)
EPs
* ''Junk Tooth'' (1997)
References
External links
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Musical groups established in 1992
Swedish hard rock musical groups
Swedish heavy metal musical groups