Six in Line
First thing I thought about when I saw this band name is my car. It’s a BMW 3 series from 1998 – that’s the actual one in the pic – and it’s got a 2.8 six-in-line engine. I fuckin’ love it. Takes me from A to Dead-Against-a-Tree in about 7 seconds.
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Turns out the band isn’t named after an engine, despite that this would definitely fit its dirty Thrashy style of music. As Adrian, guitarist in the Swedish quintet, explained it to me, he “actually came up with the name thinking of the number of the beast; 666. But nowadays we say that it’s after a type of guitar headstock where the tuners are six in line with each other.” And fuck me, that might just be equally exciting!
Anyfuck, the band’s from Hellsingborg – not Helsingborg – and that’s where they produce Thrash in a comic old-school type of vein. Their interests include ”fast riffs, fast solos, fast vocals, fast drums and big tits”, which if you consider it 100% objectively is really all you need in life. So, these chaps are righteous and they know what counts in life. Therefore we would most-fuckin’-definitely like to introduce you to their shit!
By the way, if that band pic of theirs looks slightly disturbing to you, just be thankful I didn’t opt for another one, involving the root of a dick and lots of chest hair!
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But first, the band’s early development story is rather entertaining and I wouldn’t dare withhold such cheesily written material from you. Here’s what their Facebook states: ”Six In Line is a Thrash Metal / “early Death” / Hardcore Punk (basically crossover) band from Hellsingborg, Sweden. John and Adrian started an Abba Metal crossover tribute project / concept / abstract / brain wave / envisage named Cunt Destroyer, but as soon as Kaptain Nuke proved to them that he could play Slayer’s Blood Red on bass, Cunt Destroyer was put on hold and the three started jamming on Adrian’s riffs. Suddenly this Jonathan dude played some Slayer on guitar when Adrian walked by while wearing his fake glasses making him look like some kind of Buddy Holly wannabe and he immediately knew that he had found his guitar match. Now this guitar guru that Adrian found turned out to know the whereabouts of a mystic shamal known as Irish the Bassmaster aka Frownz Klownz a.k.a. Mattias Matthew McCarron Larsulrichson! John decided to leave “due to personal differences” so we asked two drummers. Our first choice backed down and Hampuss Hansson built a camp behind the drumkit! Kaptain Nuke lost his place as bassist and concentrated on “throat” (like all Hardcore emo bands like to call it) and Matthew joined the band turning the trio into a… five-o.”
Now, at this stage my intel lets me down. What I do know is that two months ago the band was working on recording some new tracks. What I don’t know is whether they’ve by now completed that or not. In any case on new songs has appeared and that’s called Plata o Plomo.
If that rocked your boat – and let’s be honest, it did – then you may want to play some of the other tracks the band have got outstanding. I’ve lined some up below. Just for clarity though, I have no idea whether these other songs are older songs or were produced in the same batch as Plata o Plomo. Just listen, enjoy and give the band some love!
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