To paraphrase William Shakespeare: some bands are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. It would appear that thrown are in the first camp. This quartet’s trajectory has been an impressively steep one, since arriving on the scene in 2019, seemingly as the finished article, before stepping things up with their assured assault of a debut album, excessive guilt, released last August. Predominantly hailing from Stockholm and the surrounding area, thrown’s M.O. was creating a thoroughly modern version of metal, so not the death metal historically associated with their native Sweden. It’s a goal the band – Marcus Lundqvist (vocals), Andreas Malm and Johan Liljeblad (guitars) and Buster Odeholm (drums) – have achieved with their fast and ...