Entombed A.D.’s LG Petrov: 1972 – 2021
During Entombed’s first trip to London in the early ’90s, the band were shot by a magazine under the iconic sign for the musical Les Misérables outside the Palace Theatre, in a joking nod to how dour the Swedes seemed. Funny as this wheeze surely was, though, it was also particularly wide of the mark, particularly when it came to singer Lars-Göran ‘L‑G’ Petrov. A metal maniac with an infectious enthusiasm for music and a warm sense of humour, L‑G’s gurning expressions and clear delight in what he was doing, onstage and off, actually made him the smiling face of death metal, for whom this music was as exciting and fun as it was brutally heavy. What was wild-eyed and hellish in his delivery on albums like Entombed’s essential (and unfathomably influential) Left Hand Pa...
