What do Methane, The Exploited and Twisted Sister Have In Commen?

What do Methane, The Exploited and Twisted Sister have in commen? 

The answer is SWEDISH STEEL!

Methane is proud to announce we have landed an endorsement deal with Skull Strings and have our own line of signature guitar and bass strings available now in our webshop

Skull Strings defend their motto ” Xtreem to the Bone” they are just that, created for extreem music with string sets geared for drop tuning and thier steel windings. Skull’s steel strings make for a brighter , more longlasting string.

This year we will be brandishing Skull Strings on tour supporting our new album “Kill it with Fire”

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Tim’ signature bass strings

(45-105 Stainless Steel wound, long gage)

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Jimi’s signature guitar strings

( 9-46   Nickel Wound)

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Markus’ signature guitar strings 

( 10-46  Stainless Steel)

Learn more about Skull Strings

“Because the string is the first vibrating element,

Because the sound can’t be dissociated from each of its elements, it was only natural to pay special attention to the strings. “

SKULL STRINGS is the brand name of the TOLITO Compagny (1993), created in 2004 and entirely dedicated to Metal and Extreme Music.

Its creator, Carlos Pavicich, a former professional bass player, has always taken great care of his sound.

In the 90’s, as the owner of several music stores, he was largely confronted with the problems of artists looking for string sets really adapted to their needs, problems that he had also been facing for a long time.

Far from letting his music be dictated by standardized sets of strings and as a man of solutions, the SKULL STRINGS idea was born. And after about ten years of research and tests, the first SKULL STRINGS range, the DROP Line, was released. The others followed.

Forerunners in the Drop, Low Tuning and specific and extreme gauges, we are also the specialists of custom gauges. Our work does not only consist in winding strings of very high quality, but more importantly in finding solutions adapted to the ever more specific needs of musicians. Our work consists in relieving the musician’s mind of the worries due to technical constraints.

“The best string? The one that corresponds to the choices, needs and tastes of the artist.

The string being the first element in contact with their fingers, and in fact, the first vehicle between their creativity and the real world,

the best string is the one that allows them to forget that they are touching a string.”

Carlos PAVICICH

Cover photo: Fetchner photography

Methane To Support Nervosa On Swedish Shows

Methane is excited to start announcing shows for 2023. We just released our new album “Kill it With Fire” and now its time to headback out on the road and break some necks. Our first gigs of the year will be supporting our friends Nervosa along with Frantic Amber on Nervosa’s “Northern Tour”. Methane and Frantic Amber will only be playing 2 nights here in Sweden, on Wednesday, April 5 @Platens in Linköping and Friday, April 7 @Broken Dreams in Borlänge. Get your tickets direct from www.nervosaofficial.com/ . These gigs were made possible by Hellbilly Booking and Napalm Events.

We are super stoked to meet up with Prika and the Nervosa crew again, last time we played some shows in Germany and The Netherlands way back in 2017 so this will be especially fun for us. See you in the pit!

Methane Drops New Album “Shock And Awe” Video Streaming

Sweden’s Methane delivers a high powered no nonsense thrash metal album. The band’s second album has been long awaited after the debut “The Devil’s Own” released 2017. The new album, released on Friday, January 27 can be streamed on all digital music providers and is also available on vinyl and CD from Bandcamp.

Kill It With Fire is a searing 7 song album, just enough to leave you wanting more. The album in the veins of Slayer and Kreator, combines an old school thrash metal vibe with a new fresh production that gets straight to the point. The band blends in a bit of groove metal and New York Hardcore to round off its unapologetic sound, filled with mosh pit provoking riffs. The album also features a special guest solo from CJ. Scioscia from legendary thrash metal band Blood Feast on track #5 A Blood Red Sky.

A music video for track #4 Shock and Awe is now streaming on Youtube. The video is on the same wavelength as the album. No glitz, no glam just underground headspinning thrash.

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Methane Unleash Shock and Awe Music Video and Single

Swedish thrashers, Methane share new music video and digital released single for “Shock and Awe” as a warm up to the bands January 27th album release of Kill It With Fire. Shock and Awe is a new thrashmetal stomper with an old school Bay Area vibe. Its no frills, headfirst video was filmed in Karlstad, Sweden by Erik Hansen from EH Digital, who previously directed the band’s video for ‘Thin the Herd’. 

” We wanted to keep it simple and true to the underground. The song is a straight forward neckbreaker and we thought the video should be too. Erik ads his own twisted concept with his editing.” ~ Tim Scott vocalist and bassist

Kill it With Fire will be the bands second  album which shows a clear development in the bands music writing smoving tword a heavier more relentless thrash style. Featured on the album is a collaboration with CJ Scioscia of legendary New Jersey based Blood Feast who lends a tasty solo to “A Blood Red Sky“. 

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Methane Proclaim Shock and Awe! New Thrash Metal Single Revealed.

Hey guys! We are really excited to tell you,we are releaseing a new single!

ARE YOU READY TO THRASH?

On January, Friday the 13th, Methane will unleash Shock and Awe a brand new single and video from our ‘Kill It With Fire’ album due out on January 27, 2023. We have finished filming the video and promise a brutal new head spining video, filmed by Erik Hansen who created the bands video for Thin The Herd in 2019. Erik is hidden in his bunker editing it now so that the onslaught will be up as scheduled.

Definition: NOUN – military, the strategy of using overwhelming force at the outset of a conflict in order to break the enemy’s will to resist Also called: rapid dominance. – Collins Dictionary

Cover art : Tim Scott

About The Song: This song is an assault with rapidly, dominating guitar riffs, a fast paced representation of the new albums sound, completed by technical drumming, a really ear catching guitar solo and an epic chorus. We can’t wait for you all to wrap your heads around it and tell us what you think!

You can pre-save the audioversions of the song already on Spotify and Youtube. Methane’s new album will be available on all didgtal outlets as long as on vinyl and CD that you can snag on the band’s Bandcamp, where they are running a Pre-Order campaign.

  • Band: Methane
  • Home: Sweden
  • Genre: Thrash / Groove metal
  • Song : Shock and Awe
  • Release Date : January 13, 2023

For those of you who are curious and do not want to wait , you are welcome to watch a live version of the song played at the Sabaton Open Air festival in Falun Sweden. Hats of to the audience who helped dedicate this song to Vladimir Putin.

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METHANE New Album Details KILL IT WITH FIRE

Methane announce the release of a new brimstone engulfed album for early 2023. Hailing from Sweden with American born singer/bassist Tim Scott, formerly of cult acclaimed NJ death metal band Revenant, has chosen January 27, 2023 as the release date of its heavy groove laden thrash metal album “Kill It With Fire“.

Cover Art BY: Eka Saputra Pzychopart

The album reverberates unapologetic thrash metal guitar riffing courtesy of guitarists Jimi Masterbo and Markus Grundstrom paired with the intense drumming of newly inducted drummer Jonathan Fundin . The album also features a colaboration with CJ Scioscia from New York City area thrash legends Blood Feast, who shreds a solo on track 5 ‘A Blood Red Sky’. Kill It With Fire was produced, mixed and mastered by Jonas Arnberg at Sellnoise Studio in Sweden.

Methane – Kill it with Fire on Bandcamp   

Tim commented in a press release “The lyrics for the album have a dark irony about our contemporary societal woes and some deeply personal songs as well, of life and all its miseries. The music on the album sounds brutal we really got a sick mix of old school thrash and heavy pit provoking groove riffs.”

Thin the Herd is the first single from the album originally released in 2019 now Methane have just finished shooting a new video to be released sometime in January.

The music video depicts today’s society, social media junkies hopped up Facebook likes. The idea for the song came from a day Tim was going through his friends list, deleting people that had no reason to be there. ” I was culling them, deleting someone from your page is worse than death for some people. I think we are all going fuckin’ crazy. Its a virus and we’re all infected”

Kill It With Fire Tracklist:

1- “Kill It With Fire”

2- “Accuser (of the brethren)”

3- “Declare Chaos”

4- “Shock and Awe”

5- “A Blood Red Sky” ( feat. CJ Scioscia of Blood Feast)

6- “Down in the Gutter”

7- “Thin the Herd”

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METHANE ENLIST NEW DRUMMER

Swedish thrash metal band Methane have enlisted a new drummer and enter the studio to complete recordings of the bands sophomore album ‘Kill It With Fire’. After a tumultuous couple of years with the CoronaVirus epidemic and swapping tenures of drummers that only can be rivaled by Spinal Tap, Methane has found and recruited 22 year old Jonathan Fundin as full time drummer. Jonathan, who has been playing live with Methane for over a year has proven he is not only a phenomenal drummer, but a tight, technical, seasoned proformer.

Jonathan Fundin drummer Methane

Methane has had a new album written and has been waiting in the wings to find the missing cog to boost the music to a new level of aural depravity.  With influences like Dave Lombardo (Slayer/Testament) and Joey Jordison (Slipknot), Jonathan brings high energy to Methane’s heavily groove influenced thrash sound. Fundin says himself that his playing style is influenced by everything from jazz to death metal.

“After hearing the music and meeting Jimi, Tim and Markus I knew I was in for a ride! I love the challenge of playing the songs but also hanging out with the guys, they are the best really!”













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Watch “Jonte” play live with Methane at the Sabaton Open Air Festival. Playong a new song ‘A Blood Red Sky’ from Methane’s upcomming album ‘Kill It With Fire’.

METHANE VIDEO VLOG

As we prepare for a new era of Methane, we have great news for all of our friends and followers on Facebook. Starting Friday September 23 we will be uploading our entire vlog catalogue up on our Official Facebook Page. We will upload a new video every Friday at noon EST / 6 PM CEST. This will inculde Live videos, our tour vlog “Mobil Moshpit” a series where we take you on the road with us, “Thrash Tards” our series of everything Thrash Metal, Playthroughs. You can still see all of our Methane Vlog videos on our Youtube channel.

The first video out is a professional drum playthrough video with drummer Hans Karlin (ex- Letters from the Colony) who played with the band for awhile. The video was filmed and edited at Sellnoise Studios by Jonas Arnberg, who also is currently mixing and mastering a new Methane album. Watch it here on Facebook.

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METHANE PRESENT NEW DRUMMER

We are stoked to be able to tell everyone we have drafted Hans Karlin into the ranks of METHANE! Hans will make his debut show with us this Friday, February 28th in Borlänge, Sweden at The House of Blues.

Official press release:
Swedish metallers METHANE, have announced HANS KARLIN (ex Cryonic TempleLetters from the Colony) as their new drummer.

The Sweden based KARLIN, started after his school years with Cryonic Temple. A while later he had the chance to play with Letters from the Colony . He’s playing Odery Drums and Saluda Cymbals. Furthermore there is, and has been tons of influencers throughout the years and one who tops the list of drummers gotta be Dirk Verbeuren when he played together with Soilwork.

METHANE have just announced a number of live appearances this year in Sweden, which include Sabaton Open Air Festival on August 5th, 2020.So far, the following dates have been announced:

Feb 28 House of Blues, Borlänge, SE w/ Lysis
May 08 Fredagsmangel, Stockholm, SE
Aug 05 Sabaton Open Air Festival, Falun, SE

METHANE has built a reputation as a live band in the underground European metal scene playing with bands such as Nervosa , Warbringer and The HauntedMETHANE is currently booking more dates in Europe (Sweden, Finland, Russia, Germany, Benelux) and USA for 2020.METHANE is Heavy Fuckin Southern Metal from Sweden with drawing influence from Slayer, LOG, and PanteraMETHANE has created a unique sound that is strong and unapologetic.

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METHANE is fueled by:Tim Scott – Bass and vocals
Jimi Masterbo – Lead Guitar
Markus Grundstrom – Guitar
Hans Karlin – Drums

ROCK N GROWL

METHANE CONTEST WINNERS!

During the month of September we ran a contest to win a METHANE Thin The Herd U.S. tour t-shirt. The contest came about because we want to show our appreciation for all of you who support us by sharing our music and posts. The contest was #Tag5friends. Particpents tagged 5 friends in The Thin The Herd YouTube and Spotify posts on our Facebook page, then we drew random names from a hat on a live Facebook feed.

Congrats to :

Jessica Vesterberg of Sandviken Sweden and Diana Heinemann from Germany. Below is a photo of Jessica with her new shirt! Thank You!!

If you would like to help us out join our 72 Crew street team group on Facebook. We will be running moe contests in the future.