You want rock? You get ROCK. “The Hag” by Arn-Identified Flying Objects and Alien Friends is a goddamn statement. And yeah, you heard that right. This ain’t some polished pop confection. This thing has teeth.
Let’s talk about that drum throne first. Andreas Quincy Dahlbäck doesn’t simply play drums on this track—he EXPLODES behind the kit. We’re talking explosive drums that hit you square in the chest like a freight train with a grudge. The man is detonating fills left and right, and every snare crack feels like somebody just kicked your door in. This is how you play rock drums, people. Take notes.
Then you got Daniel Lagerlöf stepping in with those soaring guitar solos. And I mean SOARING. Not the wimpy kind that tiptoes around. No—this is the kind of lead work that makes you grab the nearest air guitar and start windmilling like your life depends on it. Lagerlöf’s solos climb, scream, and burn through the mix like he’s trying to melt the speakers.
Now, here’s where it gets wild. The middle section of “The Hag” was written way back in 1834 by Swedish writer and composer Carl Jonas Love Almqvist. Yeah, you read that right—almost two hundred years old. And Arn-Identified Flying Objects and Alien Friends had the balls to grab that skeleton and put some serious meat on it. The story: a woman burned at the stake for witchcraft. Dark stuff. But the band interprets those lyrics (not a straight translation, mind you—they put their own spin on it) and turns that tragedy into pure, screaming rock fury.
ALIEN FRIEND, the man behind this whole operation, used to play guitar and sing in the Swedish band REDMOON. Now he’s running his solo project, and the guy knows how to channel some real fire. This is the same crew that dropped a double album co-produced by David Myhr from the Merrymakers, so you know the pedigree is there.
In conclusion, “The Hag” rips. It stomps. It burns. And it proves that music from 1834 can still sound fresher than half the garbage on the radio today. Turn it up or get out.
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