Interviews About Albums: Dead Sleep - Repulsion (2026)

In this new interview, we sat down with the Swedish Thrash Metal band Dead Sleep to ask questions about their album, "Repulsion".

1. What can you say about "Repulsion"?

Repulsion is a collection of songs that focus on the eternally human themes of motherhood, power, and society's hatred of all things "feminine". Specifically, the lyrical theme revolves around historical and mythical women who have transgressed the boundaries of traditional femininity and motherhood, and how hard society, no matter what age we are living in, condemns these individuals. You could say that the spirit of the original heretic and rebel Lilith hovers around all these lyrics: women throughout history who refuse the straightjacket of traditional femininity, and how these women are cast out as evil and nature's abominations.

2. What is the meaning of the EP name?

Repulsion is one of our strongest human emotions alongside anger, sorrow etc. We wanted to explore that feeling a bit, and also Repulsion is about the fetal ejection reflex, an involuntary, physiological process in the final stage of labor where the uterus powerfully contracts to expel the baby without active, conscious pushing by the mother

3. Which one is the composer of "Repulsion"?

Usually, Marcus writes the riffs and Anna writes the lyrics. We all arrange the songs together.

4. If you had to pick one song, which one would you pick?

For me, Marcus, it would be "Bring Me the Head" because it perfectly embodies the vision I had for the band from the very start and is a statement of Heavy Thrash metal with elements of progressive songwriting to it. It is dark, heavy Thrash, blackened, fast death, and punk, and to some degree extreme. A bastard mix that we totally love to play! There is also a bit of insanity to it!

5. Is there a special message in this EP? If there is what it is?

As we say in the first answer, it is about "evil" women in literature and history, but filtered through Anna's perspective, and given a voice of empathy to women, who, for the most part, have been victimized; these women are up to no good, but they are not victims, and they write their own stories away from the patriarchal model.

6. Are there some lyrics that you'd love to share?

This is from the song "Hell hath no fury" -

This is from 

Children of the blade

Vers 1

Under the wretched sun of insanity

The stream of milk runs dry

Suckling mouth gasps in vain

Sacrifice the fruit of the womb

Let it rot in the sun

Let it perish under the ray

We’re homeless we’re loveless

Flaunted on parade

We’re children of the blade

Children of the blade! X 2

Vers 2

Forsaken and damned

Let us rot in the sun

Let us perish under the ray

Where is your mother? 

Where is your father? 

The guard sharpens his sword

We’re homeless we’re loveless

Flaunted on parade

We’re children of the blade

Children of the blade!"

7. Which inspirations have been important for "Repulsion"? Like musically or friends, family, someone you'd love to thank especially?

Bands and people that can hold more than one or two perspectives at the same time, bands and people who are not stuck in their genre but can move between and write songs that come from their own brew rather than from a strict genre pool. Those bands might be scarce to find, but maybe Carcass, Discharge, Sodom, Aura Noir, etc. are bands that move in their own pool of blood and set their own path to follow.

8. Something to add?

Don´t be afraid of your own shadow and listen to Repulsion!

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