Sixteen-year-old climate activist and global badass Greta Thunberg generated headlines around our suffering world on Monday with a fiery speech directed at world leaders assembled at the United Nation’s Climate Action Summit in New York City. Now, a YouTuber and musician named John Mollusk has paired her words to music, giving Thunberg’s impassioned speech a soundtrack that hits close to her home and brings as much thunder as she does.
“Greta Thunberg sings Swedish Death Metal” is exactly what it suggests, with the riffage and sonic assault all courtesy of Mollusk. Thunberg’s delivery of the lines “People are suffering / People are dying / Entire ecosystems are collapsing / We are in the beginning of a mass extinction” is really all too appropriate for this genre and style of music, and the growl gives it an enhanced drama that we weren’t even first sure was necessary. This whole unexpected collaboration adds a new chapter of awareness in the endless saga that is Scandinavian metal.
Watch it below. And for a transcript of Thunberg’s historic speech, click here.
