Freak Kitchen

Freak Kitchen is a Swedish rock band from Gothenburg, formed in 1992.^[1]

Freak Kitchen
Freak Kitchen performing in Moscow in 2017
Background information
Origin	Gothenburg, Sweden
Genres	Heavy metal hard rock progressive metal
Years active	1992–present
Labels	Thunderstruck
Members	Mattias "IA" Eklundh Björn Fryklund Christer Örtefors
Past members	Joakim Sjöberg Christian Grönlund
Website	www.freakkitchen.com

History

Freak Kitchen co-headlined Fuel Great Indian Rock 2008 alongside Sahg and Satyricon.^[2]

Their album, Cooking with Pagans, was released in 2014, with the first single, "Professional Help" released in November.^[3]

Musical style

Freak Kitchen's style of music is influenced by many genres besides traditional heavy metal, ranging from jazz to pop. The band described their third album as "A corny little heavy-pop-rock-Latin-world-jazz-avant-garde-metal-blues-record straight from hell!".^[4] The album Land of the Freaks, which was released in late October 2009, features Indian inspiration, with the band joined by the two Indian musicians V. Selvaganesh and Neyveli S Radhakrishna on several tracks.^{[citation needed]}

The lyrics of Freak Kitchen often contain humor and criticism of capitalist society, conformity, racism and the attitude of major labels.^{[citation needed]}

Frontman Mattias Eklundh has a reputation as a guitar virtuoso,^[5] and live shows often contain parts where Eklundh plays the guitar using several foreign objects such as a vibrating dildo.^{[citation needed][relevant?]} Eklundh has also released four solo albums, Sensually Primitive (1996) (under the pseudonym Mr Libido), Freak Guitar (1999), Freak Guitar - The Road Less Traveled (2004) and Freak Guitar: The Smorgasbord (2013).

Members

Freak Kitchen in 2008. L–R: Christer Örtefors, Björn Fryklund.

Current

• Mattias "IA" Eklundh – vocals, guitar (1992–present)
• Christer Örtefors – bass, vocals (2000–present)
• Björn Fryklund – drums (2000–present)

Previous

• Christian Grönlund – bass, vocals (1992–2000)
• Joakim Sjöberg – drums (1992–2000)

Discography

Albums

• Appetizer (Thunderstruck Productions, 1994)
• Spanking Hour (Thunderstruck Productions, 1996)
• Freak Kitchen (Thunderstruck Productions, 1998)
• Dead Soul Men (Thunderstruck Productions, 2000)
• Move (Thunderstruck Productions, 2002)
• Organic (Thunderstruck Productions, 2005)
• Land of the Freaks (Thunderstruck Productions, 2009)
• Cooking with Pagans (Thunderstruck Productions, 2014)
• Confusion to the Enemy (Thunderstruck Productions, 2018)
• Everyone Gets Bloody (Thunderstruck Productions, 2024)

EPs

• Junk Tooth (1997)