The Family Men

The Family Men (Gothenburg, Sweden) refuse easy categorisation. Underpinned by mangled electronics and tape loops, savage guitars and a ruthless vocal delivery, the band are restless by design and singularly raw.

What started as a two-piece garage-punk band has mutated into something muscular, volatile and totally their own. Founders Gustav Danielsbacka and Nils Lindgren bonded as kids over a shared love of Slipknot’s first album, writing together long before the band took its current shape. The addition of Vidar Nilsson and Valdemar Wickelgren Löthman rounded the group to a four-piece, and a shift toward electronics set them on the path to their debut album, No Sound Forever (Harmful Records, 2024). Their evolution continues with the release of Co/de/termination (out now via Welfare Sounds). Where their debut folded electronics into songs already written, Co/de/termination was built outward from the synths and samplers themselves. The result channels the corrosive pulse of industrial rock, a kind of brutalist psychedelia, and a reverence for meticulous song-craft into their most deliberate and activating work to date.