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subject, comparing a medicine man with today’s
rock star, if you will. There are some similarities,
in a comic way, in a fun way.”
He hopes Hardcore Superstar’s music re-
lieves the audience. If there’s someone alone and
sad in the audience, Adde hopes their show can
help them forget their troubles for a little while.
“I really, really hope so,” he says. “We try to
take it as far as we can, even invite them up on
stage, make them participate in the show. I can
only imagine myself… If I went to a King Diamond
show, and I was in the front row, it’s like ‘OK,
everyone up on stage now, we’re going to drink
a lot.’ If he took me up on stage right there and
then, I would be like ‘Wow!’ forever faithful to
King. That’s what we try to do. That’s pretty much
what the new album is about. What makes us tick
about music… What makes us go… ‘You Can’t
Kill My Rock ‘N’ Roll’ – it’s all in the songs. Why
do we love rock ‘n’ roll so much? This is one of
the things. We want people to participate. We like
the whole scene of it.”
Jocke sings ‘they want to give me treatment
even though I am healing’. Adde says, “I don’t
know how many times people told us that ‘there’s
seriously something wrong with you guys’ - in
different situations, of course. I can’t speak for
the others, but I always felt kind of not like other
people. But I really like who I am and I think that
goes for the other guys. ‘They try to give me treat-
ment even though I am healing,’ – that’s where
that phrase came from, I’m fine with who I am.
Maybe I’m not like you, but I’m fine with this. I like
being like this.”
This is something that many rock fans go
through, especially at school and growing up.
You often feel like an outcast, different to others
in your school.
“Being at school was kind of tough for all of
us,” says Adde. “We did not do well in school. We
were horrible at school. And I think the whole sys-
tem is pretty fucked up, at least in Sweden. When
you’re very young, they tell you that ‘You’re not
as clever as these guys, you’re not doing your
studies’, kind of after a while it can get you down
and after a while you just take it for granted, ‘I’m
not as smart as these people,’ and ‘fuck it, I don’t
care anymore, I don’t care’ and I think that whole
system, it’s not supposed to fit all people. Those
who studied the most, ‘they are the best, greatest
people’ because ‘you know how to study for a
test.’ When you’re at a young age, that can really
make you feel like you’re dumb and behind and
all that stuff. It kind of upset me sometimes, that
stuff. How can you do that to a child? It angers
me sometimes.”
He continues, “If you fit the system and if you
just repeat what the teachers say, if you do just
what they say and don’t say anything else, just
be quiet and do what they say, you’re automati-
cally a great person, an intelligent person, and
what I think is that you’re not, because you can’t
think for yourself; you’ve got to be an individual.
This is stuff that upsets me sometimes. I think it
comes out in the lyrics a lot. I think the system
doesn’t work for the weak people, it only works
for those who work hard.”
he new album saw Adde, Jocke, Vic and
TMartin recording in Martin’s studio, Oster-
lyckan (Wooden Hybrid) Studio, which only
opened in 2016.
Adde says the recording was a joy. “By now,
we worked with all the greats, or that we think are
the greats. We did one album with Randy Staub,
who has done a lot of good stuff; Metallica and
Motley Crue and all those bands; we worked with
him. And then we worked with Joe Barresi, who
had his break with Kyuss and all these great
bands. So we kind of listened and took advice

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