Killing Kind - Being Human (2025)

Swedish band Killing Kind consume across their second album, Being Human — strutting a darkly impactful melding of post-punk and synth-driven entrancement. Recorded at the legendary Sunlight Studio with producer Tomas Skogsberg, the album pairs its memorable sound with poignant themes, tackling the urgency of modern anxieties amidst explorations of memory, mortality, and technological unease.

“Humanity” opens the album in riveting form, stirring with spacey synths and lonesome post-punk guitar tones — jangling seamlessly into sturdy vocals that aspire to “build a legacy.” Depictions of fading memories and introspections on humanity continue amidst the moody atmospheric assortment, blending steady vocal precision with rumbling guitars and sporadic electronic infusions. The ensuing “Desperately Holding On” enthralls in its textured post-punk sound as well, bolstered by visceral lyrics that encounter the world’s climate crisis. The questioning of “what’s going to last” and “are we really trying?” sends chills, poignantly.

Another standout track, “Let the Demons Take the Win” exudes a darkly theatrical captivation — beckoning with nocturnal allure into a title-touting vigor, following a mystique-filled build-up of synths and intense vocals that remind stirringly of Depeche Mode. The release ends with sating impact as well, via finale “Distant World.” Glistening keys and a post-punk undercurrent envelop, concluding the release with further soundscape-rich immersion and dramatic vocal delights. Being Human stands out as a fantastic post-punk full-length from Killing Kind.

The single “Desperately Holding On” is about the climate catastrophe we are facing and was written after Killing Kind singer witnessed a fire in a forest in the Northern Swedish wilderness. Helicopters were water-bombing the fire but just some hundered meters away people had lit a fire for barbecue… We seem to be more attached to our cars, to consumption and to the vacations abroad than to our planet. Earth is dying while humanity desperately holds on to something doomed to die.


Desperately Holding on is a song with strong connections to classic post-punk with obvious nods to the 1980’s. It is driven by Mats Molund’s effective drums, Mats Wigerdal’s sparkling synth arpeggios and a chorus guitar and simple bassline by Björn Norberg.

Killing Kind released a debut album in 2023 and the single “This Beautiful World soon got rotation on Swedish radio and the song was later picked up by radio stations in USA, Canada, Mexico, France, Greece, Lithuania, Great Britain, Germany, New Zeeland and China. With the new singles and the upcoming album Killing Kind aims even higher, to reach a larger audience all over the world. Killing Kind is based in Uppsala in Sweden, where singer and guitarist Björn Norberg lives, and in Stockholm.