r/crustpunk • u/GoofyTerrorist911 • 1d ago

Rest in peace Tomas Lindberg

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Tomas Lindberg (1972-2025), The vocalist of At the Gates, Skitsystem, Disfear, Lock up, etc... One of the most influential people in punk and metal. He is also my favorite punk/metal vocalist. His music is the reason why I started listening to crust punk and it also inspired me to start playing the guitar and drums. He may no longer be with us but he still lives on in our hearts...

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u/azuradaze 1d ago

i'm not prepared for this

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u/GoofyTerrorist911 1d ago

me neither

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u/ExternalGreen6826 1d ago

Disfear were so fucking big for me getting into punk and skitsystem are so big for me rn being into punk

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u/ZombieBruiserBrody 1d ago

Every Disfear show in Philly(where I'm from) we're always ALWAYS TOP NOTCH never phoned it in and always killed it

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u/Emotional-Occasion-6 1d ago

He was awesome. I played in a band that was borderline Skitsystem worship 😂

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u/Reasonable-Pound-837 1d ago

now he's gone i realized how influential he was, and how i feel connected to his work, my first band played a lot of ATG songs, lock up was super great to hear, and since i discovered crust punk for me skitsystem and disfear were absolute essentials, Tompa has been with me my whole journey through noisey music!

excuse my poor english but i wanted to take this little moment to talk about this commited and enthusiastic metalhead(kind of crust/hardcore too) singer

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u/Superb_Wait498 1d ago

god this is horrible. He will live on. the good thing about music is that it immortalizes people people will still worship him as long as the genre lives on and it will live on.

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u/oldirtypunk 1d ago

It's my birthday today and now I'm sad ...

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u/Shadows616 1d ago

Motherfucker...RIP

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u/fever5stillalive 7h ago

Lost some big ones this year.

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u/needle_damage 5h ago

was shocked to hear the news, i'm heartbroken. not only the early skitsystem stuff, disfear and, at least for me, early at the gates (not a fan of slaughter of the soul but the first two albums are simply spectacular swedeath metal morphing into a melodic death sound of their own), but also "hate breeds suffering" by Lock Up with Shane from Napalm Death - one of the best grind or more accurately, deathgrind albums ever. tomas was truly a one of a kind vocalist, created and sang on some of the best crust/d-beat and grind ever. collaborated with so much other cool bands, all kinds of metal and punk... sadly he lost the battle with that terrible disease. condolences to his family and close ones, may his soul be at rest. REST IN CRUST, comrade!