Last week, YouTuber John Mollusk unleashed a remix of Greta Thunberg’s moving UN speech. The remix saw Mollusk transform the 16-year-old activist’s impassioned speech into a guttural, Swedish death metal banger.
“When I saw her speech, I was very impressed by her passion and outrage,” Mollusk shared in an interview with Rolling Stone. “And the words she chose just evoked the darkness of the metal music I love: Entombed, Gojira, At the Gates, Sepultura.”
Now, Swedish label Despotz Records has commissioned the remix into a charity single, dubbed ‘How Dare You.’ All profits from the track are set to benefit Greenpeace.
“Greta says it better than neither we on this label nor any other adult so far has been able to say it, so one of the best things we can do is to use our platform for spreading her own words,” Despotz Records shared in a statement. “We stand united with her in her quest and are grateful for a chance to contribute in any way! To be fair, Greta embodies rock music in its full meaning. She is uncompromising, tough as hell and doesn’t give a shit about what people think of her. She is not afraid to tell you about the scariest things imaginable without beautifying it a bit, and that is what metal is about.”
The label has launched the hashtag #Greenmetal, urging “metal fans worldwide to mobilize and take part in the environmental movement together and to create history, making the death metal song ’How Dare You’ enter the Billboard top 10 charts!”. If Lil Nas X can top the charts with a song about traversing an old town road, anything is possible.
The track is available through Spotify, Apple Music, Bandcamp and more. You can listen to it below.
Listen: Greta Thunberg – ‘How Dare You’
‘How Dare You’ arrives with an album artwork depicting Thunberg sporting metal-inspired makeup. It truly makes Mayem look like a troupe of namby-pambies.
