This Swedish Death Metal Remix Of Greta Thunberg’s UN Speech Is Loud Enough To Wake Up The World

Last week, Greta Thunberg addressed the UN in New York, delivering a searing, impassioned speech directed at world leaders refusing to act on our climate crisis. And what’s more searing than a death metal remix?

Chatting to Rolling Stone, Suaka drummer John Meredith said he felt inspired to remix Thunberg’s speech as soon as he heard it.

“When I saw her speech, I was very impressed by her passion and outrage,” he said. “And the words she chose just evoked the darkness of the metal music I love: Entombed, Gojira, At the Gates, Sepultura.”

The result is YouTube video ‘Greta Thunberg sings Swedish Death Metal’, which is edging close to three million views. It follows a surprisingly moving remix of the speech to Fatboy Slim’s ‘Right Here, Right Now’.

Thunberg herself has weighed in on Meredith’s remix, tweeting the video and adding, “I have moved on from this climate thing… From now on I will be doing death metal only!!”.

I have moved on from this climate thing… From now on I will be doing death metal only!! https://t.co/mYqXxFuE77

— Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) September 28, 2019

In case you need a reminder, the 16-year-old’s UN speech criticised the way she was being valourised without governments following through on action.

“You come to us young people for hope,” she said. “How dare you. You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with empty words. Yet, I am one of the lucky ones.”

“People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are dying. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction. And all you can talk about is money, and fairytales of eternal economic growth. How dare you.”

Watch the death metal remix below, which yes, Meredith knows isn’t technically Swedish death metal.