Entombed, one of the premier death metal bands of the early '90s, boldly ventured into new musical territory with Wolverine Blues, the band's third excellent album in a row. Wolverine Blues is such a departure from past efforts, in fact, it's debatable whether this music even qualifies as death metal, given its standard rock characteristics: ...
Earache Records was the premiere death metal and grindcore label for almost ten years. Although other labels eventually equaled their success, Earache still kept a fantastic group of musicians in its roster to keep them vital to the heavy metal underground. This sampler, an inexpensive treat for metal fans, showcases the various artists signed by ...
The five-track, 24-minute When in Sodom EP marked the return of Entombed after a few years off (i.e., Inferno, 2003) and the departure of guitarist Uffe Cederlund. As with the departure of drummer/songwriter Nicke Andersson in 1997, the departure of Cederlund didn't bode well for the group: not only did he succeed Andersson as Entombed's primary ...
Drawing its repertoire from the Left Hand Path and Clandestine albums, Monkey Puss: Live in London was recorded in 1992 at the London Astoria, relatively early in Entombed's career. Not surprisingly, the material from Clandestine tends to outshine the more standard (but seemingly crowd-pleasing) grind-thrash of many of the Left Hand Path songs. ...
For Inferno, Entombed returned to the freewheeling "death & roll" it invented for 2000's Uprising. And while it moves at a pace somewhere between hardcore and hard rock, L.G. Petrov's lyrics and teeth-baring growl are more brutal than anything the current generation of nu-metal howlers can moan about. Instead of tepid alt-metal jams fronted by ...
Few metal bands underwent a more radical evolution in the 1990s than Entombed, who entered the decade as an amelodic, high-speed death metal/ thrash/grindcore band, but who evolved into a slower, more accessible outfit with Metallica leanings and a strong appreciation of Motorhead. While singer Lars-Goran Petrov once favored the type of choked, ...
Uprising was intended as a return to form by Entombed, make no mistake, and fortunately it succeeds on all counts. Recorded on a minuscule budget with producer Nico Elgstrand over the course of only 18 days, Uprising was an attempt to recapture the rawness of Entombed's earliest -- and most acclaimed -- work. The second song, "Say It in Slugs," ...
Entombed, one of the premier death metal bands of the early '90s, boldly ventured into new musical territory with Wolverine Blues, the band's third excellent album in a row. Wolverine Blues is such a departure from past efforts, in fact, it's debatable whether this music even qualifies as death metal, given its standard rock characteristics: ...
Vocalist Orvar Säfström joined Entombed just long enough to sing on the three-track Crawl EP, taking over for Lars-Göran Petrov. The version of "Crawl" here on this EP differs from the subsequent version on Clandestine (1991), though the difference is essentially one of vocals. Drummer/songwriter Nicke Andersson sung the version on Clandestine, ...
Over the years, the horror genre has been quite popular among heavy metal fans. Many of the headbangers who are fascinated by Slayer and Ozzy Osbourne's interest in the occult have also found vampire and werewolf movies intriguing. So from a marketing standpoint, it makes perfect sense for Right Stuff to assemble a metal collection that features ...
Another damn tribute album -- at least this time there are a few awesome bands, as opposed to unsigned metal from Idaho doing Slayer or Metallica covers. As a personal rule, tribute album reviews should remain relatively short. If you're not too familiar with the original Bad Brains tunes, the band was a revolutionary punk band from D.C. in the ...
Grind Crusher is a great sampler of late-'80s thrash metal/death metal/grindcore sides from the pioneering English label Earache. Primarily focused on British and European acts when this collection was released, Earache brought originators like Napalm Death, as well as other standout bands such as Morbid Angel, Bolt Thrower, and Entombed to the ...
In the early '00s, metal-oriented compilations tended to have a lot of rap-metal. Artists like Korn, Limp Bizkit, Rage Against the Machine, and Kid Rock had sold a lot of albums, and metal compilations tried to cash in on rap-metal's popularity. But Heavy Metal: Geomatrix is an exception; this is one metal release that doesn't inundate listeners ...
With their monumental debut album, Left Hand Path, Entombed crashed through the gates of the international death metal scene and foreshadowed the pivotal role that Scandinavia would soon play in the evolution of the then-burgeoning genre. These Swedes had earlier made ripples throughout the underground with their But Life Goes On demo (1989), as ...
Entombed's second album, Clandestine, is cut from the same cloth as its predecessor, the epochal Left Hand Path (1990). Released during the formative period of death metal -- that is, the early '90s, when American bands like Obituary, British bands like Carcass, and Swedish bands like Entombed were all flourishing creatively thanks to supportive ...
Despite years of making above average heavy metal in the underground, Entombed never had a chance to break into the mainstream. This most likely reflects on their death metal past, which provided excellent but decidedly uncommercial music. Time will tell, but Morning Star will hopefully be ranked with Slayer's Reign in Blood, Sepultura's Chaos A.D ...
After Entombed left Earache Records after Wolverine Blues, the label released this eponymous odd-and-ends compilation, which is primarily comprised of the band's EP releases: Out of Hand, Stranger Aeons, Crawl, and Night of the Vampire. There's some good music here, even if almost half of these dozen songs are covers (Kiss' "God of Thunder," ...
The six-track Wreckage EP includes the title track (from To Ride, Shoot Straight and Speak the Truth), an industrial remix of the title track, and four covers ("Tear It Loose," "Lost," "The Ballad of Hollis Brown," "Satan"). ~ Jason Birchmeier, All Music Guide
Entombed's second album, Clandestine, is cut from the same cloth as its predecessor, the epochal Left Hand Path (1990). Released during the formative period of death metal -- that is, the early '90s, when American bands like Obituary, British bands like Carcass, and Swedish bands like Entombed were all flourishing creatively thanks to supportive ...
Following the towering Wolverine Blues, Entombed left Earache to sign with EastWest, where they recorded one album. It was never released and the band was unceremoniously dropped, leaving them to move to the indie Music for Nations, where they released To Ride, Shoot Straight and Speak the Truth. The band may be battered and scarred, but they're ...
After coming off the successful Gods of Grind tour in 1992 and seeing bassist Johnny Dordevic return to the band, the Swedish heavy metal band Entombed decided to release a six-song EP as their major-label debut (on Earache/Columbia). When the Hollowman EP appeared in 1993, it was shocking just how much the band's songwriting and overall sound had ...
The three-track Stranger Aeons EP includes the title track (from Clandestine [1991]) along with two album outtakes, "Dusk" and "Shreds of Flesh," that are, more or less, on a par with the rest of the album. ~ Jason Birchmeier, All Music Guide
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