antiReviews: Entombed � Uprising

by Goth Brooks

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Track listing:

1. Seeing Red 
2. Say It In Slugs 
3. Won't Back Down 
4. Insanity's Contagious
5. Something Out Of Nothing 
6. Scottish Hell
7. Time Out
8. The Itch
9. Year In Year Out
10. Returning To Madness
11. Come Clean
12. In The Flesh

U.S. bonus tracks:

13. Superior
14. The Only Ones
15. Words

Oh man, this is killer!  Here we have something totally unexpected from a band that is known as the pioneers of the Swedish death metal genre, who in the process of creating this album have come up with a sub-genre all their own.  Entombed began as Nihilist before the name change came eleven years ago.  Their latest release "Uprising" doesn't sound like any kind of Death Metal from any Nordic Country I've heard before; neither does it sound like any of the American Death Metal counterparts I've heard, like Deicide for example.  Uprising is the bands eighth release in their eleven years as Entombed and it is by far the best written, hardest, loudest, fastest and most aggression inducing album of the batch.

Entombed is known for a brand of Death Metal that mixes as many parts punk rock as it does classic rock to create something that separates itself from the pack in a way that if you put this on the stereo and listened to it, guaranteed you wouldn't call it Death Metal, nor could you make any accurate comparisons to any other Death Metal band around.  The band's bio likes to downplay the grandiose claims of how killer the record is because they hired some big time producer for a s***load of money to make sure they got the sound they wanted.  More accurately, the band opted to go into the studio with Nico Elgstrand because all they wanted was somebody who was cool enough to just do his job and make a killer record.  No pretentious bulls*** from a producer who would have detracted from the bands ideas would be allowed.  And without the big time producer they still come out with an incredibly powerful guitar-driven album that's loaded with some of the most staggering riffs heard on any record lately.

The opening track "Seeing Red" starts off with a killer pull-off type of guitar riff that sounds like it's a few notes short, and a creatively re-arranged version of the opening riff to Deep Purples "Burn."  Guitarist Uffe Cederlund claims he mixed a few riffs from an AC/DC song, and a song from an English punk band called The Stupids to come up with the opening riff to "Seeing Red."  The song is driven by a very Motorhead sounding bass in the midsection where the guitars drop out to make way for L-G Petrov's bold and direct lyrics that ask the listeners to question themselves of their truly violent nature. "Say It in Slugs" is a take on the humor of the bands inner circle.  Instead of talking or arguing about something pointlessly, the band makes a clear statement that they'd much rather whip out the Uzi's and put each other out of their misery.  It hasn't happened in at least eleven years though, and in hopes of more killer music from Entombed I hope it doesn't happen any time soon.

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The Official Entombed website is located at: www.entombed.net 

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