Clandestine (album)
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CD, LP |
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9 |
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43:40 |
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Clandestine ( English for secretly, furtively ) is the second studio album by the Swedish band Entombed . It was released on Earache Records in November 1991 and is considered the groundbreaking album of Swedish death metal .
Music genre
With the classic Death Metal debut Left Hand Path Entombed had already gained some attention in the scene. In particular, the title track and video, which featured brute mid-tempo passages and catchy riffing and was often played on MTV in the Headbangers Ball show , set the direction in which songwriting developed on Clandestine. In comparison, it was more varied and more accessible than its predecessor, but without sacrificing fast parts.
The punchy production with a sawing guitar sound was characteristic, which subsequently made Tomas Skogsberg one of the most sought-after producers on the Swedish scene. Added to this was the song of as a replacement for the previously stepped out frontman Lars-Göran Petrov fetched Johnny Dordevic of Carnage , the loud music booklet by drummer Nicke Andersson and guitarist Ulf Cederlund was only supported. However, many reviewers mention Andersson as a real singer. Its shouting , less than growls like L.-G. Petrov is compared to a mixture of Tom Araya and Peter Steele . According to an interview with Nicke Andersson, he did not sing on Clandestine, but Dordevic. This is contradicted by the booklet of the official DVD released in 2001, in which it is made clear that "Dordevic had never actually strained his pipes on the record."
The trade press found that the overall style of the album was “actually no longer flawless Death Metal”. The album also contains some synthesizer passages connecting the tracks as well as samples . Andersson originally wanted to use more samples, but Skogsberg advised against it. The samples in Living Dead come from the 1964 Poe film adaptation The Masque of the Red Death with Vincent Price .
History of origin
Lars-Göran Petrov had to leave the band in 1990 because he fell out with Nicke Andersson. From shortly hired Orvar Säfström of Nirvana in 2002 , the comprehensive on the three pieces Crawl - EP is heard, Entombed were separated again. When the band went into the studio in early 1991, neither they nor the record company knew who would be singing on Clandestine, so musicians friends were allowed to sing. With a view to the upcoming tour in particular, the previous Carnage bassist Dordevic was hired as a singer. Nicke Andersson, who also wrote the songs on Clandestine (mostly with Cederlund), took over the vocals on the album. Rumor has it that LG Petrov , who was later brought back to the band for the Gods of Grind tour with the Earache bands Carcass , Cathedral and Confessor , was supposed to “sing it over again”, but that didn't happen.
Texts
“To us, 'Clandestine' means something hidden, something secret, something you don't see every day. That's what it's about, the dark things in life and in death. Things that you don't think about every day, or rather you don't want to think about it, because they are too scary and too gloomy. "
Lyrically, Andersson wanted to break new ground on Clandestine and leave the " Gore " lyrics on Left Hand Path behind, as they were "a bit unoriginal". Evilyn is about the dangers of desire that should be portrayed in a woman in person . The preoccupation with death that suggests the genre runs through the lyrics, but less in the way of Pungent Stench , which Andersson praises, or Carcass, for example. Rather, it makes sense to write about death, because it "brings relief".
reception
Wolf Rüdiger Mühlmann from Rock Hard described Clandestine as the “most important sound document of Scandinavian death art” alongside the work of At the Gates . His colleague Frank Albrecht saw the album as "playful, accomplished Death Metal with gifted guitar runs" and praised the "crisp production" and the "great vocals" and awarded 9.5 out of 10 points. Jason Birchmeier's record was rated 4.5 out of 5 stars on Allmusic.com.
Track list
- Living Dead - 4:25 (Music: Andersson / Text: Hellid)
- Sinners Bleed - 5:11 (Music: Andersson / Cederlund / Text: Andersson)
- Evilyn - 5:05 (Music: Andersson / Cederlund / Rosenberg / Text: Andersson)
- Blessed Be - 4:47 (Music: Andersson / Cederlund / Rosenberg / Text: Hellid)
- Stranger Aeons - 3:25 (Music: Andersson / Cederlund / Text: Kenny Dick Hakansson )
- Chaos Breed - 4:53 (Music: Andersson / Cederlund / Text: Hakansson)
- Crawl - 6:14 (Music and text: Andersson. Already title track of the EP of the same name)
- Severe Burns - 4:01 (Music and Text: Andersson)
- Through the Collonades - 5:38 (Music: Andersson / Text: Hakansson)
Video
A video clip was shot for Stranger Aeons , which was also a single or EP with the two “ Outtake ” pieces Dusk and Shreds of Flesh , in which Camilla Henemark, at that time still the front woman in the Army of Lovers, was involved. When asked at MTV's Headbangers Ball , the band reported that they had been in the studio at the same time, so the collaboration had come about. Johnny Dordevic can also be seen as the singer in the video. Directed by Barry Maguire.
Artwork
The cover artwork comes from Dan Seagrave , who worked for several other death metal bands, including Dismember , Hypocrisy , Morbid Angel or Pestilence and who had also designed the left-hand-path cover.
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- ↑ a b amazon.de: Review Wolf-Rüdiger Mühlmann (Rock Hard)
- ^ Vampster.com: Hall of Fame, July 3, 2005
- ↑ a b c d rockhard.de: Review by Frank Albrecht
- ↑ a b c d Markus Müller: "Desert Trunkenbolde?" , In: Rock Hard , No. 57, January 1992, pp. 12-13.
- ↑ a b DVD booklet Entombed - Monkey Puss.
- ↑ www.allmusic.com: Entombed biography by Jason Birchmeier
- ↑ www.allmusic.com: Jason Birchmeier review
- ↑ www.amazon.de: Review Entombed - Monkey Puss DVD