DCLXVI: To Ride Shoot Straight and Speak the Truth

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DCLXVI: To Ride Shoot Straight and Speak the Truth
Entombed studio album

Publication
(s)

March 3, 1997

admission

1996

Label (s) Threeman Recordings / Music for Nations

Format (s)

CD, LP, MC

Genre (s)

Death metal

Title (number)

14 (Bonus EP Family Favorites 6)

running time

39:45 (Bonus EP Family Favorites 20:20)

occupation
  • Guitar: Alex Hellid
  • Bass : Jörgen Sandström

production

Entombed, Tomas Skogsberg

Studio (s)

Sunlight Studio , Stockholm

chronology
Night of the Vampire
(1995) 		DCLXVI: To Ride Shoot Straight and Speak the Truth Wreckage
(1997)

DCLXVI: To Ride Shoot Straight and Speak the Truth (Roman for "666": Ger. "To ride, shoot and tell the truth") is the fourth studio album by the Swedish metal band Entombed and the first on which the former Grave front man Jörgen Sandström can be heard as bassist. The record was released in 1997 on Threeman Recordings' own label .

History of origin

Work on this album went back to 1994 when the band's instrumental faction recorded six songs: To Ride, Shoot Straight and Speak the Truth , Like This with the Devil , Just as Sad , Put Me out and Damn Deal Done . With the exception of Just as Sad , Put Me Out , where Nicke Andersson and Uffe “Monster” Cederlund shared the vocals, these recordings were still without vocals. In addition, an untitled piece was created in this session , which was later given the working title Ms. Anthropic . It was the only track from the time the album was made that still included the then bassist Lars Rosenberg . However, since he left the group for Therion , the song remained unedited and Jörgen Sandström joined as the new bass player. At a rehearsal room session in early 1996, Somewhat Peculiar , Boats and Hollywood Babylon (a cover version of a track by The Misfits , which was later recorded as a studio version for the cover album Sons of Satan ... Praise the Lord ) were played with Petrov's vocals. In this session Parasight and They were also played, but did not contain any lyrics and thus remained without vocals. In the spring of 1996 the band finally recorded the first "real" demo recordings with Petrov on vocals. For this, the songs To Ride, Shoot Straight and Speak the Truth and Like This with the Devil were re-recorded, while Just as Sad and Put Me Out used the instrumental tracks from 1994 and only the vocal tracks by Andersson and Cederlund newly sung passages by Petrov were replaced. In the summer of 1996 the finished studio recordings were made, from which various mixes were made. First Mike Frazer mixed the songs Wreckage and Boats , but the band was not satisfied with the result, so Tomas Skogsberg had the album mixed and this version of the album was circulated as a promo CD for music magazines. However, since Nicke Andersson was not 100 percent convinced of the sound of the album, especially that of the drums, Skogsberg mixed the record a second time. In this version, the album finally found its way into stores. But until then it was still a matter of clarifying which label to release with. The band had left Earache Records disappointed and signed with Eastwest , whose A&R employee they looked after suddenly no longer belonged to the company. Only when the rights to the new songs had been bought back, the band's own label Threeman Recordings was founded, which made the following releases. It was later licensed by Music for Nations .

style

The case word Death 'n' Roll (formed from the components Death Metal and Rock 'n' Roll ) used by printed products such as the Rock Hard Encyclopedia or the Internet platform Metal Rules has long been established as a sub-style and is more entombed than with any other band connected. The style of Death 'n' Roll, which he created on Wolverine Blues, was perfected on To Ride, Shoot Straight and Speak the Truth , explains the website metalinjection.net .

The album is "heavy grinding power-boogie doom" is in Janne Stark's book about the Swedish metal scene . In connection with a singing style that no longer shows growling , instead is comparable to Motörhead or White Zombie , it shows more than ever Entombed's rocking side.

Frank Albrecht found in Rock Hard that To Ride, Shoot Straight and Speak the Truth tie in with Wolverine Blues . The "Death'n'Roll" is composed of the styles of death metal and punk as well as some characteristics of the music groups Motörhead and Kiss . There are also a bluesy ( Boats ), a progressive ( Wound ) and a "completely crazy" ( Mr. Uffe's horror show ) experiment.

Allmusic used the term "Scandinavian Metal".

When asked about the move away from pure death metal to riff-emphasized rock regions in the Saarland music magazine Splitter, Nicke Andersson answered : “Well, times and tastes change over time. Plus, it would be silly to still play flawless Death Metal today like it was four or five years ago. Bands like Carcass or Cathedral are the best examples. [...] We already broke away from our roots on Wolverine Blues , so the change is not that drastic. "

Cover design

The father of the Entombed roadie (and later The Hellacopters bassist) Kenny Håkansson designed film posters for the Guerilla Art company. Entombed relied on his competence for the cover design right from the start. In the case of To Ride, Shoot Straight and Speak the Truth , this specialization in movie posters came into play, because the presentation corresponds to that for horror films of older date (not only but especially in the early 1960s). The DCLXVI working title of the album, which translates into Arabic numbers as the biblical "number of the beast", 666 , was also staged on the cover so that it is sometimes quoted.

Track list

  1. To Ride, Shoot Straight and Speak the Truth - 3:12 ( Nicke Andersson , Alex Hellid)
  2. Like This with the Devil - 2:12 (Andersson)
  3. Lights Out - 3:35 (Andersson)
  4. Wound - 2:43 (Uffe "Monster" Cederlund)
  5. They - 4:05 (Hellid)
  6. Somewhat Peculiar - 3:20 (Andersson, Hellid)
  7. DCLXVI - 1:42 (Lars Göran Petrov)
  8. Parasight - 2:50 (Andersson, Hellid)
  9. Damn Deal Done - 3:26 (Andersson, Cederlund, Hellid)
  10. Put Me Out - 2:23 (Cederlund)
  11. Just as Sad - 1:51 (Andersson)
  12. Boats - 3:07 (Hellid)
  13. Uffe's Horror Show - 1:18 (Cederlund)
  14. Wreckage - 4:01 (Andersson)

The limited digipak edition includes a bonus CD called Family Favorites , which contains four cover songs (there are two more tracks on the vinyl edition):

reception

In the Metal Hammer , the album achieved the fourth-best average value in the rating list of the new CDs released in the month. Matthias Weckmann, whose rating was 6 out of 7 possible points, said: “ To Ride… may not have the class songs of Wolverine Blues , but a broad spectrum that goes far beyond Death Metal. Which will leave you with a big question mark when you listen to it. ”The fresh mixture of punk attitude and complexity just seems“ a bit confused at the beginning ”and is therefore“ difficult to digest ”. Music colleague Flo V. Schwarz ( Pyogenesis ) made the short statement in the same issue: “They are getting rockier and more, a nice development that the band has made there. Typical Sunlight sound. "

Martin Popoff , author of the book series The Collector's Guide of Heavy Metal , also noticed the complexity that essentially carries the typical “Skogsberg sound”. The milestone of 1990s metal was owed to a surge in creativity that triggered a withdrawal of “Drauflos-Death-Metal” in favor of “Psychedelic Doom”. He awarded the best rating of 10 points.

Jason Birchmeier wrote in his band biography for Allmusic that the material is close to that offered on Wolverine Blues , is fortunately more edgy, but has a less convincing songwriting . His colleague Stephen Thomas Erlewine expressed it more clearly in his review: The guitar work should be called “brutal”, while the songwriting was “sloppy” and “undisciplined”. He awarded 2 ½ of a possible 5 stars.

Frank Albrecht concluded his review with the conclusion: " To Ride, Shoot Straight and Speak the Truth is an all-round successful comeback for the former death metal pioneers." His 8.5 out of 10 possible points were the highest rating in the rock- Hard evaluation table of the March 1997 issue. Overall, the album landed at number 8.

For Janne Stark, the album is just "brilliant". On metal-rules.com , the album, which when it was released, split the band's following due to the final move away from pure death metal, received 4 out of 5 points in a retrospective review in 2014.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alex Hellid To Ride… Promo Alt. Mix 1997 . 1. November 2013; accessed on February 10, 2016.
  2. ↑ a b Holger Stratmann (Ed.): Rock Hard Enzyklopädie . 700 of the most interesting rock bands from the last 30 years. Rock Hard, Dortmund 1998, ISBN 3-9805171-0-1 , Entombed, p. 108 .
  3. ↑ a b Waspman: Entombed. DCLXVI: To Ride, Shoot Straight, and Speak the Truth. In: metal-rules.com. April 2014, accessed on May 14, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Jeremy lrey: Album Review: Entombed AD Back to the Front. In: metalinjections.net. August 15, 2014, accessed May 14, 2016 .
  5. ↑ a b c Janne Stark: The Heaviest Encyclopedia of Swedish Hard Rock and Heavy Metal Ever! Premium Publishing, 2013, ISBN 978-91-89136-56-4 , pp. 266 ff .
  6. ↑ a b Frank Albrecht: Entombed. To Ride, Shoot Straight and Speak the Truth . In: Rock Hard . No. 118 , March 1997, 10 times dynamite, p. 98 .
  7. ↑ a b Stephen Thomas Erlewine: Entombed. To Ride, Shoot Straight and Speak the Truth. AllMusic Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine. In: allmusic.com. Retrieved May 14, 2016 .
  8. ^ Mario Umbach: Entombed: Beer Drinking Swedish Vampires . In: Splitter . June / July, 1997, p. 8 .
  9. ↑ Al Schulha: The Hellacopters (# 71, 08-1998). In: trust-zine.de. March 12, 2007, accessed May 14, 2016 .
  10. ↑ Guerilla Art. Guerilla Art - Discography. In: discogs.com. Retrieved May 14, 2016 .
  11. ↑ Tobias Gerber: Ryan Richards. Funeral for a friend . In: Metal Hammer . March 2009, platter, p. 17 .
  12. ^ Soundcheck in March . In: Metal Hammer . March 1997, Soundcheck, p. 46 f .
  13. ^ Matthias Weckmann: Entombed. To Ride, Shoot Straight and Speak the Truth . In: Metal Hammer . March 1997, Reviews. Scrap, S. 62 .
  14. ^ Matthias Weckmann: Entombed. Cute Swedes . In: Metal Hammer . March 1997, p. 126 f .
  15. ↑ Flo, Pyogenesis . In: Metal Hammer . March 1997, musicians in the soundcheck, p. 47 .
  16. ↑ Martin Popoff: The Collector's Guide of Heavy Metal Volume 3: The Nineties . Collectors Guide Ltd, Burlington, Ontario, Canada 2007, ISBN 978-1-894959-62-9 , To Ride, Shoot Straight and Speak the Truth, pp. 141 .
  17. ↑ Jason Birchmeier: Entombed. Artist Biography by Jason Birchmeier. In: allmusic.com. Retrieved May 14, 2016 .
  18. ↑ March 97 . In: Rock Hard . No. 118 , March 1997, Richter scale, p. 97 .