Wolverine Blues

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Wolverine Blues
Entombed studio album

Publication
(s)

September 1993

Label (s) Earache Records / Columbia Records

Format (s)

CD, LP

Genre (s)

Death 'n' Roll

Title (number)

10

running time

35:10

occupation
  • Bass: Lars Rosenberg

production

Tomas Skogsberg

Studio (s)

Sunlight Studio , Stockholm

chronology
Clandestine
(1991) 		Wolverine Blues To Ride, Shoot Straight and Speak the Truth
(1997)

Wolverine Blues is the third studio album by the Swedish band Entombed . It was released on Earache Records in September 1993 . The album is seen as defining the style of Death 'n' Roll .

style

In the scene that was already dominated by the beginnings of Alternative Metal , Entombed - despite the first signs of a somewhat more accessible sound on its predecessor Clandestine - remained largely true to its own Death Metal sound. Entombed was one of the first death metal bands, at least the first more well-known, to add clear rock 'n' roll elements to their music . With slightly bluesy and groovy riffs , which have been compared to those of Tony Iommi or Motörhead , there was a slightly more melodic growling than before from singer Lars-Göran Petrov . The band also referred to their new sound as the "Blues of the 90s".

In terms of production, the band's typical Sunlight sound was retained. Some sampled passages with excerpts from Hellraiser III and Flatliners were left out on later editions than the original, because the record company feared legal conflicts.

The album is a book by James Ellroy , entitled The Big Nowhere (dt. Blutschatten ajar), which is about a psychopathic murderer who by a wolverine is obsessed. The texts mostly deal with moral depravity and, in a way that is critical of religion, for example Christianity ( out of hand : "Jesus Christ, lord of flies , in disguise ...") or civilization in general ( Contempt : "Before my eyes - lies - civiliesation [a Play on words with "lie", and "civilization"], ancient and wicked, destruction in creation ... "). Most of the lyrics are from guitarist Alex Hellid. The piece Heaven's Die is dedicated to Aloysius Bertrand . The lyrics are by Hellacopters bassist Dick Hakansson.

History of origin

The album was recorded like the previous ones in the Sunlight Studio in Stockholm in the winter of 1992/93. In addition to Alex Hellid, drummer and guitarist Nicke Andersson was responsible for the musical style change , who left the band after another album to continue with his band Hellacopters. In the spring of 1993 the EP Hollowman was released in advance , which already contained some songs from the album, like the title track still without lyrics.

reception

While the pre-EP was criticized quite harshly at times, the reviews for Wolverine Blues were all the more positive. Frank Albrecht saw Entombed in Rock Hard "in the usual form", they had found the "ultimate mixture of Death Metal and pure Rock'n'Roll". Nevertheless, it takes “a few runs” to get used to the new sound. He awarded 8.5 out of ten points. The magazine also listed the album in 2007 at number 494 in its Top 500, Andreas Himmelstein called it "one of the most innovative works" of the entire death metal scene. As a result, bands like Gorefest switched to a similar sound, and the sound influenced groups like Six Feet Under . On the Allmusic.com website , Jason Birchmeier spoke of the “third impressive album in a row”. Wolverine Blues is one of the rare albums that is brutal enough for the death metal listener, but accessible enough for the metal mainstream, for which Metallica and Pantera are "extreme". It awarded 4.5 out of five stars and the “AMG Album Pick” award. The German magazine Visions led Wolverine Blues on its list of the 55 best Swedish rock albums published in 2019.

Track list

  1. Eyemaster - 3:21 (Music: Andersson / Text: Hellid)
  2. Rotten Soil - 3:27 (Music: Andersson / Cederlund / Text: Hellid)
  3. Wolverine Blues - 2:16 (Music: Andersson / Cederlund / Text: Hellid)
  4. Demon - 3:22 (Music: Cederlund / Text: Hellid)
  5. Contempt - 4:34 (Music: Hellid / Text: Hellid)
  6. Full of Hell - 3:24 (Music: Hellid / Text: Hellid)
  7. Blood Song - 3:25 (Music: Cederlund / Rosenberg / Andersson / Text: Cederlund / Hellid)
  8. Hollowman - 4:29 (Music: Andersson / Text: Andersson)
  9. Heaven's Die - 4:17 (Music: Andersson / Text: Hakansson )
  10. Out of Hand - 3:07 (Music: Rosenberg / Hellid / Cederlund / Text: Andersson / Hellid)

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  1. ↑ a b c d e Rock Hard (Ed.): Best of Rock and Metal , p. 10
  2. ^ A b rockhard.de: Wolverine Blues review by Frank Albrecht
  3. ↑ a b Jan Jaedike: "Jesus was cool!", In: Rock Hard, No. 77, October 1993, pp. 36–37.
  4. ^ Rockhard.de: Hollowman review by Frank Albrecht
  5. ↑ allmusic.com: allmusic.com: Wolverine Blues review by Jason Birchmeier
  6. ↑ various authors: export world champion . In: Visions , issue 312, page 50

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