ENTOMBED

Release Year: 1999
Artist Origin: SWE
Style: menacing straightforward expressive death metal

legendary Swedish death metal trendsetters took their monstrous music to the next plateau with this landmark sophomore longplay [1991], delivered during a crucial period for the still-gestating international death metal scene, creeping into downtuned bludgeoning sound, full of hasty wicked tempos, spine-tingling dual guitars, and menacing, macabre leads, adding a layer of rough intensity and drama that shapes the songs into something aggressive and chaotic, but still vibrant and organically throbbing, while drummer Nicke Andersson steps up to the microphone to temporary replace L.G. Petrov - his gruff, hell-scarred ferocious voice is an integral part of such timeless anthems as Crawl or Stranger Aeons