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Despite being known as "pioneers of Rot & Roll", Entombed are not merely good-time necrophiles with low-slung guitars. Morning Star, the Swedes' seventh full-length studio album, proves this point immediately, opening with the complex, thoughtful and incredibly powerful "Chief Rebel Angel". Mixing subtle, tinkling piano with a crunching guitar and crashing drums, then cutting sudden choral stabs into a pained and hugely physical vocal, it mutates constantly, recalling the excellent Bathory while also explaining why Entombed were chosen to soundtrack the Swedish Royal Ballet's production Unreal Estate. Lyr
Despite being known as "pioneers of Rot & Roll", Entombed are not merely good-time necrophiles with low-slung guitars. Morning Star, the Swedes' seventh full-length studio album, proves this point immediately, opening with the complex, thoughtful and incredibly powerful "Chief Rebel Angel". Mixing subtle, tinkling piano with a crunching guitar and crashing drums, then cutting sudden choral stabs into a pained and hugely physical vocal, it mutates constantly, recalling the excellent Bathory while also explaining why Entombed were chosen to soundtrack the Swedish Royal Ballet's production Unreal Estate. Lyrically too, Morning Starrises above today's standard metal fare. Both "Young Man Nihilist" and "Year One Now" have clear socio-political leanings, while "Ensemble of The Restless" makes reference to the appropriately bleak work of Leonard Cohen. That's not to say Entombed always put brains before brawn, because the album races past at thrilling speed, with the vocal sometimes unashamedly descending to a simple shriek of "Die! Die! Die!" But the churning, menacing "I For An Eye" (an exploration of "true evil") and "When It Hits Home" (an almost gloating study of loneliness and alienation) more than make up for the occasional lapse into empty-headed thrashing. Not a masterpiece, but a rush nonetheless. --Dominic Wills
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Manufacturer: Music for Nations
Release date: 3 September 2001
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 5016583126520
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