Description
2005 re-issue in digipak with 9 live tracks as bonus and 1 cover track that previously only was released on the cassette version
This is one of those EPs that a death metal fan should love, as for example Entombed’s ‘Crawl’. Here we can taste the greatness of Swedish death metal in its strongest period, even if I think that Dismember were the only group that believed in this genre from the early days to the recent days. They didn’t care about the trends, so here we have another fist of pure heaviness. After a very short intro, the fury is unleashed through several up tempo and chainsaw guitars. The vocals, as you know, are not too extreme but quite raging and raw. The production is sharp and follows more or less the same one on the debut album. Here the only more intelligent parts are some more mid paced parts where the band focuses the attention on the pure heaviness through the riffs. ‘Pieces’ is a great song that mixes in a perfect way the mid paced parts with the faster ones, while ‘I Wish You In Hell’ is an incontrollable piece of metal that just by the end decides to slow a bit, filling the mid tempos with a good solo. If ‘Carnal Tomb’ marks a slower part at the beginning, then it restarts under up tempo. The vocals here, as in ‘I Wish You In Hell’ are far more brutal and screamed than on the first song. The solo here is just sick and obscure while in the rhythmic guitars pats we can find a hint of dark melody, that, anyway, is not the one on ‘Massive Killing Capacity’. We all know that hyper fast ‘Soon To Be Dead’ that is truly lethalThis EP doesn’t lose anything in impact and sound if we compare it to their debut.
Track listing:
1. Intro
2. Pieces
3. I Wish You Hell
4. Carnal Tomb
5. Soon To Be Dead
6. Torn Apart-Carnage cover
7. Pieces-live in Stockholm 1993
8. Reborn In Blasphemy-live in Stockholm 1993
9. Override Of The Overture-live in Stockholm 1993
10. Carnal Tomb-live in Stockholm 1993
11. Skin Her Alive-live in Stockholm 1993
12. Case # Obscene-live in Stockholm 1993
13. I Wish You Hell-live in Stockholm 1993
14. Bleed For Me-live in Stockholm 1993
15. Deranged From Blood-live in Stockholm 1993