{"id":9545,"date":"2011-09-09T00:00:54","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T00:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=9545"},"modified":"2013-06-01T14:04:03","modified_gmt":"2013-06-01T14:04:03","slug":"album-review-entrails-the-tomb-awaits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-entrails-the-tomb-awaits\/","title":{"rendered":"ENTRAILS – The Tomb Awaits (2011) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

ENTRAILS
The Tomb Awaits<\/strong><\/span>
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\nF.D.A. Recotz (2011)<\/span>
Rating: 6\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Mmmm… well, it looks like Entombed\u2019s 1990 classic album Left Hand Path<\/em>. The logo, the cover art and the sound is very much Swedish, which is no real surprise in the sense that these guys are<\/em> Swedish, but I\u2019m wondering why this is such an imitation?<\/p>\n

I hear some reviews crying that this is no Entombed rip-off, but I\u2019m not convinced by their pleas. From that loose, chainsaw guitar sound to the gravelled vocals it\u2019s unlikely this would exist if Entombed hadn\u2019t. Sure, it\u2019s okay paying homage to something, but to dress it up as something similar just because there is a revival happening just isn\u2019t on.<\/p>\n

Sure, these guys have existed in some form since the early 90s, but what seems clear is that they are still stuck there, insistent on churning out what they probably called \u201cretro death metal\u201d, but when you hear the fuzzy rage of opener \u2018Unleashed Wrath\u2019 you\u2019ll be thinking of Entombed, Dismember etc.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s not to say that this album is a complete rip-off, as the band achieve some interesting groove-based dynamics, particularly on the chug-fest \u2018Crawling Death\u2019 which features an interesting piano injection to create some type of dismal horror film soundtrack. But soon it shifts back into that fuzzy juggernaut we\u2019ve become not just accustomed to, but slightly irritated by.<\/p>\n

Lyrically it\u2019s pretty na\u00efve, with tales of the macabre, as one would expect from a lot of death metal acts… if it were 1990! But this is 2011 and I\u2019m not hearing enough here to rip my head from my shoulders.<\/p>\n

\u2018Eaten By The Dead\u2019 is your basic mid-tempo riff monster with a torturous solo 90 seconds in. But vocally it\u2019s the usual gruff, chesty phlegm-lined gurgle. \u2018To Live Is To Rot\u2019 offers us some more quicksand sludge, but randomly slap any track on and you\u2019ll find a whole host of Swedish influences, which, if you ask me, are all over this record making me wonder why I\u2019d listen to this opus when there was so much stuff, and far better, recorded two decades previous.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m guessing that Entrails have reformed at the right time and found their niche in 2011, what with the death and thrash metal revival taking place. But so many of these bands are formulaic and mediocre and I find it hard to praise such a band when in 1991 they probably would have been swallowed by the far more accomplished acts. Call me harsh, but when Entombed offered the left hand path, Entrails, logo and all, should have taken the right one!<\/p>\n

Neil Arnold<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ENTRAILSThe Tomb Awaits F.D.A. Recotz (2011)Rating: 6\/10 Mmmm… well, it looks like Entombed\u2019s 1990 classic album Left Hand Path. The logo, the cover art and the sound is very much Swedish, which is no real surprise in the sense that these guys are Swedish, but I\u2019m wondering why this is such an imitation? I hear […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,483],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-entrails"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9545"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11974,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9545\/revisions\/11974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}