Collection of great, fair, bad

I only recently got into this album, despite having owned it for over a year. Still, if you're just beggining to get into death metal... Still, this EP holds pretty well on its own terms.

Entombed are or were among the great death metal bands that came out of Scandanavia in the early 90's. These guys know death metal and they know their instruments. Petrov's vocals have grown on me, his deep growls are unequalled in the death metal world (ok...so Obituary are close behind). This ep might not be the best place to start if your curious about Entombed death metal roots. My friend played me Left hand path and it is their definitive raw masterpiece. Still this ep really does have some great songs like Hollowman and Put off the scent. It has a decent track like bonehouse, and well the rest is pretty flat. Wovlerine Blues is the instrumental version of the same song that appears on Wolverine blues the album. This song has a pretty decent riff, but the whole tune is ruined due to some guy (probably a local drunk) moaning on and on about Wolverines and their habitat, diet etc, though it can be quite amusing at first, it gets boring really quick. The two other tracks serprent speech and hellraiser are just awful. Serpent speech sounds so uninspired and hellraiser was meant to be a spooky old school horror movie type intrumental but it's so ...[bad] I almost regret purchasing the whole EP after hearing it.

Beware of this one, the great songs are GREAT, the other ones are not good enough for band with this kind of talent.

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