Entombed

Uprising

Slowly fading out

Review Score:

(6/10)
I guess you can call me a fan of Entombed as I find some previous albums by them, such as "Clandestine", "Wolverine Blues" & "To Ride, Shoot Straight (...)", to be groundbreaking and standouts in their genre. Some longhaired ex-fans always complain that they don't play death metal anymore and that they never make the same album twice. Well, kids, that's what's called progression and development. Nowadays there's much more influences from Stooges than from Obituary and you should appreciate this fact if you're going to purchase this. That said, this new album seems to be a bit nostalgic in the sense that its rawer than its two predecessors and while it's not the second part of "Wolverine Blues" it certainly tries to copy the feeling on that album. The categorization of death n' roll still goes with this band and someone who heard it with me thought it was an old Unsane record.

Pure energy and the knowledge of experienced musicians has always been the bottomline in Entombed, and after "To Ride..." was released and drummer/songwriter Nicke Andersson left to reach even more stardom in The Hellacopters, Entombed were left with guitarists Cederlund and Hellid to pen their songs. What seems to be their problem so far is that they don't manage to come up with ten good riffs or melodies for one album. On the last full-length "Same Difference" there were about 5 totally killer tracks and the rest was total garbage and a waste of production money. "Uprising" has the same problem though the garbage doesn't smell as bad as last time. Catchy pieces like "Something out of nothing" and "Won't back down" makes up for more disappointing tracks where you try to believe that the guys at last will find the long-awaited killer refrain but where they just play the same line over and over again. I take it as a bad omen that the best song on here is the genius cover of Dead Horse's "Scottish Hell". **(*) on the barometer.

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