Entombed A.D. - Back To The Front - review
Entombed A.D. - Back To The Front - review
Tracklist
01. Kill To Live02. Bedlam Attack
03. Pandemic Rage
04. Second To None
05. Bait And Bleed
06. Waiting For Death
07. Eternal Woe
08. Digitus Medius
09. Vulture And The Traitor
10. The Underminer
11. Soldier Of No Fortune
A review by
Doc G. July 27, 2014
What can you expect when four members of Entombed go off and record an album together? An Entombed album. Duh. It's the pinnacle of crunch meets groove you've come to expect from these death metal veterans. The riffs are, once again, the real strong point for this group. Each and every lick on Back To The Front is of hook-quality. Those are just the rhythm tracks! Many of the menacing melodic leads are delivered in odd time signatures, bringing to mind a mix between the melodies on Sadist's Season In Silence and Sodom's In War And Pieces.
Despite the incredibly thoughtful, thorough guitar work, topped with thick, slick production values Back To The Front has a faint D.I.Y aura to it derived from its simplistic approach. There's so much strong riff-writing in here they probably could have injected a bunch of filler and had two or three "ok" albums worth of material. Instead, we're presented with a tight little machine of an album that goes right for the throat and doesn't get stale. In other words; awesome riffs + strong, efficient compositions = awesome Entombed album...er...awesome Entombed A.D. album.
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I liked Left Hand Path and Wolverine Blues a lot back in the day, I was debating whether or not to give this a spin, for shits and giggles. Your review has solidified my decision. Thanks.
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I was positively surprised when I heard this album. It's really really great, a lot better than I expected it to be.
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Posts: 6682 Quote: Legal dream team. In other news, I had some doubts about this, but now I'll have to go for it.
---- "Earth is small and I hate it" - Lum Invader I'm the Agent of Steel.
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Ugh, I'm listening to it and nothing special till now (half of it). It's pretty boring tbh. I'll pass
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After all the positive things I heard about this album, DAMN waht a disappointment it turned out to be.
---- Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.) 05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996 
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Posts: 6209 Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 15.09.2014 at 11:20 For you perhaps. It's a great album in my opinion.
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