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Fast, violent, but above all raw. These are the three adjectives fitting to describe this album, the debut in 1991 of Dismember. The Swedish band was born under the protective wing of Nicke Anderssen, who recorded all guitar solo parts on the album. This fact should give an idea of the technical limitation that the five guys had at the time: the album is poorly played and even worse recorded, but made with a lot of attitude and inspiration. Inspiration that obviously comes from the album "Left Hand Path" by Entombed, but revisited in a faster and rougher key; the chainsaw riffs are extremely fast and chase each other throughout the album, while the bass emits a slurred sound that serves as a backdrop, and basically, you can only hear the snare drum (ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta).
The tempo changes are few but placed at the right moments (this is not a cerebral band, neither by nature, technique, nor attitude). The growl singing is not among my favorites, too little refined, but it fits wonderfully in the album. The lyrics, trivial and childishly splatter enough so as not to have to say, "I’m listening to something serious and demanding, I must concentrate," make you smile. The best songs: the initial "Override Of The Overture", very fast with an unmistakable riff. Long and varied enough to be entertaining. Remarkable "And So Is Lie", good songwriting, very engaging. The best one perhaps is "Dismembered", which begins with a classic metal solo of a minute and a half, very touching, but suddenly a voice whispers ". . . dismembered" and panic is unleashed. . . ! Semi/grind outburst with wild screams launches into the very fast and tense song. Applause! Also excellent "Sickening Art" and "Skin Her Alive", they keep the album at high levels. The concluding "In Death's Sleep" focuses more on atmosphere, with almost church-like choirs and sentimental solos (not pilu-pilu-pilu). Obviously, after two minutes of atmosphere, the guys are thoroughly bored and kickstart the chainsaws.
Worth mentioning: four tasty bonus tracks, particularly "Defective Decay" where a more "brutal" growl is experimented with. But above all, the hilarious photos (though maybe they didn’t think they were funny) in which the five are immortalized shirtless and covered in (?) blood. There is a certain embarrassment (for them) in looking at that photo, but that's what death metal is like, beware of taking yourself too seriously! In short: an album for those who want to listen to simple, noisy, fast, violent, slurred death metal, without overthinking, with a buzzing sound (basically not compressed like the stuff coming from Morrisound). Fundamental, it’s history.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 Override of the Overture (05:15)
Override the overture
Behold the overwhelming power
Trampled and fucking mangled
By the hordes of terror
The process of death is our fate to be
From the skies blood drips like rain
Tell me how I suffer, tell me how I'll die
My arms stretched out in eternal pain
The life that we knew drowned in the stream of death
The agony within tears my worthless being
Crushed
By the blasphemous horror inside
Enter a world
Beyond this fucking global tomb
Mesmerized
By the visions of things past and gone
My death arrives
My fate to be it must be done
Laid to rest
Shut my eyes
Live no more
Die a countless times
To the burial ground
Our flesh are bound
Our souls will live on
With the powers beyond
At the end
I'm still so cold inside
Once again
I would like to share my memories of life
Show me
The realm where nothing dies
If such a place exists
Please guide my eyes
02 Soon to Be Dead (01:54)
Agonized terrified horrified
Emotions brutalized
Crucified nailed to the cross
With spikes through my hands
I shall die upon this cross
All by myself
Salvations lost
Soon to be dead
Consider me as another victim
Of their plans
But my choice
Is not your <i>[fucking]</i> jesus christ
Now I'm dead alone and
Rotting on this cross
But I'll be back
Hell is what I want
Hell is what I get
In the fires I'll burn
But there's nothing I'll regret
Hell awaits me
My soul is raped
I will get them I will kill them
At the end of time
As long they are free
Preaching their shit
I'll never find peace
03 Bleed for Me (03:21)
Slowly slicing your body
Wondering what's inside
A psychopath addicted to flesh
Now I'm taking your life
Hacking through your organs
Constantly watching your eyes
I gotta see in your mind
What happens when you die
Bleed for me
Let me see you suffer
Die for me
I love to hear you scream
Dreaming of a death so violent
Sanity is Draining from me
I'm forced to murder and slaughter
By the visions inside my head
Laughing as you die
Please make me stop
If blood is what it takes
I'll just let it flow
(Bleed for me
Let me see you suffer
Die for me
I love to hear you scream)
04 And So Is Life (03:10)
Bitter bloodstained tears
Filling my saddened eyes
From personal fears
And all once told lies
The anger inside
Waiting for tomorrow
Sinful suicide
Wrapped in the cause of sorrow
At the fiery gates
With hate I resign
Though I'll be forever more
Even the dead can die
Marching on and on
Experience the dismal fate
Through the hellish scorn
Gather beyond the gates
Reality now slips away
Death is the only way
The moonlight is my blanket
And my bed is a grave
Life ends so sadly
With tears pain and grief
All my loved ones gone
And I'm rotting with belief
And so is life
At it's end
Never to be
More again
Entered it all
With belief
A (fucking) life
I never lived
I end my life
I (fucking) kill myself
Accept this death
With open arms
A piercin' pain
When I cut it all
From life to death
I breathe my last breath
And so is life
At it's end
Never to be
More again
And so is life!
06 Skin Her Alive (02:14)
Haunted by my conscious
Living my life in hell
Didn't (fucking) hesitate
When I moved in for the kill
Screams echoed in the distance
And I cannot ignore
Smiling at the memories
When I slaughtered the whore
Skin here alive
Time has come to confess
I did it for the thrill
I had never [sings: "would never had"] dreamt of
That it would be so nice to kill
Blood colours my thoughts
Slipping out of time
Murder is my crime
Skin here (fucking) alive
07 Sickening Art (03:55)
Twisted thoughts in a shape of death
Blood is staining on my hands
Deranged mind, rotting soul
Homicidal need leads my way
Warped lust, sickly obsessed
Prepare yourself for the end
Blood spurts from the wounds
As I hack my way through your skull
Crunching bones, screams of pain
Violent death after hours of torture
Bloody corpse put away
A garden party on festering human remains
Stewing limbs in the fridge
Severe dismemberment
Psychotic ecstasy
Frenzied disembowelment
A end to your misery
Piles of flesh
Is all that's left
Suffer now
A grotesque death
(Severe dismemberment
Psychotic ecstasy
Frenzied disembowelment
A end to your misery)
08 In Death's Sleep (05:21)
[spoken:]
From dream to dream we have always been
Like an ever flowing stream
As I become one with the earth
By soul has passed the rebirth
In this world I leave my flesh to rot
No regrets, this is my lot
Ashes to ashes
Dust to death
Dark recollections of my past life
Memories haunt me in black'n white
Divine death now descends
Burning as my existence ends
In death I will sleep
Floating deep
From dying heaven
To living hell
A travel through ancient times
Witness only what the dead shall see
Walk among the dead
As my body's still on my death bed
(In death I will sleep
Floating deep
From dying heaven
To living hell)
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