Left Hand Path (Album)
Occupation
- Vocals: Lars- Göran Petrov
- Guitar, Bass: Ulf Cederlund
- Guitar: Alex Hellid
- Drum / Bass: Nicke Andersson
Left Hand Path (English: Path to the left hand) is the debut album by the Swedish band Entombed.
It was released in June 1990 on Earache Records and is considered a style icon and trend for the Swedish Death Metal.
Music style
Stylistically, the album combines elements of grindcore, as of contracted also on Earache Records Napalm Death, with the more elaborate song structures of U.S. death metal bands like Death, Obituary and Morbid Angel. For this, the deep under certain guitars came with the specific sound produced by a Boss HM -2 pedal, and Peavey amp with all knobs to ten, strongly emphasized the Skogsberg in the production, as well as the brutal, drawn up in treble and bass range of drum sounds - a mixture that has been perfected on the following album Clandestine. The deep growl of Lars- Göran Petrov can only see a few places variations when it briefly goes about in clear vocals or distorted stronger than on the two CD bonus tracks.
Some super-fast grindcore deposits remain the exception of certain of heavy riffing plate on which stands out in particular the title track with a break and subsequently, initiated by a synthesizer melody mid-tempo part. It is based on a melody from the horror movie Phantasm of 1979.
Genesis
In September 1989, Entombed had recorded their first demo under the new name, it was entitled But Life Goes On. Previously, the members had published in their previous band Nihilist three demos, including Tomas Skogsberg, who is also responsible for the production of Left Hand Path, taken two. Left Hand Path, taken in December 1989, is essentially a result of this process. The bass tracks share Cederlund guitarist and drummer Andersson, for David Blomquist, who had taken over the part on But Life Goes On, was returned to Dismember. Lars Rosenberg took over the four-string after the recording of the album, even if it is listed on later editions as a bass player. As a songwriter alongside Andersson and Cederlund also the original bass player of nihilist, Leif " Leffe " Cuzner called.
Texts
The lyrics on Left Hand Path, written by Andersson and Hellid are often attributed to the Gore area, others convey apocalyptic impressions, as well as the verse in the booklet:
"What HAS is created you can destroy - bring to the light that day of joy. "
Although the band has recourse in the first verse of the title track to Anton Szandor LaVey's Satanic Bible, explained guitarist Cederlund time for acting individualistic philosophy of the band:
" ... To us God is a puppet who each person controls to Their Own rules. We Are not atheist, christian or satanist or anything like that, it's just our way of creating a debate on the actual meaning of religion, heaven and hell, good and evil and subjects like that. "
Reception
Thanked Left Hand Path at time of writing good, but not euphoric reviews, about Frank Albrecht of Rock Hard, the 10 points awarded 8.5 and still held a production of American - caliber Morrisound desirable, the album in retrospect is with superlatives like " classic" and " reference work " considered. On metal.de the album received the 2007 10 out of 10 points on Allmusic.com it received 4.5 out of 5 stars.
In the book " Best of Rock & Metal" of the German Rock Hard magazine Left Hand Path finished in 176th place in the opinion of the editorial 's 500 best albums. In the February issue of 2010, the board of the Rock Hard behind Leprosy of Death to No 2 in the top 25 death metal albums was chosen.
Title list
Video
An essential component of the success of the first Entombed plate was the rotated by Kim Hansen music video that the band alongside live scenes among others showed a monumental cross on the largest cemetery in Stockholm Skogskyrkogården.
Artwork
Inside Cover the motif of the band before the cross originally was coined by photographer Micke Lundstrom, it was next to the Cover of the death-metal artist Dan Seagrave to the identification of the band at this stage.