Entrails - The Tomb Awaits

Entrails
The Tomb Awaits
2011 Dark Descent Records
There's a reason why Entrails sound like they're straight out of 1990s Sweden. It's because they are. Things didn't go so well for them the first time around, but they're giving it another shot. And what a shot it is. The debut, "Tales from the Morgue" was awesome. But "The Tomb Awaits" blows it away in every conceivable way. I'm sure that to write music like this, Entrails had to follow the left hand path. The songs here will drag you down into the grave, where you'll have many indecent and obscene dark recollections. The songs here are a reflection of the band's darkside, and it's plain to these ears that for them, nothing but death remains. None of these tracks are unorthodox. They're all in a very traditional Stockholm-era styled sound that cuts through the nocturnal silence with ease. No one can call the music of Entrails soulless, and when it comes to old school Swedish death metal in 2011, you'll never see ... or hear anyone doing it better than this. As we Americans say, they knocked it out of the park with this album, and they did it on every level. Old school brutality, old school death metal... it just doesn't get much better than this.