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Like An Everflowing Stream

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Regardless of your take on the Swedish contributions to metal over the past decade, death metal peaked in that country about the same time (90-93) as it did everywhere else. While Morbid Angel and Deicide festered in the Florida swamps, Suffocation tore up the concrete in New York, and Carcass grossed 'em out in Great Britain; Entombed, Dismember, Carnage, and early versions of Therion and Dark Tranquility created perhaps the most satisfying sounds of the era. Entombed's "Left Hand Path" is the opening salvo and benchmark of Swedish death, and this album is often labelled a copy. Not true. Sure, that album shares with it the crunchy Sunlight studios guitar sound that's somehow simultaneously glistening and dirty, and both bands have a similar hardcore-derived-but-rock-tinged sense of forward motion. However, Dismember have their own sound: more manic and raw than Entombed, and with a different sense of melody. This isn't for fans of polished stuff like Opeth or In Flames, but if you like raw, bristly, propulsive death metal with hints of traditional metal melodicism, this is an essential classic.

After i stumbled upon this CD in '91, Swedish metal haz changed my whole view on the death metal scene. With the release of 'Clandestine' by Entombed, 'Penetralia' by Hypocrisy , and the ruthless 'Destroy, Erase,Improve' by Meshuggah, i have had countless hours of listening enjoyment. All of these are 5 star CD's, and the follow up releasez are also of the highest caliber, but 'Ever Flowing Stream' iz STILL my fav. It iz raw, unpolished, and pulplike , which givez you that urge to slam yer head on the pavement! The bottom line iz....you will be glad you bought it!

YES FIENDZZ...THIS IS BACK IN PRINT!!!!

Maybe the best death metal album ever made, it is scarey to even think about this album that is how bad a$$ it is!!

If you wanna see if you can handle something which only a few can take..then this is the cd for you!!

If played very loud..you will be visited by the J.B.I. or yer local police riot team!! if this was played at max capacity by nasa or something like that..we would no longer have a solar system!!

Try and open yer mind and buy this DISC!!! JUST HIDEOUS!!!

Dismember are (arguably) the archetype for Swedish death metal. The only other band I can think of that can combine technicality with brutality this well would be Edge Of Sanity. The best example I can think of to illustrate my point would be the song Dismembered. It begins with your typical melodeath intro riff and the rhythm thunders ominously in the background. Then the tempo gradually picks up speed after a blast of screams in the background and finally culminates in a virtusitic solo. Then a single voice whispers the word "dismembered" and all hell breaks loose. What follows for the rest of the song is chaotic brutality that makes most death metal bands look about as hardcore as the Backstreet Boys. So many death metal bands hold themselves to mundane limitations: gotta have cookie monster vocals, gotta downtune and play only power cords, gotta write lame lyrics about Satan, etc, etc, etc, it's refreshing to see a band say to hell with trends and do their own thing. That's what I like so much about Dismember. If they want to have a Malsteemish solo, they do so. If they want to do the vocals in a screaming style, they do so. You get the idea, for the most Dismember sticks to brutal death metal but aren't afraid to throw a little technicality and originality in there as well, and I commend them for that. My one complaint is the production kinda sucks but it's an old album so what do you expect.

To sum this review up in one sentence: If your a true fan of death metal you need this album.

It's pretty much straight forward death metal with the occasional melodic solos. The band is really similar to Entombed. It's that garage band, thrashy death metal sound, which is pretty good, raw metal for your metal needs. Solid crushing riffs and buzzsaw guitars in every trask, especially in "Torn Apart". I could feel the music piercing and scratching at my brain, has a nice solo in the middle and end of it. "Justifiable Homicide" has a real good melodic moment in it with the standout awesome solo. Same deal with the song, "Override Overture", a great harmonious solo.T his is not the greatest or most innovative death metal band ever but it is certainly worthy of a couple listens. It represents the fine genre of death metal wonderfully.

Where too many Swedish death metal bands of this era never got beyond basic heavy metal, Dismember created a style of death metal which combined their influences to make an epic melodic form of constantly pummeling metal. Favoring the electric buzzfire production of Sunlight Studios the band use power chords of the higher registers to produce resonant melody, while keeping a fast pace of rhythm with often abrupt explosive changes. Death metal in style, but often beautiful and visionary in the revelations within, this album has poise and power in eloquent aggressive music.

classic swedish death metal.fans of hypocrisy, will want to have this in the collection.its a pure classic songs skin her alive,bleed for me,and so is life. all excellently well produced death metal. swedish death metal is excellent .dismember are excellent and if you do like hypocrisy do give dismember a try casue they all came from that early 90s era which spawn lot of the other acts of today.i highly suggest you get this album ...wicked awesome indeed ...cya

Classic debuts such as this form the core of the Death Metal genre; undiluted blasts of raw punk aggression hide underneath an abyss of guitar tone and a myriad of shifting rhythms. This record perfectly highlights the inadequacy of most of the Death Metal that followed. Moments from 'Override of the Overture' plant the seeds for Melodic Death Metal, but here the melody colours the intensity without impeding it. The songs are as ruthless as they are brutal. The lyrics and imagery are excessive without ever descending into stupidity. This is lean, mean, savage Death Metal of the highest order, and its utterly convincing.

Along with Entombed, Dismember helped to pave way to form the infamous Swedish death metal sound. With their 1991 debut, "Like An Ever Flowing Stream", Dismember plays death metal, but with an added twist to it. First off, the biggest standout in this music is the guitar work. The riffs simply attack the ears with a deep guitar tone. The lead guitar work by Nicke Andersson from Entombed gives us some impressive solos during the music, except in opening track "Override of the Overture", in which guitarist David Blomqvist did a nice job supplying on. Former drummer Fred Estby (who left the band earlier this year, unfortunately) is an outstanding drummer, and he keeps the beat well with the riffs. Matti Kárki, the vocalist, stands out well. This CD best represents how Swedish metal can be well executed and still retain a nice melody in certain tracks.

An overall essential for the death metal fan.

Death metal blended hardcore punk and epic heavy metal, but for the most part was a genre of chromatic, ominous, nihilistic rhythm riffs.

The Swedes took that genre and re-invented it by working elegant yet aggressive melodies into that framework, and birthed some amazing bands starting with Carnage and Nihilist.

In my view, while Entombed is good, the less-celebrated early Dismember work is better for people who love death metal, while Entombed is better for Motorhead fans who want to like death metal.

These songs are both vicious and beautiful, with melodies soaring above the abrasive riffs, making us think of a world beyond the mundane existence where the stakes are higher and conflict is the norm.

While the Swedish death metal scene was so incestuous it's hard to claim any band really took the lead, this CD defined the genre along with the first albums from Carnage, At the Gates, Therion and Unleashed, and still sounds as fresh and vital today.