REVIEW: MURDER SQUAD - UNSANE, INSANE AND MENTALLY DERANGED

 

MURDER SQUAD - UNSANE, INSANE AND MENTALLY DERANGED (Pavement Music - 2001): Death metal the way it used to be in the beginning of the nineties ! Including that muddy sound that was present in the first releases of Entombed, Dismember and Carnage. This is a side project of four famous musicians whose main bands are Entombed (Uffe Cederlund and Peter Stjärnvind) and Dismember (Matti Karki and Rickard Cabeza). The result is similar to what this guys did in the first recordings of the above mentioned bands but with a clearer sound and more experience in the composition of death metal songs. Album opener "Slowly Burnt to Death" is a clear demonstration of what you can find in this recording (and it makes me remember a song from ex Entombed/Therion member Lars Rosemberg´s project when he came to Argentina). Speed, growls, hyper fast leads, deathly slow rhthms, is like watching a catalogue of the best features in the death metal genre (and they sound extremely swedish too). Favorite Tracks: "Twisted High", "The Return of the Rotten" (both musically and lyrically) and "Bloodfreak". Contact: bloodfreaks@hotmail.com