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The reissue of WOLVERINE BLUES is part of RED's Welcome Home campaign and includes previously unreleased tracks. Entombed: L G Petrov (vocals); Alx Hellid (guitar); U Cederlund (guitar, tambourine); Lars Rosenberg (bass); Nicke Andersson (drums, guitar). Recorded at Sunlight Studios, Stockholm, Sweden during 1992-1993. All songs written by members of Entombed. All tracks have been digitally remastered. Entombed: L-G Petrov (vocals); Alx Hellid (guitar); U Cederlund (guitar, tambourine); Lars Rosenberg (bass); Nicke Andersson (drums, guitar). Recorded at Sunlight Studios, Stockholm, Sweden in 1992 and 1993. All songs written by members of Entombed. Personnel: Nicke Andersson (guitar, drums); Uffe Cederlund (guitar, tambourine); Alex Hellid (guitar). Liner Note Author: Dan Tobin. Recording information: Stockholm, Sweden (1992-1993); Sunlight Studios, Stockholm (1992-1993). Photographer: Z. Benny Rehn. Entombed, one of the premier death metal bands of the early '90s, boldly ventured into new musical territory with Wolverine Blues, the band's third excellent album in a row. Wolverine Blues is such a departure from past efforts, in fact, it's debatable whether this music even qualifies as death metal, given its standard rock characteristics: comprehensible vocals, steady tempos, and verse-chorus-verse songwriting. None of these characteristics is associated with death metal, and indeed, purists might perceive Entombed's development on Wolverine Blues as an abandonment of the very principles that won the band such underground acclaim in the first place. Some purists might even go so far as to consider the album a sellout. Most reasonable listeners, however -- including even the most impassioned death metal purists -- will likely find much to appreciate on Wolverine Blues. It's that impressive. For sure, Entombed's previous albums, Left Hand Path (1990) and Clandestine (1991), were excellent, among the finest death metal efforts of their time, but their stylistic trappings were well evident. The growled vocals, breakneck tempo shifts, and amorphous song structures, to cite a few key characteristics, were fairly inaccessible to the type of mainstream metal listener who would consider Metallica or Pantera extreme. Wolverine Blues, on the other hand, is that rare album brutal enough for the death metal crowd yet at the same time accessible enough for the metal mainstream. For instance, the vocals of Lars-Göran Petrov are mostly comprehensible; however, they're delivered with such ferocity, they're as powerful as, if not more so than, the most guttural death-growl. Likewise, the guitars of Uffe Cederlund and Alex Hellid riff along at a steady tempo, but they're so heavy, they cut like a buzzsaw (as on "Heavens Die") and pummel away like a jackhammer ("Demon"). Along with the drumming of Nicke Andersson, which is hard-hitting yet never to the point of blastbeat, it's the songwriting of Wolverine Blues that is most removed from the confines of death metal. Th
