Released October 4, 1993 Artist Entombed Label Earache Records | Length 35:10 Release date 4 October 1993 Producer Tomas Skogsberg | |
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Wolverine Blues
(1993) DCLXVI To Ride Shoot Straight and Speak the Truth
(1997) Genres Death metal, Death 'n' roll, Groove metal Similar Entombed albums, Death metal albums | ||
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Wolverine Blues is the third studio album by Swedish heavy metal band Entombed, released on October 4, 1993 by Earache Records. The album displays a completely different sound from previous releases, combining elements of hard rock, heavy metal, and hardcore while still retaining much of their traditional, death metal roots, in a style that would later be known as death 'n' roll. The band also adopted a mid-tempo groove metal style for this release, similar to that of American heavy metal band Pantera.
Contents
Entombed eyemaster full dynamic range edition
Marvel
One version of Wolverine Blues was released with Marvel Comics' character Wolverine on the cover, despite Entombed never wanting their album to be associated with the superhero. Earache Records, without the band's permission, had made a deal with Marvel in order to use Wolverine to promote the album to a more mainstream audience. This edition included a Wolverine mini-comic inside the CD booklet. The Marvel edition was also heavily edited, with the track "Out of Hand" being removed entirely. A limited number of early pressings of the album contained audio samples taken from films (most notably Flatliners and Hellraiser III) which were subsequently removed from later pressing due to record label fears of potential legal action over their unlicensed use.
Reception
In 2005, Wolverine Blues was ranked number 494 in Rock Hard magazine's book of The 500 Greatest Rock & Metal Albums of All Time. The guitar magazine Guitar World labeled Wolverine Blues as "1994’s best death metal effort and quite possibly the finest death metal album of this decade."
Credits
Songs
1Eyemaster3:20
2Rotten Soil3:26
3Wolverine Blues2:15