Entombed "Clandestine (UK, Earache Records, MOSH CD 37)"

Clandestine is the second studio album by Swedish death metal band Entombed. It was released in Europe by Earache Records on 12 November 1991 and in North America by Relativity Records on 11 February 1992. Along with Entombed's preceding album, Clandestine helped establish a distinctively Swedish sound in the death metal genre.

This is the only Entombed album on which original vocalist L.G. Petrov does not appear. Petrov was fired from the band prior to the production of Clandestine due to personal disputes. The band then recorded the Crawl EP with vocalist Orvar Säfström, but he did not remain for the album recording and the song "Crawl" was re-recorded for the Clandestine album. Drummer Nicke Andersson provided vocals on the album while Johnny Dordevic, formerly of Carnage, was hired as the band's vocalist for the ensuing tour.

AllMusic gave Clandestine a rating of four and a half stars. In October 2016, Clandestine was inducted into the Decibel magazine Hall of Fame, becoming the second Entombed album to be featured in the Decibel Hall of Fame.

Track listing

1. "Living Dead" Nicke Andersson, Alex Hellid 4:26
2. "Sinners Bleed" Andersson, Uffe Cederlund 5:10
3. "Evilyn" Andersson, Cederlund, Lars Rosenberg 5:05
4. "Blessed Be" Andersson, Cederlund, Hellid, Rosenberg 4:46
5. "Stranger Aeons" Andersson, Cederlund, Kenny Håkansson 3:25
6. "Chaos Breed" Andersson, Cederlund, Håkansson 4:52
7. "Crawl" Andersson 6:13
8. "Severe Burns" Andersson 4:01
9. "Through the Collonades" Andersson, Håkansson 5:39

Total length: 43:41

Music video:

- Stranger Aeons

Trivia:

- The sample in the song "Living Dead" was taken from the 1964 film The Masque of the Red Death.

- The sample in the song "Sinners Bleed" was taken from the 1932 film The Mummy.

- The sample in the song "Blessed Be" was taken from the 1948 film Rope.

Photo by Lundberg Photographic Studio.

Ddrums were used for parts of the drum set.

Even though the booklet says that Johnny Đorđević was the singer on this album, it was Nicke Andersson who recorded the vocals. According to this interview to Orvar Säfström Nicke recorded the vocals as a reference for Đordevič but the result was so bad that they kept it. The only vocals by Johnny on the album is the phrase "I just want to die" in Sinners Bleed.

Only the American versions and the vinyl versions have the red logo, the LP has the logo, skull and album title embossed. The CD was originally only with the black logo shown here but later this CD was reissued with the yellow logo. A limited edition was released with an embossed cover.

Recording information:

Produced & engineered by Entombed & Tomas Skogsberg.

Recorded at Sunlight Studios, Stockholm, 1991.