| Like an Ever Flowing Stream | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | 28 May 1991 | |||
| Recorded | March 1991 | |||
| Studio | Sunlight Studios, Sweden | |||
| Genre | Death metal | |||
| Length | 31:06 | |||
| Label | Nuclear Blast | |||
| Producer | Tomas Skogsberg and Fred Estby | |||
| Dismember chronology | ||||
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Like an Ever Flowing Stream is the debut album by Swedish death metal band Dismember, released in May 1991.
Overview
The title may refer to the Biblical Book of Amos 5:24, "Let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream" (New International Version). A music video was made for the track "Soon to Be Dead". Since Karmageddon Records owns the rights to the album, it was not re-issued as a digipack disc in 2005 like every other album (except for Where Ironcrosses Grow). Regain re-issued those digipack versions and also remastered the albums while Karmageddon released an exact copy of the 1996 issue by Nuclear Blast (except for two additional bonus tracks).
Nicke Andersson, at the time the drummer in Entombed played all the lead guitars except for the guitar solo on "Override of the Overture", which is played by David Blomqvist.
Reception
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |  [1] |
Modern reviews for Like an Ever Flowing Stream have been positive. AllMusic's Phil Freeman gave the album a rating of five stars and called it "one of the crucial documents of the early-'90s Swedish death metal scene."[1] Adam McCann of Metal Digest noted that, "Alongside Entombed, Grave and Unleashed, this debut album didn't just help place Swedish death metal on the map, it took the flag and slammed it through a lifeless corpse, unveiling the blue and yellow. For many fans of Dismember, Like an Ever Flowing Stream is often regarded as not just their favourite Dismember album, but also one of the best death metal albums of all time."[2]
In 2010, the album was inducted into Decibel magazine's Hall of Fame.[3]
Track listing
All tracks are written by Dismember; arrangements by Dismember
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Override of the Overture" | 5:15 |
| 2. | "Soon to Be Dead" | 1:55 |
| 3. | "Bleed for Me" | 3:20 |
| 4. | "And So Is Life" | 3:11 |
| 5. | "Dismembered" | 5:54 |
| 6. | "Skin Her Alive" | 2:15 |
| 7. | "Sickening Art" | 3:55 |
| 8. | "In Death's Sleep" | 5:21 |
| Total length: | 31:06 | |
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 9. | "Deathevocation" | 4:45 |
| 10. | "Defective Decay" | 4:03 |
| Total length: | 39:54 | |
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 9. | "Deathevocation" | 4:45 |
| 10. | "Defective Decay" | 4:03 |
| 11. | "Torn Apart" | 4:43 |
| 12. | "Justifiable Homicide" | 3:17 |
| Total length: | 47:45 | |
Personnel
Dismember
- Matti Kärki – Vocals
- Robert Senneback – Guitar
- David Blomqvist – Guitar, Lead Guitar on Track 1
- Richard Diamon – Bass
- Fred Estby – Drums
Additional musician
- Nicke Andersson – Lead Guitar on All Tracks Except Track 1 and Dismember logo design
Production
- Produced & Mixed by Tomas Skogsberg & Fred Estby
- Recorded & Engineered by Tomas Skogsberg
- Dan Seagrave – Design, Cover Design
- Gottfrid Jarnefors – Photography
Charts
| Chart (2023) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[4] | 50 |
| Polish Albums (ZPAV)[5] | 76 |
References
- 1 2 Freeman, Phil. "Like an Ever Flowing Stream – Dismember". AllMusic. Retrieved 1 August 2011.
- ↑ "Dismember – 'Like an Ever Flowing Stream' – Metal Digest – The Normless Magazine". metal-digest.com. Retrieved May 29, 2022.
- ↑ "Dismember – "Like and Ever Flowing Stream"". Decibel Magazine. Retrieved 15 January 2017.
- ↑ "Offiziellecharts.de – Dismember – Like an Ever Flowing Stream" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved 1 September 2023.
- ↑ "OLiS - oficjalna lista sprzedaży - albumy" (in Polish). OLiS. Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry. Note: Change the date to 25.08.2023–31.08.2023 under "zmień zakres od–do:". Retrieved 7 September 2023.