Entombed - Monkey Puss (Live in London)
The press release says: “This is Entombed at their jaw-dropping best.” Not even close. I mean, you’d sure think that it would be, since it was recorded in 1992, after Clandestine came out and L.G. had rejoined the band. Since I consider Clandestine to be one of the best Death Metal albums of all time (maybe the best), I was freaking out at the idea of hearing the once-mighty L.G. try his lungs on those tunes. When I saw Entombed on this tour here in the US, it was before he had rejoined, and if I remember correctly, Alex was doing the singing. He’s a Hell of a lot better than L.G., let me assure you. I just don’t understand this at all. On Left Hand Path, L.G. was the definition of controlled brutality, but even by 1992 his voice was apparently shot. On the older songs he does slightly better, but the Clandestine stuff is really terrible. He forgets the words in quite a few places, and generally does a piss-poor, feeble, off time job, as if he wasn’t into it at all. No wonder they had to change their sound so radically; L.G. couldn’t sing Death Metal any more. Even the music seems a little off in some places, almost as if L.G. were bringing the whole band down. I hate to just pick on the guy (well, not really), but he basically ruins what I had thought would have to be a flawless live album. And what the fuck is “Monkey Puss” supposed to mean?
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