Hi folks! I thought this week it would be fun to highlight a Swedish gem of an album that was legendary on the Metal Archives. For years this album had a perfect 100 rating with like 8 reviews. Let me know your thoughts on this one and favourite songs.

True classic, i love the lyrics and compositions

Hidden gem, thanks! I didn't know this band or album, is pretty good. It's a little bit more melodic than stuff like Dismember or Entombed, but less than the Gothenburg sound like In Flames or Dark Tranquility. It reminds me a little bit of Illdisposed, a Danish death metal band from the 90s. I like this sound in between melodeath and OSDM with a touch of death/doom like the first Paradise Lost albums, good stuff I recommend it to any fan of death metal.

Monster album. The Lost Breed being my favourite track off the Album

There is a Patrick Engel remaster that slightly lifts the volume of the CD. Best version for me, better than the Crypta Rec. CD (digipak from 2017 with the remaster).

Another big favorite! You've been killing it with these. Hope some people check it out and love it like I do!

Thanks for reminding me that this album exists, haven't heard it in roughly 15 years.

Thanks dude! Appreciate the feedback. I thought this would be a fun semi-obscure pick.

I actually heard this album for the first time early last year. I was missing out. Definitely one of my favorites now.

I know I'm on my own with this opinion, but I think this might be the most overrated death metal record ever (at least amongst the underground crowd). I've listened to it a bunch of times and have never found anything memorable, unique, or even all that interesting about it. There's nothing wrong with it, but I can't understand why it had a streak of 100% reviews.

It's such a shame that this album came (relatively) too late, since by 1994 black metal, melodeath and death n' roll had taken over the Swedish scene. If it would have come circa 91-92, Gorement would be held in the same regard as Entombed or Dismember. Love the slower tempos and doomy atmosphere.

It's impossible. They've said in interviews that the biggest influence on it and the big impetus for them writing it was Paradise Lost's Gothic and when you hear what they were doing in their early demos before they heard it, it's clear that they never would have come to this sound on their own without that push. I'm just glad it happened at all and that most diehard death metal people seem to have gravitated to the album over the years!

Those are some goofy vocals. Killer bass though.

It was actually recorded in (early) 1993, and the release was delayed for over a year, which is unfortunate. It sounds like a 1992/93 record to me.

I don't love this album like many people seem to do. I can think of several similar-ish albums which I would take over this one in a heartbeat, but it is a good record and deserves its cult status.
The less said about Pipers Dawn the better though.

It's always awesome to discover new old stuff like this, thanks!


Huh? Sounds like standard death metal vocals to me.

Classic album! I was about to buy Within the Shadow of Darkness - The Complete Recordings when it came out but I heard the remaster was really badly fucked up by Swanö (supposedly even a Windows-sound in one of the songs). Just realized there is a reissue of Within the Shadow of Darkness out now, anyone knows if the mix is fixed?

This was one of those bands that I didn't get at the time, crappy name and shitty album cover possibly had something to do with it, I dunno.
Got the 2CD comp when it came out in 2012 due to having been on a binge around that time looking for lost underground death metal gems.
To me it's just a interesting little one-off curio that has some cool ideas but the execution is lacking. The two things that instantly spring to mind when listening are Paradise Lost and shitty vocals.
But it's a good and promising debut that they unfortunately never developed from. They're one of those band that took their influences and made a interesting mix but didn't nail it, tho hopefully they influence others and maybe they will.
Is it worth 100%? Fuck no.

Classic album. Worthy of every bit of praise. Sunlight sound meets early Paradise Lost......whats not to love??

I wonder how many only know of Gorement because Bloodbath nicked their logo.
What was the deal with that anyway?

Says on their MA page that the logo is a tribute to Gorement.

That would be an excellent combination, I wish they'd recorded this album at Sunlight (or somewhere else in Sweden where they knew what they were doing).
I dislike how Delta Studio produced death metal on those old Crypta albums, and Gorement suffered a bit from these circumstances in my view.