Alpha Safari

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Man, I've been meaning to make a post about this band forever. Talking about Entombed in the chat today reminded me about it again, so here it is. This album is one of my all time faves, and it's weird as fuck. Featuring members of Entombed and Misery Loves Co, this Swedish 4-piece started life with the name Washoe. They played a few shows and even recorded a demo under that name before switching over to Alpha Safari. In 2004, they released their only CD, Commercial Suicide, and I don't even know how to describe it. It's all over the place, every song is different than the other. I love the production as well, its incredibly crisp but completely raw and in the red at the same time. It's super energetic and at the same time it's devastatingly depressing. The best way I can describe this is, imagine if you took Hot Snakes and cross-bred them with Fugazi & Rocket From The Crypt, add in some Queens Of The Stone Age & some Dinosaur Jr. and then drop them in Sweden. Hey I told you it was fucking weird OK. Here is the Commercial Suicide CD along with 1 extra song that was a B-Side to the single for "Disappear" from the CD. If anyone happens to have that Washoe demo I would LOVE to get it. Enjoy.

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ENTOMBED - To Ride... Promo & Early Alt. Mixes

ENTOMBED - 10 Track Re-Issue Special

SANTA KARLA - Discography

ENTOMBED - To Ride... Promo & Early Alt. Mixes

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As part of their PledgeMusic Threeman Reissue Campaign, Entombed has recently unloaded a slew of alternate mixes of their 1997 album To Ride, Shoot Straight And Speak The Truth. From the band:

"Here’s the full first To Ride… album mix that Tomas Skogsberg did on his own…as I remember it Nicke thought the drums didn’t have the room and overhead mics loud enough…so the remix we later released ended up being a little more noisy and harder and sharper sounding around the high-end range of cymbals etc…listening to the finished album on the stereo back at the studio after the mastering we started out on 11 but the kept turning it down a little between songs as it was a little hard on the ears after a couple of tracks. The drum room was a really hard stone room with white painted brick walls. I remember the guys at Roadrunner Records really liked the album but thought they were listening to the rough mix…This alternative mix might be a little cleaner sounding…as I said it’s what was sent out to writers to review…don’t think no promos were made from the actual mix released…now you have both. You be the judge. Enjoy!"

Also made available are earlier mixes of 2 of those songs, Boats & Wreckage:

"Uffe came by the mastering studio and helped going through DAT tapes of multiple takes and mixes. Here are two mixes that very very few people have ever heard…including ourselves even… I had not heard them once at the studio in 1996. Mike Fraser was the second mixer to have a go at To Ride…"

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TO RIDE... PROMO ALT. MIX (1997)

1. To Ride, Shoot Straight And Speak The Truth

2. Like This With The Devil

3. Lights Out

4. Wound

5. They

6. Somewhat Peculiar

7. DCLXVI

8. Parasight

9. Damn Deal Done

10. Put Me Out

11. Just As Sad

12. Boats

13. Uffe's Horrorshow

14. Wreckage

TO RIDE... MIKE FRASER MIXES (1996)

Boats

Wreckage

ENTOMBED - Demos

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Entombed are the Godfathers of Death N' Roll. There really isn't much more to say. If you don't know who they are or don't really like them, you are probably at the wrong blog. They've been doing this crazy re-issue campaign where you can pledge money upfront to get re-issues of “DCLXVI – To Ride Shoot Straight and Speak the Truth”, “Same Difference” 
and “Uprising” in various formats. Their goal has already been reached but you can still put your order in. Throughout the pledge drive, they've been dishing out cool things like unseen videos & pictures, and today they released some killer demos. Just don't tell them that you got them here, I don't want them to come to my house and beat my ass.

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10 TRACK RE-ISSUE SPECIAL (DEMOS)

1. To Ride Shoot Straight And Speak The Truth - 1994

2. Kingdom - 1998

3. Seeing Red - 1999

4. Like This - 1994

5. Returning To Madness - 1998

6. Unknown/Untitled - 1994

7. Just As Sad - 1994

8. Karen Closed Strong - 1998

9. Put Me Out - 1994

10. Leave It Alone - 1998

BUY → http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/entombed-reissues