Wolverine Blues

Wolverine Blues
Studio album by Entombed
Released	October 4, 1993
Genre	Death 'n' roll, groove metal
Length	35:10
Label	Earache/Columbia
Producer	Tomas Skogsberg
Entombed chronology
Clandestine (1991) Wolverine Blues (1993) DCLXVI: To Ride Shoot Straight and Speak the Truth (1997)
Alternative cover featuring Wolverine

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Rock Hard (de)	(8.5/10)[2]

Wolverine Blues is the third studio album by Swedish heavy metal band Entombed, released on October 4, 1993 by Earache Records. The album marked a move away from their death metal roots to a more traditional hard rock and heavy metal style they produced from this album onward called death 'n' roll. The band also adopted a mid-tempo groove metal style for this release, similar to that of American heavy metal band Pantera.^[3]

Marvel

One version of Wolverine Blues was released with Marvel Comics' character Wolverine on the cover, despite Entombed never wanting their album to be associated with the superhero. Earache Records, without the band's permission, had made a deal with Marvel in order to use Wolverine to promote the album to a more mainstream audience. This edition included a Wolverine mini-comic inside the CD booklet. The Marvel edition was also heavily edited, with the track "Out of Hand" being removed entirely. A limited number of early pressings of the album contained audio samples taken from films (most notably Flatliners and Hellraiser III) which were subsequently removed from later pressing due to record label fears of potential legal action over their unlicensed use.^[4]

Reception

In 2005, Wolverine Blues was ranked number 494 in Rock Hard magazine's book of The 500 Greatest Rock & Metal Albums of All Time.^[5] The guitar magazine Guitar World labeled Wolverine Blues as "1994’s best death metal effort and quite possibly the finest death metal album of this decade."

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Eyemaster" (Andersson, Hellid)	3:21
2.	"Rotten Soil" (Andersson, Cederlund)	3:27
3.	"Wolverine Blues" (Andersson, Cederlund, Hellid)	2:16
4.	"Demon" (Cederlund, Hellid)	3:22
5.	"Contempt" (Hellid)	4:34
6.	"Full of Hell" (Hellid)	3:24
7.	"Blood Song" (Cederlund, Rosenberg, Andersson, Hellid)	3:25
8.	"Hollowman" (Andersson)	4:29
9.	"Heavens Die" (Andersson, Hakansson)	4:17
10.	"Out of Hand" (Rosenberg, Hellid, Cederlund, Andersson)	3:07
11.	"State of Emergency" (Originally written by Stiff Little Fingers, 1979) (Remastered with Bonus Track)	2:35
Total length:		35:10

Credits

• Lars-Göran Petrov - Vocals
• Uffe Cederlund - Guitar, Tambourine
• Lars Rosenberg - Bass
• Alex Hellid - Guitar
• Nicke Andersson - Drums, Design, Artwork
• Tomas Skogsberg - Producer, Engineer
• Z. Benny Rehn - Photography

References

1. Birchmeier, Jason. "Wolverine Blues - Entombed". Allmusic. Retrieved 28 April 2008.
2. Albrecht, Frank. "Rock Hard". issue 77. Retrieved 21 May 2013.
3. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/entombed-mn0000741177/biography
4. "ASK EARACHE: Film Samples on Entombed's Wolverine Blues". askearache.blogspot.co.at. Retrieved 2016-02-06.
5. [...], Rock Hard (Hrsg.). [Red.: Michael Rensen. Mitarb.: Götz Kühnemund] (2005). Best of Rock & Metal die 500 stärksten Scheiben aller Zeiten. Königswinter: Heel. p. 10. ISBN 3-89880-517-4.