Swedish metal masters Entombed reunited last weekend at The Close-Up Båten Cruise and perfromed together for the first time. You can watch fan-filmed videos of their entire set below:
Years in the making, this lineup of Entombed includes Alex Hellid (guitar), Uffe Cederlund (guitar) and Nicke Andersson (drums), with Robert Anderson on vocals, and Nicke’s half brother Edvin Aftonfalk (bass), both formerly of the Swedish death metal band Morbus Chron. Orvar Säfström, who sang on Entombed’s Crawl EP performed two songs with the band. This performance and the bands’ upcoming shows are the first Entombed activity for Anderson who quit the band
Entombed will next play its groundbreaking 1991 album, Clandestine (Earache) in its entirety at Malmö Live in Malmö, Sweden on November 12. Sitting in first with conductor Josef Rhedin and the 100-plus member Malmö Symphony Orchestra for Thomas Von Wachenfeldt’s arrangement of Clandestine, the band will perform Clandestine from front to back for the very first time. Hellid said: “‘Clandestine’ is a complex beast. Revisiting it 25 years later is definitely something special.”
“We’re not going to do big world tours. Right now we have these two shows booked and we’re taking it from there. We have been re-recording old stuff to see how we sound today — and we like it. Time is flying faster as I get older and I would love to be part of a new Emtombed album. I’m open for it.”
Andersson noted: “We realized it’s been 25 years since ‘Clandestine’ first came out and we never properly performed it live. It’s about damn time! I wanted to be part of the earlier orchestra shows but schedules clashed. This time the stars aligned such that we can do both the eerie cinematic Christopher Young-style (‘Hellraiser’) set, where we sit in with the orchestra, and then the full-on original performance as a band. It’s an awesome way to celebrate.”
Hellid summarized:
“Just getting into a room with Nicke and Uffe is exciting. Getting back on stage will be amazing. We find profound joy in looking for, creating, and shaping Entombed. It is an immense rush making all the bumps along the way well worth it.
Entombed’s Close-Up Båten Cruise set list
Living Dead
Sinners Bleed
Evilyn
Blessed Be
Stranger Aeons
Chaos Breed
Crawl (vocals by Orvar Säfstrom)
Abnormally Deceased (vocals by Orvar Säfstrom)
Severe Burns
Through the Collonades
Revel in Flesh
Left Hand Path
Entombed is not meant to be confused with Entombed A.D., led by former Entombed vocalist LG Petrov. Hellid and Petrov have been adt odds and in court over the legal name of the band. The Swedish Patent And Registration Office rejected a claim against Hellid from Petrov his claims in March 2016 ruling.
Entombed’s current lineup:
Robert Andersson – vocals
Alex Hellid – guitar
Uffe Cederlund – guitar
Edvin Aftonfalk – bass
Nicke Andersson – drums