''Like an Ever Flowing Stream'' is the debut album by Swedish

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band Dismember, released in May 1991.

Overview

The title may refer to the Biblical Book of Amos 5:24, "Let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream" (

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). A music video was made for the track "Soon to Be Dead". Since Karmageddon Records owns the rights to the album, it was not re-issued as a digipack disc in 2005 like every other album (except for '' Where Ironcrosses Grow''). Regain re-issued those digipack versions and also remastered the albums while Karmageddon released an exact copy of the 1996 issue by

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(except for two additional bonus tracks).

Nicke Andersson Nicke Andersson (born 1 August 1972), also known as Nick Royale, is a Swedish musician best known for his work as the singer and guitarist for the rock band The Hellacopters and drummer for the death metal band Entombed. He was also briefly th ...

, at the time the drummer in Entombed played all the

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s except for the

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on "Override of the Overture", which is played by David Blomqvist.

Reception

Modern reviews for ''Like an Ever Flowing Stream'' have been positive.

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's Phil Freeman gave the album a rating of five stars and called it "one of the crucial documents of the early-'90s Swedish death metal scene." Adam McCann of Metal Digest noted that, "Alongside Entombed,

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and Unleashed, this debut album didn't just help place Swedish death metal on the map, it took the flag and slammed it through a lifeless corpse, unveiling the blue and yellow. For many fans of Dismember, ''Like an Ever Flowing Stream'' is often regarded as not just their favourite Dismember album, but also one of the best death metal albums of all time." In 2010, the album was inducted into '' Decibel'' magazine's Hall of Fame.

Track listing

Personnel

Dismember * Matti Kärki – Vocals *Robert Senneback – Guitar *David Blomqvist – Guitar, Lead Guitar on Track 1 *Richard Diamon – Bass *

Fred Estby Fred Estby (born 14 March 1972) is a Swedish drummer. He is best known as the drummer and main songwriter of the Swedish death metal band Dismember. Before he played drums in the band Carnage. Estby appeared in various other projects includin ...

– Drums Additional musician *

– Lead Guitar on All Tracks Except Track 1 and Dismember logo design Production *Produced & Mixed by Tomas Skogsberg & Fred Estby *Recorded & Engineered by Tomas Skogsberg *

Dan Seagrave Daniel Seagrave (born 1970) is a British artist, who created many record covers for death metal bands especially in the early 1990s. He lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He grew up in Ravenshead, near Nottingham. Seagrave's works are typically ...

– Design, Cover Design *Gottfrid Jarnefors – Photography

References

{{Authority control Dismember (band) albums 1991 debut albums Albums with cover art by Dan Seagrave Nuclear Blast albums