Shadows in the Deep

Century Media's Unleashed combos are all good deals for fans, including this one with Shadows in the Deep and Across the Open Sea. Both album covers are included in the booklet, as well as images for all the others they'd released up through Warrior. It also has notes from Johnny Hedlund for Shadows and Open Sea. As for the music, Shadows in the Deep is my favorite Unleashed album. Every song has great riffs and the production is very heavy. It's sort of like the atmosphere of Black Sabbath's Master of Reality transferred to death metal. Shadows, though, is not just straight-up death metal. The rock n' roll sensibilities Unleashed had shown on their first album are evident here on songs like The Immortals, Land of Ice, and the title track. Throw in the cover of Venom's Countess Bathory, and you've got a brutal, but also hard-rocking, death metal album.Across the Open Sea boasts more excellent examples of the Unleashed brand of rocking brutality, beginning with the mid-paced To Asgaard We Fly, the slow Open Wide, and then the speedy I Am God. This mix of tempos continues throughout the album and makes each song distinct. You never get the feeling that the songs all sound the same. This release has heavy, catchy riffs, high-speed solos, and a brash attitude unlike any other in Swedish death metal. I think it's one of their top three or four albums. The production is not quite as heavy as Shadows, but the quality of the songs makes up for it. I had both of these titles on cassette tape back in the day, both long gone, so this double-album release was a perfect replacement.

classic Unleashed

I never imagined that this item was made in South America is not what I expected, when describing an article should say where they are made​​, I'm really frustrated with my purchase

Record labels love to package great CDs with bad ones, as it lets them avoid selling the junk on its own. Unfortunately for us, record labels have an inverted view of reality, because the dumbed-down junk is what the largest number of people seem to like.On this CD, "Shadows in the Deep" is the winner for the death metal fan -- and "Across the Open Sea" is where Unleashed lost inspiration and began their decline into simpleton heavy metal with loud angry vocals. However, that later album does have better production and more consistency, so it's probably outselling the death metal classic "Shadows in the Deep."That album is an oddity in death metal: disguised as normal heavy metal song arrangements, these songs blossom from extremely basic riffs into complex conclusions with, like old Bathory, a Viking theme and a sense of the animistic spirituality of these ancient but intelligent people.Riffs are often notes not chords, played with extreme precision to capture both the rhythm of note change and the internal texture of the riff in their hummingbird-fast tremolo strumming. Vocals resemble the gruff exhalations of violent people subjugating adversaries. Personally, I think the drumming on this album is under-rated because it works well with simple material and easily expands to the more complex through deft and breathtaking tempo changes. It is not overplayed like many of the drummers at the time who were more trying to show chops than highlight the changing features of a song.For those who like death metal, Unleashed offer a unique and powerful style on their first two albums, and you can get one of them, "Shadows in the Deep," here. While most hardcore fans prefer their first, "Where No Life Dwells," I recommend "Shadows in the Deep" for its more streamlined, mature perspective on similar material.

You'd be surprised how often I find myself wondering where I put my copy of Unleashed's Shadows In the Deep. Is it at my parents' house in Virginia? Did my sister's ex-boyfriend borrow it? Did I lose it? I just can't remember and it's getting more and more frustrating. There's only so much enjoyment I can derive from listening to the 30-second free samples ...Back when I knew where it was, this CD never failed to get me hyper when I put it on at 4 in the morning. To paraphrase another reviewer, this is the party death metal album. I have no idea what Johnny Hedlund is barking about most of the time, but it sure puts you in the mood to bounce off the walls. Try the surging "Immortals" for instance. It kind of sounds like the extra bonus track you never heard from Motley Crue's Shout At the Devil album with Max Cavalera on vocals instead of Vince Neil. By the time, you get ten seconds into "Shadows in the Deep", I dare you to stay seated. This is first-class death metal, simple and straightforward. "Countesssss Bath-oreeeeaaaahh". Yeah, this good stuff. The music is great and accompanied by some of the better vocals in death metal (though the message can be offensive at times assuming you are able discern some of it).No, they weren't in the class of early Entombed or At the Gates in terms of technical proficiency, but I have to imagine Unleashed provided the soundtrack for partying Swedish death metalheads for much of the early to mid 90s. If you are a long-time student of Swedish death metal, you've already got it. However, if you're just beginning your research or arrived on the scene a little late (nothing wrong with that), you could do a lot worse than to start your collection with Shadows in the Deep. Now, if I could only find my copy...

Shadows in the Deep itself is not all that good.But if you can get the new one that has across the Open sea,I would.Across the open Sea is a much better album in my opinion,both song-structure and soundwise.Yet it seems to be overlooked.However,I'm a collector,so I must have Shadows in the Deep.If anything it does have a unique sound,especially for it's '92 release.I love Johnny Hedlunds vocals!So I give this double-album 3.5 stars,mostly for Across the Open Sea.

I have the original. ROCK ON! Though I never listened to any of their other albums, this ranks as one of the biggest ass-kicking albums I've ever had the pleasure of listening to. SO RISE, IMMORTALS, WITH POWER, FROM HELL, WE MARCH!!!

If you liked "where no life dwells" then you have to check out "shadows in the deep" Awesome Swedish Death Metal !

Masterpiece beautifully remastered

A+

Questo è un ottimo album degli Unleashed band Death Metal Svedese

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