DCLXVI: To Ride Shoot Straight and Speak the Truth is the fourth album by the Swedish metal band Entombed

Entombed (band)

Entombed is a Swedish death metal band which formed in 1987 under the name of Nihilist. Though Entombed began their career as an early pioneer of Scandinavian death metal which initially differed itself from its American counterpart with its distinct guitar tone, by the early 1990s their sound had...

, released in 1997. DCLXVI is 666

Number of the Beast

The Number of the Beast is a term in the Book of Revelation, of the New Testament, that is associated with the first Beast of Revelation chapter 13, the Beast of the sea. In most manuscripts of the New Testament and in English translations of the Bible, the number of the Beast is...

 in Roman numerals

Roman numerals

The numeral system of ancient Rome, or Roman numerals, uses combinations of letters from the Latin alphabet to signify values. The numbers 1 to 10 can be expressed in Roman numerals as:...

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The album was Metal Hammer

Metal Hammer

Metal Hammer is a monthly heavy metal music magazine published in the United Kingdom by Future Publishing, and in several other countries by different publishers. Metal Hammer articles feature both mainstream bands and more unusual acts from the whole spectrum of heavy metal music...

magazine's #2 album of 1997. It was beaten by UK (non-metal) band Feeder

Feeder

-Technology:* Feeder , any of several devices used in apiculture to supplement or replace natural food sources* Feeder , another name for a riser, a reservoir built into a metal casting mold to prevent cavities due to shrinkage...

's debut album Polythene

Polythene (album)

Polythene was the first full-length album by the Welsh rock band Feeder and was released 18 May 1997 on the Echo Label, and then re-issued on 28 October in the same year in an Enhanced CD version, featuring their UK top 40 breakthrough single "High" and its video...

, but it was ranked above many commercially famous albums from that year, most significantly (non-metal band) The Verve

The Verve

The Verve were an English rock band formed in 1989 in Wigan by lead vocalist Richard Ashcroft, guitarist Nick McCabe, bassist Simon Jones, and drummer Peter Salisbury. Guitarist and keyboardist Simon Tong later became a member. Beginning with a psychedelic sound indebted to shoegazing and space...

's Urban Hymns

Urban Hymns

Urban Hymns is the third album by English rock band The Verve, released on 29 September 1997 on Hut Recordings. It earned nearly unanimous critical praise upon its release, and went on to become the band's best-selling release and one of the biggest selling albums of the year...

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Track listing

A limited digipak

Digipak

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 edition came with a bonus CD titled Family Favourites featuring four cover songs:

Trivia

The song "To Ride, Shoot Straight and Speak the Truth" was featured in the first Tony Hawks Underground videogame.

Personnel

Entombed

• Lars Göran Petrov
  Lars Göran Petrov
  Lars Göran Petrov, better known simply as LG Petrov, is a Swedish singer of Macedonian background , born 17 February 1972. He is best known for his work with the band Entombed. In 1991 he was forced to quit Entombed, due to personal problems. He then did the vocals for Comecon's debut album...
  
   - vocals
• Jörgen Sandström
  Jörgen Sandström
  Jörgen Sandström of Stockholm Sweden, provided vocals, bass and guitar for Grave on their first three albums and played with Entombed 1995-2004. He is currently involved with bands such as Krux , Vicious Art , The Project Hate MCMXCIX and Torture Division...
  
   - bass
• Nicke Andersson
  Nicke Andersson
  Nicke Andersson , born 1 August 1972 is a singer, guitarist, drummer, songwriter and composer most known for his work as the singer and guitarist of the successful Grammy award winning rock band The Hellacopters as well as the former drummer for Swedish death metal band Entombed...
  
  - drums, artwork
• Monster Cederlund - guitar
• Alex Hellid - guitar, artwork
• Anders Lindström - Air Guitar

Production

• Entombed - produced
• Tomas Skogsberg - produced, engineered, mixed, recorded
• Enginestudio - artwork, design
• Guerilla Art - artwork
• Neil Rapi - photography
• Steve Gurney - live sound
• Fred Estby - assist

External links

• Amazon.com entry