Like an Ever Flowing Stream

Like an Ever Flowing Stream is the debut album by Swedish death metal band Dismember, released in May 1991.

Like an Ever Flowing Stream
Studio album by Dismember
Released	28 May 1991
Recorded	March 1991
Studio	Sunlight Studios, Sweden
Genre	Death metal
Length	31:06
Label	Nuclear Blast
Producer	Tomas Skogsberg and Fred Estby
Dismember chronology
Like an Ever Flowing Stream (1991) Indecent & Obscene (1993)

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" (New International Version). 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 Nuclear Blast (except for two additional bonus tracks).

Nicke Andersson, at the time the drummer in Entombed played all the lead guitars except for the guitar solo on "Override of the Overture", which is played by David Blomqvist.

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]

Modern reviews for Like an Ever Flowing Stream have been positive. AllMusic'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."^[1] Adam McCann of Metal Digest noted that, "Alongside Entombed, Grave 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."^[2]

In 2010, the album was inducted into Decibel magazine's Hall of Fame.^[3]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Dismember; arrangements by Dismember

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Override of the Overture"	5:15
2.	"Soon to Be Dead"	1:55
3.	"Bleed for Me"	3:20
4.	"And So Is Life"	3:11
5.	"Dismembered"	5:54
6.	"Skin Her Alive"	2:15
7.	"Sickening Art"	3:55
8.	"In Death's Sleep"	5:21
Total length:		31:06

1996 Reissue

No.	Title	Length
9.	"Deathevocation"	4:45
10.	"Defective Decay"	4:03
Total length:		39:54

2005 Reissue

No.	Title	Length
9.	"Deathevocation"	4:45
10.	"Defective Decay"	4:03
11.	"Torn Apart"	4:43
12.	"Justifiable Homicide"	3:17
Total length:		47:45

Personnel

Dismember

• Matti Kärki – Vocals
• Robert Senneback – Guitar
• David Blomqvist – Guitar, Lead Guitar on Track 1
• Richard Diamon – Bass
• Fred Estby – Drums

Additional musician

• Nicke Andersson – 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 – Design, Cover Design
• Gottfrid Jarnefors – Photography

Charts

2023 chart performance for Like an Ever Flowing Stream

Chart (2023)	Peak position
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)^[4]	50
Polish Albums (ZPAV)^[5]	76

References

1. Freeman, Phil. "Like an Ever Flowing Stream – Dismember". AllMusic. Retrieved 1 August 2011.
2. "Dismember – 'Like an Ever Flowing Stream' – Metal Digest – The Normless Magazine". metal-digest.com. Retrieved May 29, 2022.
3. "Dismember – "Like and Ever Flowing Stream"". Decibel Magazine. Retrieved 15 January 2017.
4. "Offiziellecharts.de – Dismember – Like an Ever Flowing Stream" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved 1 September 2023.
5. "OLiS - oficjalna lista sprzedaży - albumy" (in Polish). OLiS. Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry. Note: Change the date to 25.08.2023–31.08.2023 under "zmień zakres od–do:". Retrieved 7 September 2023.