Like an Ever Flowing Stream

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.

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).{{Cn|date=January 2025}}

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).{{Cn|date=January 2025}}

The album makes use of heavily distorted and downtuned guitar and bass riffing. The drumming is influenced by punk rock, and has been said to "[owe] more to Discharge than Slayer." The album's vocals have been described as "barks, gurgles, and roars," and have been said to sound like a "pissed-off Rottweiler with a mouthful of fresh blood."{{Citation |title=Like an Everflowing Stream - Dismember {{!}} Album {{!}} AllMusic |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/like-an-everflowing-stream-mw0000179541 |access-date=2025-01-06 |language=en}} The album's production has been described as sounding "as if it's going to fall apart."{{Cite web |last=Dick |first=Chris |date=2021-05-28 |title=Q&A: Dismember Celebrate 30th Anniversary of 'Like an Ever Flowing Stream' |url=https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2021/05/28/qa-dismember-celebrate-30th-anniversary-of-like-an-ever-flowing-stream/ |access-date=2025-01-06 |website=Decibel Magazine |language=en-US}}

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The album is considered to be a classic in the death metal genre.{{Cite web |last=Pratt |first=Greg |date=2021-01-14 |title=Fight Fire with Fire: ‘Left Hand Path’ vs. ‘Like an Everflowing Stream’ |url=https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2021/01/14/fight-fire-with-fire-left-hand-path-vs-like-an-everflowing-stream/ |access-date=2024-12-30 |website=Decibel Magazine |language=en-US}}

The album's influence has been observed in the work of Bloodbath and Death Breath.{{Citation |title=Like an Everflowing Stream - Dismember {{!}} Album {{!}} AllMusic |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/like-an-everflowing-stream-mw0000179541 |access-date=2025-01-06 |language=en}}

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." 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."{{cite web|url=https://metal-digest.com/2022/05/28/dismember-like-an-ever-flowing-stream/|title=Dismember – 'Like an Ever Flowing Stream' – Metal Digest – The Normless Magazine|publisher=metal-digest.com|access-date=May 29, 2022}}

In 2010, the album was inducted into Decibel magazine's Hall of Fame.{{cite web|title=Dismember – "Like and Ever Flowing Stream"|url=http://decibelmagazine.com/hall-of-fame/2015/3/13/dismember-like-an-ever-flowing-stream|publisher=Decibel Magazine|accessdate=15 January 2017}}

{{track listing

| all_writing = Dismember; arrangements by Dismember

| total_length = 31:06

| title1 = Override of the Overture

| length1 = 5:15

| title2 = Soon to Be Dead

| length2 = 1:55

| title3 = Bleed for Me

| length3 = 3:20

| title4 = And So Is Life

| length4 = 3:11

| title5 = Dismembered

| length5 = 5:54

| title6 = Skin Her Alive

| length6 = 2:15

| title7 = Sickening Art

| length7 = 3:55

| title8 = In Death's Sleep

| length8 = 5:21

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{{Track listing

|total_length = 39:54

|headline = 1996 Reissue

|title9 = Deathevocation

|length9 = 4:45

|title10 = Defective Decay

|length10 = 4:03

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{{Track listing

|total_length = 47:45

|headline = 2005 Reissue

|title9 = Deathevocation

|length9 = 4:45

|title10 = Defective Decay

|length10 = 4:03

|title11 = Torn Apart

|length11 = 4:43

|title12 = Justifiable Homicide

|length12 = 3:17

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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

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