Edited from Marcin's 2018 review...
"Anyone wonders what one of the most expensive death metal albums is like? For some reason Sororicide's 'The Entity' has become one of most expensive CDs/LPs and the prices it reached on eBay or Discogs went far beyond common sense. Some people went crazy and decided to pay big money for it, but I cannot understand why. The music on this album is nothing special and definitely it's not worth a thousand fucking bucks! Just the fact that it's rare doesn't mean it's worth that much money! I don't care what people do with their dollars, if someone wanted to show off and spend his month's wages on this album, then it's his stupidity, not mine.
But seriously, speaking of the demanded value of the original press against its music quality, I think this is an incredibly overrated album. For me it hardly deserves the praise it often receives, what confirms my theory is that words like 'classic' and 'cult' have no meaning nowadays, because they're used to describe even such mediocre and even weak records as this. For some people it's enough if the album was released in the early 90's to call it 'cult'. What bullshit. I don't want to say that 'The Entity' is a pile of useless garbage, because it's not, but it's not an album which will give you a big erection and powerful kick in the head. Sororicide sounds weak here and more like a miserable school metal band which hardly learned to play the instruments. But they try to play their death metal and you can even hear that they have some good ideas, some nice riffs, but it doesn't save the overall quality of the album.
When listening to 'The Entity" I can't help but notice rather sloppy playing from these young dudes and primitiveness of this album. Their guitar solos beg for being erased immediately. And too often it all just sounds messy and poor, especially that some riffs were meant to sound more twisted and the music is filled with tempo variations or very diverse parts. Definitely the best part of 'The Entity' is when the music is slower and surprisingly I can admit that Sororicide did come up with some pretty damn good melodic riffs. Songs like 'Frightmares' and 'Old' are the most interesting and I can say that I like them. You would not exaggerate, if you compare them to the classic Swedish death metal scene and bands like Crypt Of Kerberos and such. 'Frightmares' is surely also very influenced by early Paradise Lost, I do like how they create darker and more sorrowful atmosphere there. 'Redrum' is another very good song, but when played in faster tempos the music becomes less and less interesting and it turns out that there's a whole bunch of mediocre songs that bore me to death. Sometimes it just becomes irritating, especially with the weak, monotonous vocals. The production of 'The Entity' is also very thin and only underlines that whole primitive and uninspiring character of this record. So, as I mentioned, at best I can pick up few good songs, some great fragments...but as a whole, this album is hardly ever impressive."
