DCLXVI: To Ride Shoot Straight and Speak the Truth DCLXVI: To Ride Shoot Straight and Speak the Truth DCLXVI: To Ride, Shoot Straight and Speak the Truth is the fourth album by the Swedish metal band Entombed, released in 1997. DCLXVI is 666 in Roman numerals. The cover art features a statuette of the Aztec god Mictlantecuhtli. This album shows a continuation of the death 'n' roll sound previously established on 1993's "Wolverine Blues", but eschews most traces of hardcore and traditional death metal in favor of a stoner rock and garage rock influenced sound. The album was "Metal Hammer" magazine's #2 album of 1997. It was beaten by
Roman numerals feature of Roman numerals is called subtractive notation. The numbers from 1 to 10 (including subtractive notation for 4 and 9) are expressed in Roman numerals as follows: The system being basically decimal, "tens and hundreds follow the same underlying pattern". This is the key to understanding Roman numerals: Thus 10 to 100 (counting in tens, with taking the place of , taking the place of and taking the place of ): Note that 40 () and 90 () follow the same subtractive pattern as 4 and 9, avoiding the confusing and . Similarly, 100 to 1000 (counting in hundreds):