That's the one I need next! I'm pretty noobish with metal, and death is finally clicking for me I think. It took me a little while to get past the vocals, but I had this weird duck-rabbit-y perspective shift when I was listening to Blessed today wherein I started hearing the vocals as hip hop almost, as a measured cadence all about rhythm and inflection and measured force. It's hard to describe. But it was really interesting to have it just sort of *ding* for me. I think I'm used to black metal, where the voice generally washes into the wash/rush of the rest of it even when it's harsh/syllable-spitty. Suffocation versus stabbing.
― Clarke B., Tuesday, 11 September 2012 22:37 (eleven years ago) link
I also just recently got Individual Thought Patterns by Death, however, which I loved immediately.
― Clarke B., Tuesday, 11 September 2012 22:42 (eleven years ago) link
I just picked up Altars of Madness... It completely rules. It's a freaking blast to walk around NYC and dive in and out of subways (part of my day-to-day job) with this stuff in my headphones. I do have the urge to do that David Vincent "OOOOOOOOOO" at random strangers, though.
― Clarke B., Thursday, 27 September 2012 23:01 (eleven years ago) link
An urge we all struggle with, similar to Tom G. Warrior Syndrome.
― Half Jaglom Half Winkler (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 28 September 2012 07:08 (eleven years ago) link
Just popped in to say
NAZAREEEEEEEEEEEEEEENE
― Clarke B., Friday, 12 October 2012 18:06 (eleven years ago) link
just got tix to the Morbid Angel tour where they're playing Covenant in its entirety.
My relationship with M.A. is weird. They're the exact type of death metal I love the most, and yet I've barely listened to them in ten years. The first M.A. I got was "Covenant" and it wasn't linear enough for my ears as it was only the third death metal album I'd bought. "Domination" I grew to like for its weird harmonies and moods. But "Altars" was the one I all-out fell in love with, the chaotic-thrashy death. Couldn't quit playing it. Ate up "Blessed" too, but it's been so long since I spun it I barely remember it.
I actually liked Formulas and Gateways just fine, Heretic bored the hell out of me, and didn't hear the new one other than the shitty 'industrial' singles. Got a CD copy of Covenant this weekend (as I'd only had it on cassette previously) and this is a really solid album! It's not as essential as the first two, but this is the first proper listen I've given it in over a decade and I'm going to enjoy hearing this material live.
― Neanderthal, Saturday, 19 October 2013 21:39 (ten years ago) link
Best thing I heard these guys do was a remix by Laibach. Can anyone remind me of what it was?
― Pingu Unchained (dog latin), Sunday, 20 October 2013 08:43 (ten years ago) link
Probably God of Emptiness, maybe Sworn to the Black?
― ΙΧΘΥΣ blindness (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 20 October 2013 09:53 (ten years ago) link
was anybody else's first exposure to these guys the Beavis and Butthead episode where they were imitating Vincent singing "BOOWWWWWW TO ME FAITHFULLYYYYYYYYYY"?
― Neanderthal, Sunday, 20 October 2013 14:04 (ten years ago) link
^^ yes
was feelin a little sunday night sad, put on covenant, cleared that right up
^ power of music right there
― j., Sunday, 19 January 2014 21:30 (ten years ago) link
Recently realized I saw Morbid Angel live once (2002-3) and forgot all about it. They were opening for Motörhead; Today Is The Day and (REO) Speedealer were also on the bill.
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Sunday, 19 January 2014 22:05 (ten years ago) link
jus like a snake god, slither-in
― j., Thursday, 4 June 2015 17:26 (eight years ago) link
Surprised but pleased that Blessed bested Altars. Seems like every other online metal community ranks A well over B and while I love both of those albums I think the second really took Morbid Angel beyond the realm of "amazing metal" into something more grand and imposing. I admit though that some of those instrumentals make me feel less like a flesh and blood necromancer plumbing the depths of tombs and more like a twinkling SNES sprite hopping through a side-scrolling 16-bit cemetery.
I'm going to take this opportunity to once again suggest that fans of MA, early era specifically, hike on over to Domains' bandcamp and grab (for free!) the best death metal album put out in ages, Sinister Ceremonies. The songwriting, the atmosphere, the musicianship, all of it sounds like it came bubbling up through that portal on the Altars cover art. (And its own cover art is likewise amazing.) It sort of combines that classically composed Blessed stuff with the blackened occult aggression of the Altars stuff. Top shelf.
https://domainsofdeath.bandcamp.com/
― Devilock, Thursday, 4 June 2015 21:41 (eight years ago) link
I liked that instrumental a lot. Wish there was more stuff like that (not necessarily on that album).
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 4 June 2015 22:36 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZJVcPlx39s
― am0n, Tuesday, 10 May 2016 16:48 (eight years ago) link
Buncha nerds on rolling metal copping to not getting these guys wtf nerds go back to listening to Nightwish
― You say tomato, Isao Tomita (RIP) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 11 May 2016 07:29 (eight years ago) link
I'm a Tarja-era Nightwish apologist and yet I have to say you are OTM
― The bald Phil Collins impersonator cash grab (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Wednesday, 11 May 2016 10:31 (eight years ago) link
I think Covenant is now my fav
― Neanderthal, Monday, 5 December 2016 00:02 (seven years ago) link
"Immortal Rites" actually summons Sumerian demons, make sure not to go to the bathroom right after listening cos they come up thru sewer
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Friday, 21 December 2018 21:56 (five years ago) link
that was the first MA album I had heard (heard "Chapel of Ghouls" on Grindcrusher tho) and it made the hair on the back of my neck stand up.
― blood, loud screaming and nudity (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 22 December 2018 04:49 (five years ago) link
Domination is actually a pretty good album that gets shat on for "Where the Slime Live" and Vincent's terrible "WWF wrestler" vocals
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Sunday, 6 January 2019 22:48 (five years ago) link
I can completely understand why people make fun of Vincent on this album though.
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Sunday, 6 January 2019 22:55 (five years ago) link
Domination is the album I keep thinking I should go back to but then I'm like "eh why not just listen to Altars or Blessed again"
― blood, loud screaming and nudity (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 6 January 2019 23:27 (five years ago) link
that's what took me so long to go back to it lol
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Sunday, 6 January 2019 23:28 (five years ago) link
it's gateways
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Wednesday, 28 July 2021 05:27 (two years ago) link
1000 percent
gateways robbed
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, September 11, 2012 1:06 PM (eight years ago) bookmarkflaglink
who is here speaking truth eight years ago
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Wednesday, 28 July 2021 05:28 (two years ago) link
Blessed will always be my fav. I lived in that album when i was 13/14
― black dice live ft. jerry garcia (rizzx), Wednesday, 28 July 2021 08:02 (two years ago) link
domination btw has always whipped ass
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Saturday, 2 October 2021 20:19 (two years ago) link
"eyes to see," "nothing but fear," "hatework".... nothing but hits
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Saturday, 2 October 2021 20:20 (two years ago) link
controversial morbid angel album ranking tk
i need to go back in time to inform my younger self that she should be playing quake on mute while listening to domination all hours of the day
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Saturday, 2 October 2021 20:24 (two years ago) link
I don’t think I’ve heard a bad Morbid Angel album
― brimstead, Saturday, 2 October 2021 22:42 (two years ago) link
they don't tell you that formulas is nearly as good as gateways, but it is
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Sunday, 3 October 2021 00:36 (two years ago) link
Formulas is dope
I don't like Heretic.
Iliud is hilarious
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Sunday, 3 October 2021 00:41 (two years ago) link
hateworrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrk
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Sunday, 3 October 2021 14:26 (two years ago) link
every guitar solo on formulas sounds like it's emanating from another dimension
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Sunday, 3 October 2021 14:52 (two years ago) link
"summoning redemption" is just better than any song ever made
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Sunday, 3 October 2021 18:55 (two years ago) link
of course i realize, every time i listen to it, that i could say the same thing about any song on gateways
partic "at one with nothing"
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Sunday, 3 October 2021 19:15 (two years ago) link
idk i think heretic might rule too
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Sunday, 3 October 2021 22:14 (two years ago) link
it is way more like formulas than it is like gateways though
yeah, Heretic whips ass, but in a low-key platonic ideal 7/10 kind of way.
Hard agree about the solos on Formulas, too, as I've honestly probably listened to the nothing but Trey bonus disc Love of Lava as much as any proper Morbid Angel album over the past few years.
― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Sunday, 3 October 2021 22:43 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9-D3iacXK0
this song is incredible. never really given heretic more than a cursory listen bc of its reputation and as usual that was a mistake
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Sunday, 3 October 2021 22:43 (two years ago) link
all right it's time to listen to illud for the first time since 2011
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Monday, 4 October 2021 02:20 (two years ago) link
EXTREME!!!!!
the straight up death metal tracks on illud are very good, and the lol tracks contain numerous lols. profoundly dumb album. sorta glad it exists
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Monday, 4 October 2021 02:50 (two years ago) link
relistening to kingdoms disdained makes me suspect i wasn't in the mood for it or even ready for it when it came out
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Monday, 4 October 2021 12:42 (two years ago) link
filling in the gaps alphabetically, juvenilia is a not particularly well-recorded live show circa-altars and it's... awesome
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Tuesday, 5 October 2021 14:54 (two years ago) link
gatewaysdominationformulas blessedhereticaltarskingdomsillud
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Tuesday, 5 October 2021 18:27 (two years ago) link
breaks my heart to rank kingdoms so low bc i really can't get enough of that record at the moment, as much as it's a course correction it also resembles no morbid angel record before it, and it is fuckin brutal
but i think i exhausted my allowed quota of trolling opinions by ranking domination and heretic over altars
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Tuesday, 5 October 2021 19:05 (two years ago) link
ahh shit i forgot covenant. telling. even though i love that record
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Tuesday, 5 October 2021 19:17 (two years ago) link
listening to Formulas
I forgot how amazing a song "Heaving Earth" is. how can anybody hate on this shit.
― they were written with a ouija board and a rhyming dictionary (Neanderthal), Thursday, 30 December 2021 04:13 (two years ago) link
formulas is so dope
would be their best if morbid angel didn’t have five other best albums
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 30 December 2021 04:46 (two years ago) link
i would rank kingdoms disdained higher now. kingdoms disdained rocks ass
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 30 December 2021 04:47 (two years ago) link
i got the "trey azaghoth mix" of that album recently (I guess he did his own mix and is selling it on their bandcamp) and it's actually a bit better! I always liked KD but the production drove me nuts as I had to listen to it on headphones to make it out.
― they were written with a ouija board and a rhyming dictionary (Neanderthal), Thursday, 30 December 2021 04:49 (two years ago) link
whaAAAaaat i gotta hear this
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 30 December 2021 04:57 (two years ago) link
https://officialmorbidangel.bandcamp.com/album/kingdoms-disdained-raw-mastered-version-mastered-by-trey-azagthoth
― they were written with a ouija board and a rhyming dictionary (Neanderthal), Thursday, 30 December 2021 05:01 (two years ago) link
the creature on the front of Kingdoms Disdained looks like that one big brown furry thing from Fraggle Rock
― they were written with a ouija board and a rhyming dictionary (Neanderthal), Saturday, 1 January 2022 02:03 (two years ago) link
i also don't think Tucker is that bad, his growl is a bit forced , but it does have body to it, it's just a bit more generic than Vincent's raspy yell.
― they were written with a ouija board and a rhyming dictionary (Neanderthal), Saturday, 1 January 2022 02:11 (two years ago) link
Domination I feel like is largely hated for Vincent's terrible vocals, which are now much more over the top and more alt metally.
and yeah, the arrangements are simpler, and they've dumbed down the riffs somewhat at times, but there's a lot of great music on this. still a solid effort.
not every song lands, no, but "Hatework" rules, cheesy keyboards and all.
― they were written with a ouija board and a rhyming dictionary (Neanderthal), Monday, 3 January 2022 01:12 (two years ago) link
― they were written with a ouija board and a rhyming dictionary (Neanderthal), Wednesday, December 29, 2021 10:01 PM (three months ago) bookmarkflaglink
finally snagged myself a copy of this and wow the sound is improved by a billion
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 25 April 2022 20:21 (two years ago) link
i can finally hear pretty much everything the guitar is doing!
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 25 April 2022 20:22 (two years ago) link
lol right? it was a strict headphone listen to me for ages because in my car it sounded like nothing but a big loud nonsense, but with this mix I can actually enjoy it in the car now.
― Deez NFTs (Neanderthal), Monday, 25 April 2022 20:24 (two years ago) link
I just wanna big-up Brad itt as the primary Gateways backer on ILX, that is def one album that needs more love.
they hinted at this sound on earlier albums, I mean "World of Shit" from Covenant pretty much is the exact same style, they just decided to do a whole album like this.
also Trey's leads are phenomenal, almost all harmonized alien-sounding shits.
on the new tour they're apparently playing 3 from it, including my two favorites ("Summoning Redemption", "Ageless, Still I Am").
― Will.I.Am's fetid urine (Neanderthal), Thursday, 13 April 2023 02:58 (one year ago) link
playing Heretic for like the first time since maybe 2004, and not sure why I disliked this one so much then. iirc my view was 'it's too much of a generic death metal album', but so far, other than the sterile production, it very much feels like Morbid Angel.
should also note I was not listening to much metal that year so it could have been that i wasn't feeling any DM
― Will.I.Am's fetid urine (Neanderthal), Thursday, 13 April 2023 17:12 (one year ago) link
granted, I do feel the two Tucker before this are better, buuuut...who cares
I always though Heretic was pretty good and it was more a case of band fatigue, where people were just kind of worn out on their style generally.
― made entirely of styrofoam (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 1 May 2023 10:56 (one year ago) link