Morbid Angel - C or D?

what about "abominations of desolation"? heh.

morrisound, i bet. fuckers.

Ah, the good old "drown the guitars in reverb and make people wonder if there's actually a bass player in the band" Scott Burns sound. But in those days, you weren't too spoiled for choices in producers - only Burns, Richardson and Skogsberg were able to get a decent production out of this kind of music.

what about "abominations of desolation"?

Not really legendary stuff IMO, but a nice take on the Death/Possessed/Slayer sound of those days. The songs themselves are great of course, but the production is rather weak and Mike Browning just wasn't very good on vocals. Nice to hear a more restained Trey though.

This interview is amazing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYp0JlDuKDU&feature=related

I doubt the interviewer ever listened to their music. And does this mean the Goo Goo Dolls were huge in France?

I interviewed Morbid Angel for Creem Magazine back when they did their major label stab "Covenant." It was in a hotel room in Manhattan with David and Trey. During small talk before the tape was rolling, Trey asked me what I thought of the new release. I said something about how it was good but I needed to listen a few more times to expand upon that (in retrospect, it is quite good but I play the debut the most).

During the interview, David did all the talking. Trey didn't say anything, playing some video game on a Nintendo, and even rebuffed me when I pointedly tried to get him to respond to something.

The tape stops, and suddenly he and my photographer start talking about video games and he is once again talking up a storm.

He turns to me and says, unsolicited by me, "Sorry for not talking during the interview but you didn't think the album was the best piece of music you ever heard and I just cannot relate to anyone who doesn't think the same."

Neat Morbid Angel fact: All of their studio albums are in alphabetical order.

I've tried several times to get into Morbid Angel, but they do almost nothing for me. Same with Hate Eternal and Nile.

The first review of the new album by Terrorizer does not bode well. It's bound to be a disappointment.

I'm pretty apathetic towards this band as well.

Actually re-listened to Covenant after that post, and while I don't hate them, and don't really feel the need to listen to them on anything approaching a regular basis, I can hear enough there that I may revisit their work (the first three or four albums anyway) with greater frequency in the lead-up to the new one. Might even write about 'em for MSN.

just dropping in to say that domination is mad underrated for no coherent reason.

#oh yes they totally made a sell out record by making a completely brutal record, yes, way to go morbid angel fans

dying that Trey's real name is "George Michel Emmanuel III"

feel like an idiot for not initially getting the "Trey"/"III" connection

Slim Kid Trey

Wasn't there a Sterling Von Scarborough in the band at one point? Great rich kid names there.

MAZE OF TORMENT
MAZE OF TORMEEEEEENNNNT
MAZE OF TORMENT

otm

my best friend is more of a black metal head and she msged me earlier this week "idk why i don't listen to morbid angel" and told me she had just heard Immortal Rites and it was dope and I was so proud

xxp MAZE OF DEATH

also that's very cool. i swear there's early Morbid Angel in the DNA of 90s black metal.

definitely. I kind of figured the moment she said she heard a cool MA song it must have been from Altars, which has the most BM-y moments.

yeah that'd be the good gateway for sure, the later stuff is (i say this with fondness) ridiculously death metal

does anybody get a weird itch to listen to these guys in December like I do? I mean I always have a faint itch to listen to them but every December it becomes unscratchable

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oidCSBMsaR0

so, I've been peppered with both adverts for Morbid Angel AND the competing act I Am Morbid that David Vincent formed. But now I see Pete Sandoval is in the band.

what the actual fuck? at one point, he'd said due to his new religious beliefs, he wouldn't have seen himself touring with the band anymore, even if he hadn't had back surgery and been replaced, then he later walked it back and suggested the religious beliefs had nothing to do with it, but seemed to indicate it was friction/animosity between him and the band.

just seems wild to me as Vincent was in the band when Pete was dismissed and was the person who actually said Sandoval's beliefs were the reason he wouldn't be continuing in the band. So Pete disbands Terrorizer, and decides to rejoin a Morbid Angel, and picks THAT one?

guessing he and Trey don't get along.

I have a good friend who has seen both and he says I Am Morbid's guitar player doesn't really do justice to Trey's playing, like his solos sound very different in execution, and that's the main reason I don't want to see them. they focus mostly on the first four albums, but I want to hear newer MA too live.

anyway just weird to me that literally the classic lineup is just a Trey away but due to whatever irreconcilables, there will be two MAs for a while now.

(my first paragraph not being clear, Sandoval joined the I Am Morbid act)