Death Metal Album Club

Wpnfire · 10-04-2017, 07:03 PM

Morbid Visions

I am already familiar with this album and my opinion is still the same: It's barely worth listening to when Hellhammer and Darkness Descends are both easily available. It sounds like a combination of both without being as good as either.

3/5

Trollheart · 10-07-2017, 05:29 PM

Morbid Visions/Bestial Devastation - Sepultura

I know everyone is expecting me to hate this. I don't particularly love it, but I can see it as a kind of engaging instance of old school Death Metal, and when you consider that the guys were just learning English, well as a debut it could be worse. The production is **** though - Wiki tells me they forgot to tune their guitars, and it shows - and the whole thing seems very dense and more than a little raw. The vocals are really stilted, but again my friend Wiki reveals that they were actually translating word for word from Brazilian, so that can't have been easy: learning the language as you wrote about it. Got to give them points for effort. They could just have said "**** it: we'll sing in Portuguese" but they didn't.

As Batty says, most of the songs sound the same: I'd be hard pressed to take anything out of this and say "that was different". It all goes mile a minute, and to be perfectly honest, I don't think too much of the guitar work really, though I know they got better. The addition of the EP was really pointless, as it doesn't show any deviation from, or improvement on, the album, so it's basically just another twenty-odd minutes of mediocity to suffer through, and the opening "incantation" is painfully stupid.

Yes, I can certainly see the Black Metal influences here, and if Sepultura were a BM band I think I could forgive them more easily, particularly on a debut, but here it's really just a mess. You have to give them points for trying though, and as I say, they improved with time. I can also see the comparisons to Hell Awaits, though this is more Haunting the Chapel for me, while nowhere near as good.

Oh, and Batty, once again: I HAVE heard Chaos AD, though not the other one. When I get a moment I'll try to listen to it. Still better than Tomb ****ing Mold though.

(It is actually two and a half, but I don't have half cleaver images, and it's better than a two-cleaver rating so...)

10-04-2017, 07:03 PM	#1 (permalink)
Wpnfire Dragon Join Date: Jan 2014 Location: Kansas, United States Posts: 2,744	Morbid Visions I am already familiar with this album and my opinion is still the same: It's barely worth listening to when Hellhammer and Darkness Descends are both easily available. It sounds like a combination of both without being as good as either. 3/5 __________________ Last.FM My RYM Ratings *My Glitchwave Beta Profile*

10-07-2017, 05:29 PM	#2 (permalink)
Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,996	Morbid Visions/Bestial Devastation - Sepultura I know everyone is expecting me to hate this. I don't particularly love it, but I can see it as a kind of engaging instance of old school Death Metal, and when you consider that the guys were just learning English, well as a debut it could be worse. The production is ** though - Wiki tells me they forgot to tune their guitars, and it shows - and the whole thing seems very dense and more than a little raw. The vocals are really stilted, but again my friend Wiki reveals that they were actually translating word for word from Brazilian, so that can't have been easy: learning the language as you wrote about it. Got to give them points for effort. They could just have said "** it: we'll sing in Portuguese" but they didn't. As Batty says, most of the songs sound the same: I'd be hard pressed to take anything out of this and say "that was different". It all goes mile a minute, and to be perfectly honest, I don't think too much of the guitar work really, though I know they got better. The addition of the EP was really pointless, as it doesn't show any deviation from, or improvement on, the album, so it's basically just another twenty-odd minutes of mediocity to suffer through, and the opening "incantation" is painfully stupid. Yes, I can certainly see the Black Metal influences here, and if Sepultura were a BM band I think I could forgive them more easily, particularly on a debut, but here it's really just a mess. You have to give them points for trying though, and as I say, they improved with time. I can also see the comparisons to Hell Awaits, though this is more Haunting the Chapel for me, while nowhere near as good. Oh, and Batty, once again: I HAVE heard Chaos AD, though not the other one. When I get a moment I'll try to listen to it. Still better than Tomb ***ing Mold though. (It is actually two and a half, but I don't have half cleaver images, and it's better than a two-cleaver rating so...) __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018*