Everything about Morbid Angel totally explained
Morbid Angel is a
Florida-based
death metal band assembled in 1983. They, along with
Deicide,
Death,
Possessed,
Obituary,
Massacre,
Cannibal Corpse and a handful of others were crucial in the development of the death metal genre and its standards. UK music magazine Terrorizer ranked two Morbid Angel albums in its "Top 40 Greatest Death Metal Albums," with
Altars of Madness appearing at #1.
Decibel Magazine also rated guitarist
Trey Azagthoth as the #1 "Death Metal Guitarist Ever." Their songs are complex in arrangement, owing to the considerable technical skills of Trey and drummer
Pete Sandoval who also played in the
grindcore/death metal band
Terrorizer.
History
Morbid Angel made their vinyl debut in 1987 on
New Renaissance Records. Morbid Angel was one of the original
death metal bands signed to
Earache Records, and was also influential in the transition of death metal from its
thrash metal roots to its current form by adding guttural vocals, up-tempo
blast beats, incorporating
atonality in guitar soloing, and dark, chunky, mid paced rhythms. It was also the first death metal band to have a touch of mainstream success, such as being signed to
Giant Records in 1992 and having the music video for the song "God of Emptiness" shown on an episode of
Beavis and Butthead.
The original lyrical themes focused mostly on
Satanism,
paganism and
anti-Christian subject matter, but from the second album,
Blessed Are the Sick onward, the lyrics slowly moved toward the ancient
Sumerian gods, though much of this is a nod to the
Simon Necronomicon, which was influenced by Sumerian mythology as well as the author
H. P. Lovecraft, as well as a fascination with the
Roman Empire, though anti-christian elements continue to permeate the lyrics.
As stated on their official website, Morbid Angel's appearance on some of the mid-summer 2008 European festivals is announced as a "short break from writing and pre-production of their new"
8th Studio album (most likely starting with the letter "I", as all of Morbid Angel's albums, starting with Altars of Madness, have followed an alphabetic theme
) which would be the follow-up to 2003's
Heretic and the bands first ever release under
Candlelight/
Roadrunner Records.
In 2008, Sandoval told Music T.V. that the next album would most probably be entitled "
Iblis the Great," which is
Arabic for the primary devil (
Satan).
In May it was announced that
Thor Anders Myhren of
Zyklon would be the band's new touring guitarist. It is also thought that Myhren will appear on Morbid Angel's upcoming album Iblis the Great.
Line-up
Current
Former
Dallas Ward - bass guitar, vocals (1983 - 1985)
Kenny Bamber - vocals (1985)
Mike Browning - drums, percussion, vocals (1983 - 1986)
John Ortega - bass guitar (1985-1986)
Sterling Von Scarborough - bass guitar (1986)
Michael Manson - vocals (1986)
Wayne Hartsell - drums (1986 - 1988)
Gino Marino - guitar (1992 - 1993)
Richard Brunelle - guitar (1985 - 1992, 1994, 1998)
Jared Anderson - vocals, bass guitar (2001 - 2002)
Steve Tucker - vocals, bass guitar (1997 - 2001, 2003 - 2004)
Tony Norman - guitar (2003-2006)
Erik Rutan - lead guitar, keyboards (1993 - 1996, 1999 - 2002, 2006)
Discography
Altars of Madness (1989)
Blessed Are the Sick (1991)
Abominations of Desolation (1991) — first Morbid Angel's studio demo recorded in 1986, and released by Earache in 1991
Covenant (1993)
Domination (1995)
Entangled in Chaos (1996)
Formulas Fatal to the Flesh (1998)
Gateways to Annihilation (2000)
Heretic (2003)
Iblis the Great (TBA)
Other releases
Thy Kingdom Come (1987) - 7" single
Laibach Re-mixes (1994)
Entangled in Chaos (1996) — live album
Love of Lava — a bonus CD with re-release of Formulas Fatal to the FleshFurther Information
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