Blessed Are the Sick
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May 1991 |
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January & February 1991 |
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| Label (s) | Earache Records | |||
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CD, LP, MC |
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13 |
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running time |
39 min 30 s |
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Blessed Are the Sick is the second album by the US death metal band Morbid Angel .
Background information
The album is stylistically close to the predecessor Altars of Madness or the successor Covenant . It was very successful commercially, Morbid Angel was one of the best-selling bands on their Earache Records label at the time the album was released . The cover of the album is the picture Les Tresors de Satan by the Belgian painter and occultist Jean Delville , the artwork is by Martin Nesbitt. The music for the album came from Trey Azagthoth , only the instrumental Desolate Ways was composed by Richard Brunelle. David Vincent wrote the lyrics of the songs . The album was recorded in January and February 1991 at the Morrisound studio in Tampa , Florida .
Track list
- Intro - 1:27 (Azagthoth / Vincent)
- Fall from Grace - 5:13 (Azagthoth / Vincent)
- Brainstorm - 2:34 (Azagthoth / Vincent)
- Rebel Lands - 2:41 (Azagthoth / Vincent)
- Doomsday Celebration - 1:49 (Azagthoth)
- Day of Suffering - 1:54 (Azagthoth / Vincent)
- Blessed Are the Sick / Leading the Rats - 4:47 (Azagthoth / Vincent)
- Thy Kingdom Come - 3:24 (Azagthoth / Vincent)
- Unholy Blasphemies - 2:10 (Azagthoth / Vincent)
- Abominations - 4:27 (Azagthoth)
- Desolate Ways - 1:40 (Brunelle)
- The Ancient Ones - 5:53 (Azagthoth)
- In Remembrance - 1:25 (Azagthoth)
style
The album can be assigned to Death Metal . The songs number 8, 9, 10 and 12 are newly recorded pieces of the demos Abominations of Desolation from 1986. Fall from Grace stylistically corresponds to the previous album , Brainstorm is more technical, but still in keeping with the style of the band. The "surprisingly melodic [e]" Rebel Lands with its dominating guitar solos, on the other hand, deviates from this, and the title track with doom-metal- heavy passages and church choir samples tends towards a progressive style. According to Stewart Voegtlin from TheLeftHandPath.com , Azagthoth was inspired by Dave Lombardo and also mentioned Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Johann Sebastian Bach as influences ; In titles like Brainstorm and Thy Kingdom Come , starting from the previous album, he sees a logical path, which means that the band enjoys tiptoeing between mathematical precision and visceral devotion used as a weapon.
Publications
The album was released in May 1991 as LP , CD and MC . A leather box with five 7 ″ singles, limited to 2,000 pieces, was also released . In November 2002, Earache released a slipcase edition limited to 5,000 pieces with the music video for the title track Blessed Are the Sick as a bonus. Earache also released a Picture Disc and a DualDisc in the summer of 2009 , on the DVD side of which you will find a one-hour documentation on the album and the band's history.
Reviews
Frank Albrecht from the rock-hard magazine described the album as probably the most anticipated in Death Metal, which had to be measured against its predecessor. He liked the album, but he couldn't answer whether the band had released an equal successor to Altars of Madness . In his opinion, the only thing missing from the album is “over-hammers” like Chapel of Ghouls or Immortal Rites . Therefore, Blessed Are the Sick was "a very good record, but not the expected hit". In 2009, the magazine added the album to the list of "250 Black Metal Albums To Know". The side TheLeftHandPath.com sees the album as essential and took it into his Florida death metal primer on. According to the website anus.com , the album explains the death metal culture and the essence it carries in an overwhelming way.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Albert Mudrian: Choosing Death: The Incredible Story of Death Metal & Grindcore . IP Verlag, 2006, ISBN 978-3-931624-35-4 , pp. 162 .
- ^ A b Frank Albrecht: MORBID ANGEL . Blessed Are The Sick . In: Rock Hard , No. 50.
- ↑ a b Florida Death Metal Primer - Part 2. TheLeftHandPath.com, July 12, 2010, accessed on September 23, 2010 (English): “Metal media portrayed it as Angel's South of Heaven . I never heard it that way. Shit, there are only a coupla tunes here that operate under 85 mph Not nearly as egregious as Slayer slipping from ur-speed Thrash to chug-a-chug old guy anthem, but still it took a summer to acclimate. Azagthoth steals a page from Lombardo and peppers interviews with nods to Mozart, Bach, while listeners grow the horn from Hustler and shred on Diamondbacks. [...] "Brainstorm" and "Thy Kingdom Come" - the best suffocation tune the band ever wrote - carry on logically from Altars , which is to say they enjoy tip-toeing fine line between mathematic precision and weaponized, visceral abandon. "
- ↑ 250 Black Metal Albums That You Should Know . In: Rock Hard , No. 269, October 2009, p. 75.
- ↑ The Dark Legions Archive: Burzum - Ambient Black Metal. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on July 10, 2009 ; accessed on December 3, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Web links
- Blessed Are the Sick on Allmusic (English)
- Blessed Are the Sick (data sheet) on the band's official website