Morbid visions

Morbid visions
Studio album from Sepultura
Publication (s)	1986
admission	August 1986
Label (s)	Cogumelo Records
Format (s)	LP
Genre (s)	Death metal
Title (number)	9
occupation	Singing , rhythm guitar : Max Cavalera Lead guitar : Jairo T. Electric bass : Paulo Jr. Drums : Igor Cavalera
production	Eduardo Santos, Ze "Heavy" Luiz
Studio (s)	Estúdio Vice Versa
chronology Século XX / Bestial Devastation (Split, 1985) Morbid visions Schizophrenia (1987)

Morbid Visions is the debut album by the Brazilian metal band Sepultura . It was recorded in 7 days with 16 tracks in August 1986 at the Estúdio Vice Versa, Belo Horizonte , and released on LP that same year. From 1991 the album was re-released several times together with Sepultura's contribution to the split LP Século XX / Bestial Devastation with Overdose under the title Morbid Visions / Bestial Devastation , whereby the unison of the original LP version taken from Carl Orff's Carmina Burana was omitted, so that the re-release begins with the title song of the original pressing.

Track list

1. Intro
2. Morbid visions
3. Mayhem
4. Troops of Doom
5. Was
6. Crucifixion
7. Show Me the Wrath
8. Funeral rites
9. Empire of the Damned

Style and texts

Unlike the recordings for Bestial Devastation , the band wasn't completely inexperienced at the time of recording; the songs are faster and, in Max Cavalera's opinion, better written and played than on the predecessor, and he also rated the production as better. The music is raw, primitive and aggressive and has been described in reviews as both death metal and black-metal- influenced Thrash metal and compared to Sodom and Kreator . The drums are dominant in sound.

The texts, in plain, grammatically incorrect English, relate to satanism and war. Max Cavalera stated that the inspiration for the songs came mainly from books on black magic , and answered yes to the question of whether Sepultura sees itself as a satanic band. Satanism is the best subject for a death metal band, he loves to study witchcraft and the like, and leaves other subjects like politics to the punks . Due to insufficient knowledge of English, the band had to translate the texts word for word from Portuguese .

Reviews

Metalion wrote in Slayer - Fanzine , Bestial Devastation was already "a really brutal product", and the music had become since then faster and harder. According to Spiritech from the e-zine PyroMusic.net , it would be easy to tear up Sepultura's early work, among other things because of the production and the often silly lyrics. The fact that the band was still in a development phase could, however, be ignored due to their noticeable enthusiasm. Martin Loga from Powermetal.de emphasized that this music is not for “fans of aesthetic metal music” and “can only bring joy to those who appreciate albums like Sodom's In the Sign of Evil and Kreators Endless Pain .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Sepultura . In: Damage Inc. , No. 1, 1987, p. 23.
2. ↑ ^{a b c} "This is DEATH, FUCKIN` DEATH! You got it? Their EP "Bestial Devastation" is an [sic!] Real brutal product. And everyone who has heard it know [sic!] What I mean! So what about their new lp "Morbid Visions"? Well, I have only heard the four track advance tape, and it is really faster and heavier as the band claimed! “ Metalion : Sepultura . In: Slayer vol. 5 - 1987. the return .... , p. 36. Quoted from: Jon Kristiansen : SLAYER. N ° 1 to 5 . Rosières en Haye: Camion Blanc 2009, p. 425.
3. ↑ Idelber Avelar: Heavy Metal Music in Postdictatorial Brazil: Sepultura and the Coding of Nationality in sound . In: Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies , Volume 12, No. 3, 2003, p. 333.
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Spiritech: Review of: Sepultura - Morbid Visions / Bestial Devastation ( Memento of November 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on January 1, 2013.
5. ↑ ^{a b} Martin Loga: Sepultura / Morbid Visions / Bestial Devastation , February 27, 2009, accessed on January 1, 2013.
6. ↑ ^{a b} Keith Harris: 'Roots' ?: The Relationship between the Global and the Local within the Extreme Metal Scene ( Memento of the original from March 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Popular Music , Volume 19, No. 1, January 2000. 
7. ↑ Sepultura . In: Damage Inc. , No. 1, 1987, p. 24.
8. ↑ Keith Harris: 'Roots' ?: The Relationship between the Global and the Local within the Extreme Metal Scene ( Memento of the original from March 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Popular Music , Volume 19, No. 1, January 2000.