Morbid Angel
Morbid Angel is an American death metal band formed in 1983 out of the Florida death metal scene.
Quotes
[edit]- This album is dedicated to the underground and all speed, death, and black metal fans everywhere.
- From the liner notes of the deluxe edition of Altars of Madness
Song lyrics
[edit]- Come to me, lord of filth
Hear my cries, princes of nightmares
Touch us with your morbid lips
Let us taste your foulness.- "Bleed For the Devil," Altars of Madness (1989) as quoted by David Browne of Entertainment Weekly [1]
Quotes about Morbid Angel
[edit]- [...] Morbid Angel's Altars of Madness changed everything [about the Swedish scene]. Before that there was no clear distinction between death, speed, or thrash among regular metalheads. It was just brutal metal. But Altars of Madness opened people's eyes, and made us realize something new was going on. Everybody bought that record. Everybody. And thrash was executed by it – the whole genre just disappeared.
- Robban Becirovic of Close-Up Magazine, Ekeroth, Daniel (January 1, 2008). Swedish Death Metal. Bazillion Points Books. p. 140. ISBN 9780979616310.
- Few albums struck a chord within the ears and minds of the late-'80s underground metal scene like Morbid Angel's Altars of Madness did at the end of the decade, setting a new precedent for metal bands to reach.
- I remember walking backstage in the early days and seeing the guys from Morbid Angel sitting around a chalice, cutting themselves and bleeding into the cup. I thought, That's fuckin' nuts. We played crazy music, but we didn't roll like that.
- For anyone who looks beyond the band’s Satanic image and bloodletting rituals, Morbid Angel were death metal masters. Their debut album, 1989’s Altars of Madness, raised the bar from a musician’s perspective and gave others in the scene a motivational punch in the teeth.
- Death had beaten Morbid Angel to the honor of releasing the first unadulterated death metal album, but Morbid Angel took the blueprint and built the damn house. The seminal ‘Altars of Madness’ came in 1989, marrying Trey Azagthoth’s jagged, earth-heaving riffs with Pete Sandoval’s unmatched double kicks and unhinged blast beats.
