Morbid Angel "Blessed Are the Sick" CD

The tremendous success of "Altars Of Madness" did not make the band of Trey Azagthoth rest on their laurels or let them down. On the contrary, Morbid Angel decided to forge their style of music and surprise their listeners a lot! Two years later they hit with an lp which was as well as the debut and for me, it's even better than "Altars..." iteself. The reason is very simple, "Blessed Are The Sick" is a death metal even more interesting, much more complex and with a slightly different feeling than its predecessor, and at the same time extreme enough to please all the fans of its predecessor or generally fond of such sounds.
There were just a lot of sensible changes that did not affect the extreme side of music on "Blessed...". The Americans from Morbid Angel, on the one hand, allowed much more layoffs than before and put much more emphasis on the technique and climate (or - to put it bluntly - on the general arrangement), on the other hand, they decided to narrow down the songs, where blasts predominate, and with slow paces they tried to make them as difficult as with the "normal" ones. So they flew quite boldly with it, but naturally, it all fits well with the music. The best example, the first mega hit "Fall From Grace", slower (which does not mean that no blasts!), with a clearly lower vocal by David Vincent and an interestingly developing "spoken" theme in the middle.
However, there are also highlights in the further part of the album. Here it is worth mentioning, for example, "Day Of Suffering", "Abominations", "Thy Kingdom Come" or "Blessed Are The Sick/Leading The Rats", and these are not all of the whole list - I would have to mention all "regular" songs. Well, since I have already gone to the topic of intros, there are 4 of them. The atmospheric "Doomsday Celebration" and "Desolate Ways" are nice, but "Intro" and "In Remembrance" can be easily clicked - they only fill the time unnecessarily. However, there is no need to worry more about this, after all, these are just interludes. Most importantly, the main music breaks through "Altars..." and makes quite an impression to this day. As for me, the debut has been surpassed. Well, the cult of this record is also well deserved!

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