Negative-Existence - MORPHOSIS "Rise of The Bastard Deities" CD

MORPHOSIS "Rise of The Bastard Deities" CD
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MORPHOSIS "Rise of The Bastard Deities" CD

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Artist: MORPHOSIS

Title: Rise of The Bastard Deities

Format: CD

Country: Ireland

Genre: Death Metal

Record Label: Sentinel

Killer old-school death metal from this Irish band. After releasing demos in the early '90s, they finally return to offer their debut album in the same spirit of those bygone days.

Tracklisting:

1. Plight of the Fallen Ones 03:15
2. Psychosomatics 03:18
3. Kindred 03:53
4. Rise of the Bastard Deities 04:11
5. Depraved 03:38
6. Conflagration 03:36
7. Preyed Upon 03:11
8. Crown of Thorns 03:49
9. Shred 01:01
10. Rabid 05:00
Total playing time 34:52

Sounds:

Review:

[metalireland]

Like many bands highly rated in Ireland’s popular metal lore, much of Morphosis’ appeal is historical. It’s taken so long for the band to come back in full gigging and recording form that the intervening years gave given plenty of time for legend to grow.

They carved out their name, and of that there’s no doubt. They’ve gigged sporadically over the last year or two, but have been otherwise quiet since their nineties heyday. Are they still relevant in 2009?

In as much as a recalibration of people’s death metal tastes are happening then yes. Just.

They play it the old way, the dirty, heavy way, which is increasingly appreciated as time goes on. That very quality, though, has located them in a time and place that musically, it could be said, we’ve moved on from.

Stick on their decade old (and essential) ‘Malicious Malfiguration’ tape nowadays and it almost sounds as fresh as this. Which means one of two things: either it was so far ahead of its time as to be out of this world, or that the band haven’t really moved on much. The latter is the case. That means it had really ought to be awesome at this stage of the game.

Good old school death metal done well can be one of life’s greatest kicks. That’s not what the problem is here. The problem is that you just have to step back a bit and say: ‘if this was any other band, would it grab me?’

Because being perfectly and rather harshly honest only about four tracks here out of ten truly would.

Initially, the similarity to Abaddon Incarnate’s crustfuck ‘Nadir’ album is striking. The guitar tone takes the same cues from Nasum, while the drumming is comparably modern in attack. The standout tracks – ie the fast ones – like the great ‘Preyed Upon’, ‘Shred’ and ‘Rabid’ are almost as good as their colleagues...

This product was added to our catalog on Sunday 06 March, 2011.

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