Comments on: Morbid Angel – Illud Divunum Insanus

By: Old Pick Axe

Old Pick Axe — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 22:01:17 +0000

I’m sitting here in the dark listening to “Visions From The Dark Side” from Altars Of Madness…and thinking about how GOOD this album could have and should have been.

By: shaolinlambkiller

shaolinlambkiller — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 15:10:50 +0000

Album is terrible. the death metal songs sound like throwaways from Domination but more tedious and tired sounding. The mix is god awful. And the worst part isn’t the album is all the people coming to defend it because they can’t stand someone else doesn’t like it. Just because I don’t like the album doesn’t mean i’m close minded, trying to get scene points (whatever the fuck that is), or latching on to some group mentality. Can’t I simply hate an album I don’t like because I don’t like it?

By: Appollyonx

Appollyonx — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 07:40:06 +0000

I’d rather listen to both Heretic and Gateways on continuous repeat than this piece of shit. Easily the most disappointing release this year.

By: Shockwave

Shockwave — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 09:09:21 +0000

@Old pick axe: Please don’t get me wrong, I never meant to say all is lost with death metal, far from. Also I’m completely ok when bussiness is involved, there is nothing wrong making an honest buck on music. It’s the fact that someone doesn’t make a critical note when a seller (earache) is desperately defending his products (new MA album and re-releases surrounding it). Is there anything! else he could have said except nothing at all? ” Yeah new MA sucks balls, fuck that shit”. Not only would he have hurt his own company, he would have some serious problems with almost every other company he’s dealing with.

By: gabaghoul

gabaghoul — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 06:51:20 +0000

to be honest, I like some of the WTF tracks on here quite a bit – ‘Destructos vs the Earth’ is pretty cool (love the new wave clean vox tossed in there), and ‘Radikult’ reminds me of Pig, particularly Stroll in the Pork. ‘Too Extreme’ is weaksauce though, sounds like warmed-over Rammstein (who I also like).

Now of course this is all a real shock for a Morbid Angel album so I understand the outcry, but I’d actually return to these oddball tracks. on the other hand, most of the album’s actual ‘death metal’ tracks (with the exception of “Nevermore,” are completely forgettable and not worth the rest of the band’s legacy.

By: Old Pick Axe

Old Pick Axe — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 17:52:19 +0000

But that’s not entirely true, Shockwave. “Death metal business as usual” does not mean sucking ass. You need look no further than the new Vomitory and the new Autopsy to prove that all is not lost on the death metal front. Trust me, there’s still hope.

By: A.H

A.H — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 14:39:39 +0000

Digby’s got it nailed to an A. The shitstorm that this album has generated is at the same time humorous and disturbing. You don’t like something, you don’t listen to it. Me, I’ll have some more that Radikult please.

By: Shockwave

Shockwave — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 12:08:06 +0000

Kind of weird to completely trust the opinion of someone who actually has to sell lots of the new morbid angel, and not to forget, the re-releases they are doing surrounding the new album. Same thing as that desperate facebook posting from season of mist. He sums it up best in his last words:

“For Morbid Angel(/Earache) in 2011, its very much Death Metal business as usual.”

By: jerry

jerry — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 19:26:06 +0000

that link gives the impression that stylistic shifts in metal were accepted prior to the internet age, where apparently lemming behavior reigns over individual opinion, but come on dude. remember the backlash Carcass got over Swansong, which is 10x the record Illud is? Cold Lake? Cancer’s Black Faith? people didn’t have to download these records back then or read a metal forum to get disappointed by them. nowadays however people can get down to Swansong because although it wasn’t grind or whatever, it was still a mature, well written record. Nothing about Illud speaks to over 2 decades of songwriting maturity.

By: Nick Taxidermy

Nick Taxidermy — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 15:48:03 +0000

see, Blackwater Park? Objective opinions prevail. I listen to industrial and electronic pretty regularly. this disgraces those genres, as well. so yeah. go back under your bridge or whatever.

By: Apollyon

Apollyon — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 12:02:14 +0000

Finally gave the album a deserved listen. Never been the biggest Morbid Angel fan so I wasn’t expecting them to fit a certain mold. Nor did I have any expectations set for them, anyway. I also listen to plenty of other things besides ‘metal’, so I’m not that shy to new influences. With that context in mind, I have to agree with the guys shaking their heads: this album really is kind of a clusterfuck.

When you combine mediocre (death) metal with mediocre or bad industrial, it’s not extreme, it’s simply bad. And sad–not because a band of such stature would attempt to rejuvenate themselves–but because they fail so miserably at it. Had I not known this was Morbid Angel, I probably would have wondered if this was some early proof-of-concept demo.

To be brutally honest (and ready for the flak), I actually thought ‘Radikult’ was the most coherent, inspired and entertaining song on the album (especially when I imagine the kill a cop -line). Yet, the ending on the song is basically a good general view of the whole album. It absurdly cheap. Couldn’t they have actually used real string instruments to go with the painful masturbation grunts?

It’s cheap like most of the album’s ‘ground breaking’ elements. For example, ‘Destructos VS the Eart’ is like a castration on a children’s morning show. Weak, clean of anything and everything, and without any sort of vehemence. If they aimed for a sinister, cold, hard hitting album, they failed horribly. It’s all so very meh and bland. Powerless, even. To add to the injury, the actual death metal songs are really nothing to write home about either as the riffs and blasting are simply forgettable. And if the riffs don’t work, well, fuck it.

At times, David Vincent still has a decent voice though.

By: Blackwater Park

Blackwater Park — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 05:24:29 +0000

Digby Pearson (Earache boss) hits the nail on the head. Check it out here…

http://askearache.blogspot.com/2011/06/morbid-angel-illud-divinum-insanus-this.html

By: tom957

tom957 — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 00:25:55 +0000

I was totally hesitating to listen to any of this shitplatter. I heard some of Too Extreme! and Radikult. This raises the really-awesome-band-who-makes-a-horrible-fucking-album bar way too high.

By: Old Pick Axe

Old Pick Axe — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 16:53:50 +0000

To all my metal brothers who despised, loathed and considered killing themselves after hearing this piece of ass…check out the new Vomitory. It’ll make everything all better. NOW THAT’S A DEATH METAL ALBUM.

By: Blackwater Park

Blackwater Park — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 06:09:22 +0000

Uh huh.

By: faust

faust — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 03:01:52 +0000

Gentlemen, gentlemen!! Don’t feed the fuckin troll!!

BP – Please, I beg you, for the love of philosophy, veganism, adoption, cambodia, new zealand, anarchy, academia etc etc, SHUT THE FUCK UP (please) !!!

By: jerry

jerry — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 01:45:10 +0000

seriously dude, you saying that people that don’t want to hear MA experiment makes them good candidates for homophobic/racist mindsets is as generalizing as the ideology you are ripping on. people don’t like the record. and of course metal fans don’t like the record. we all didn’t stumble onto this website because of a flyer we saw at a rave.

By: Nick Taxidermy

Nick Taxidermy — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 01:29:30 +0000

trolled, huh? sounds about right.

By: Blackwater Park

Blackwater Park — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 00:01:12 +0000

wait, Nick… get over yourself. I didn’t say that not liking this album a priori makes one a racist or a homophobe, I said that individuals who are insecure about experimentation are also typically homophobes and racists, stemming from an insular mindset. This is an idea based upon observation, son. The fact that you’ve taken this statement very personally tells me one of following three things: 1) you don’t know how to read beyond a 3rd grade level; 2) the glove fits; or 3) both. Now run along and cry to Mommy because someone trolled you on the Internet, brah.

By: Nick Taxidermy

Nick Taxidermy — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 18:46:31 +0000

wait, Blackwater, who are you again? some goof standing up for some of the worst music I have heard in the last few months by comparing those who dislike it to actual bigots. I’m not even really a Morbid Angel fan, son. I don’t know their material that well. I heard some of this record, and was pretty much completely repulsed by its nu-metal apishness and utter lack of inspiration. if you’re down with it, good for you. I bet you might also be into Static X, brah.

By: Bludow

Bludow — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 07:57:29 +0000

“Killa kult kult killa kult LIVIN HARDCORE AND RADICAL!!” Fuckin love this shit. Illud is perhaps one of the greatest albums ever released. Not only by MA but by any band.

By: jerry

jerry — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 21:50:11 +0000

BP, its not about being close minded or whatever. honestly, we’re all adults here, i’m sure no one here really gives a shit about “scene points” or whatever. trey talks about in the article you linked that he wonders if metal audiences could get down with a mixed bill as long as the electronic artists are over the top and extreme, and if the electronic elements in Illud were in fact over the top and extreme there wouldnt be an issue. instead they are tired, completely transparent and downright embarrassing.

i linked this on metalreview-if the electronic stuff in illud was anywhere close to the extremity of THIS band, Illud could be a fucking monumental release.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zjgLC_R0JU&playnext=1&list=PLCC9FFA9F67F4E55E

By: Blackwater Park

Blackwater Park — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 20:53:27 +0000

Nick Taxidermy…

I didn’t know the definition of being a “coward” was calling a spade a spade? Thanks for that! Hope you have a great day! :)

By: Blackwater Park

Blackwater Park — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 20:52:28 +0000

Faust…

You don’t like me. I don’t like you either. It’s old news and nobody cares. Move on with your life.

By: Blackwater Park

Blackwater Park — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 20:51:26 +0000

“There is no accounting for taste but if you don’t like the new MA it’s because you’re a poser trying to score scene points.

Makes perfect sense to me. Kudos!”

Yeah, I can fully appreciate that some people genuinely don’t like this album. No problem. I just have a problem with all the people attempting to score scene points based on bashing it endlessly and the whole “400 reviews said it sucks, so it totally sucks” mentality. Think for yourself! If you don’t like it, fine who cares, but is it really necessary to go on and on about Trey and David’s integrity? Here is where he is coming from…

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=113789

He hits the nail on the head.