Keeping Tabs | Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness
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- Опубликовано: 20 окт 2024
- My review of an album I hold near & dear to my heart. Enjoy!
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Looks like this video has been picking up steam lately. I'm not sure how or why but I won't complain! Unfortunately, I don't have enough subs to make a community post yet, so I'll post a quick update right here.
As of right now, I'm working on another video similar to this one, about Metallica's Black Album. It's going to be roughly 90 minutes long. I'll be reviewing the album itself and breaking down the whole "sellout" controversy, which surrounds the album and Metallica as a whole. So if that's something you're interested in seeing, feel free to subscribe! It should be done by Late May/Early June.
Thank you all for the support and kind words here too! Altars is a damn masterpiece.
Oh shit I just found your channel and I’m now I’m extra hyped
Your video was shared in a Morbid Angel Facebook fan group. Some of the traffic is from there.
You know what album gets no love? Dark Angel's Time Does Not Heal. I would love to see you do a Keeping Tabs on that album.
Damn! You really should make other videos with this same format. Absolutely quality stuff.
Can’t wait to see this channel grow
"Brunelle contributing some of the solos"
I'm pretty sure Richard had more solos on Altars than Trey. Richard was a fantastic player.
Wicked album, without a doubt my favourite, an absolute masterpiece, and a top notch video, well done dude. MORBID ANGEL RULE 🤘
I was impatient, thanks!
GIVE US MORE OF THESE KEEPING TABS METAL ONLY PLEAAASE
bro youARE A FUCKING GENIUS YOUR DISECTION OF THE ALBUM AND SONGS ARE AMAZING MAN
I’ve listened to this album so much I can’t even count and before watching this video I didn’t think I could love it any more.
Best EVER review of this CLASSIC album!!!.. this was PERFECT !!!! 💯💯💯💯🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
Ironically, this masterpiece was the first old-school death metal I heard. Today I love death metal because of Morbid Angel. Excellent review!
Same
My top 3 Morbid tracks of all time are Maze of Torment, Chapel of Ghouls and Evil Spells, in that order.
I never expected Rush to pop up on a video about Morbid Angel. My two favorite bands ever.
RUclips Algorithm has blessed me with this channel. Subbed!
I had the first two albums on tape as a teenager in the mid 90s. Some time ago I rediscovered Morbid Angel and it was Domination that did it. Recently I read that Altars of madness was 5 years in the making. Personally I think Blessed are the sick is more mature, then Covenant I never really got to know, but Domination is for me their pinnacle. It’s more varied, more groovy at times and more experimental on several tracks.
3 years after and I just discovered you Chanel, and of course thank you for make me found again my biggest influence in death metal ❤
Yeah MA could not really top this album. Even though Covenant comes EXTREMELY close. Altars is just perfection. Honestly would say that THIS album, Death’s Symbolic, Carcass’s Heartwork are the best possible starting points to Death Metal (well at least those were my starting points)
Everything past the first 3 Death albums are pompous and overrated.
Left Hand Path over Heartwork imo but Heartwork is obviously a great LP. Regarding Altars, it sure is a legendary album and a highly influential one for all of extreme metal.. I actually consider Altars to be very influential for black metal as well. Most people don’t seem to notice how black of an album Altars really is.. the textured atmospheres, highly blasphemous and evil lyrics and loads of tremolo picking. Personally I consider it a unique DM / BM hybrid.. maybe even stronger on the BM side of things.
I love the buildup in the video to the Maze of Torment riff. I knew exactly what you were getting at. That riff is iconic.
I have learned soo much from you on this album than I have learned in my last 25 years. Instantly subscribed in minute 1 :v
Please keep it up bruv! Hails!
Bro you literally made a video about my favorite bands and albums
Dan Segrave has done some classic album art
love that album and all the other subsequent alphabet titles
The snare hit in Immortal Rites should be illegal it’s so nasty
i do love, how Morbid Angel have these twisted thing, plenty or roman victorious marchs, and catchy spicy guitar riffing
Just listened to this album, and I gotta say........ it was a soliloquy of slaughter to my ears, and I loved it🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘 your channel deserves more subs bro!!!!! I subbed....
I love how you summed up this whole album, its great. Thank you in the name of death metal :D
Great video my friend. One of my fav albums all time. Gonna watch the black album one next
Altars of Madness
The best album of all times!! Same as you is my favourite metal album. I'm from Chile and every time they visit us,I go to see them live. Great channel, here is another sub. 🤘🏻😎
One thing I love on this album is the harmonizer effect on some of the solos. facken great!
"[Sandoval] knew when to hold back"
I think he lost that ability pretty soon though. There's so many moments on Covenant where he's double bassing or filling when he really shouldn't be.
First off this was an awesome video and was very surprised you have so few subscribers plus views. You have a new subscriber. My favorite album by them was Covenant which is the first album I got by them in the early 90’s. It inspired me to start learning how to play Death Metal on guitar and drums. Morbid Angels most technical album by far is Formula’s Fatal to the Flesh. There is a band that was doing Death Metal before a lot of the other big Godfathers of Death Metal and that band was called “Macabre”. They started in 1984 and are still putting out albums to this day.
This is an absolutely spot on review of this album. After seeing "Rapture" on the old MTV "Countdown to the ball" I picked up the Covenant CD as well as the Blessed and Alters tapes (because when you're in the south all you could find of absolutely brutal metal was on cassettes). Alters ripped my face off. For weeks a brooding 14yo was soaked in late night listening sessions letting the imagery of David Vincent's immaculate lyricism and Brunelle's and Azagthoth's wild chaos flow through my mind. Blessed deserves a follow up for it's almost symphonic level of musical arrangement but Alters is unmatched in its raw power.
Good job on the video. You have good editing, good sound quality and you make some valid points. I'm surprised you have such a small amount of subscribers but if you keep doing what you're doing you'll compete with bigger creators in no-time!
Finally some good fucking metal analysis
Could you do a similar video of something like The Red in The Sky is Ours or Under a Funeral Moon?
damn, amazing work buddy, hope your channel grows!
Morbid Angel at The Stone in San Francisco is still one of my favorite live shows of all time. Freakin mind blowin and the pit was brutal fun. Good memories.
Dude, amazing video, your channel has a lot of potential
Chuck from death would agree
Fantastic video, thank you.
A masterpiece album but then again they made more masterpieces after Altars. Amazed at the nomination of Maze of Torment as the greatest riff ever. I'm a massive MA fan but I've never had that riff down as anything special. In fact I wouldn't even put it in my top 50 MA riffs.
The beat thing about Morbid is the sumerian stuff. Made em different than all of the satanic or gore death metal.
Perfect album. Never gets old. Fun fact, the band must regard this as their debut because title begins with 'A', next B, C etc
2:19 first video where ive seen someone pronounce his name exactly as Trey does
Holy shit dude your content is fucking amazing idk how you only have 88 subs youre fucking great
You literally described everything i love about morbid angel
I prefer their second album "Blessed are the Sick" over this album. Maybe that's an unpopular opinion. Blessed has way more changes, not only with time signatures, but also with over all feel and mood. Every song feels different from the last but its still all awesome.
Not an unpopular opinion at all. Both albums are masterpieces so it's really just a matter of personal preference. Brunelle's instrumental on that album (Desolate Ways) is absolutely beautiful.
I might be with you if BATS had different production. It sounds.... weird. The songs are incredible but it’s so dry and could stand to have been a little more “living” feeling
@@Gumbo72203 Doesn't sound weird to me at all. I like the production. The songs are far more diverse with more changes, feelings & moods. Some songs are fast, others are slow and groovy. Some songs have both mixed in. There's even classical & synth instrumentals on it. David's voice is much clearer too and varied. Some songs he does higher vocals like Altars, on others he is more low and guttural. I'd argue that altars had weaker production than blessed and all the songs on altars have the same thrash/death feel. There's timing changes on Altars but not many mood changes like on Blessed. Actually my absolute favorite Morbid Angel album is Covenant. Its like they took influences from the first two albums and made something even better. Covenant is also David's best vocal performance.
the fact Trey was a Pink Floyd fan is amazing
my top death metal guitarrists:
Trey azzaghtoth
Richard brunelle
Terrance Hobbs
Robert Vigna
Dude!! You and Bill Zebub (The Grimiore of Exhalted Deeds Magazine) should team up and do a comical metal review channel (would be a refreshing take on the "often too serious" genre). Just a thought.
I remember when i heard this for the first time i was like "Woah!! Holy shiiit this is so crazy and heavy and beautiful" and sometimes "Wtf is going on here??"
This album is truly flawless
First of all, I really appreciate your efforts and work as a whole. This is, by far, the best analysis related to "Altars of Madness" I've ever seen. However, there are some points that I disagree.
Without offense, what I can say is that since "Altars of Madness" is your most favorite death metal album as I understand, I have no argument against your personal taste. Rather, I want to share my so-called observations on it.
If I compare "Altars" with the other legendary death metal debuts (such as "Slowly We Rot", "Scream Bloody Gore", "Deicide", "Eaten Back to Life" etc.), I agree that it might be the most complete, artistic, sophisticated and genre-defining one. But, does the album include all these adjectives in general or can it be the best death metal album ever? That's the point where I disagree.
Although I think that "Altars of Madness" is the best debut of death metal in many aspects, yet it is neither innovative as much as Nocturnus' "The Key", nor sinister and chaotic as Immolation's "Dawn of Possession".
Additionally, it's not brutal and maniac as much as Cannibal Corpse's "Tomb of the Mutilated", not sophisticated as Pestilence's "Testimony of the Ancients", not ambient as Autopsy's "Mental Funeral", and not mind blowing as Death's "Individual Thought Patterns". These make the case clear that the band's records like "Blessed Are the Sick" and "Covenant" are also better than "Altars of Madness" in terms of song structure, mature musical perspective, and level of brutality. For a band like Morbid Angel, it's a matter of process and progress, except the post-"Heretic" era. So I don't agree with the idea like even the band itself could not reached beyond this album. I think, significance of Morbid Angel's debut comes from its position among the other death metal debuts around the late 80's and early 90's because it was the first death metal album synthesizing a talented and a visionaire musicianship with a high production quality.
On the other hand, if we know so many bands influenced by Morbid Angel's sound today, I think "Blessed...", "Covenant", "Domination" (my least favorite one), and especially "Formulas..." have more credit than "Altars...", to speak historically. Trey's guitar works in "Covenant" and "Formulas" unmatched...
While Death was creating the genre, Morbid Angel put forward almost all characteristics of it and the record that they did it was "Altars of Madness" at those years, but with the 90's; almost every major death metal band's 2nd and 3rd albums overshadowed their first ones.(exceptions are not included.)
Thank you for that Greta Van Vleet reference
great video!
Dan Seagrave! Legend.
Ace review
If you play guitar or drums this album will never not be fun to play along to. It's hard if you're not very good and it's never too comfortable even if you're good and have played it 100 times already. Something about the old MA material and feel. A certain energy.
I got ..thy kingdom come ! Also a tattoo of the cover wrapped around my arm.. When I Was locked up
Excellent !
Amazing video! You've earned a subscriber!
LOL at the Greta Van Fleet part
I have a hard time picking a favorite album from these guys, too. Like, today I'd say it's this album, tomorrow Covenant, maybe Gateways after that. They were so consistent back in the day.
Death metal rules🤘
Yassssss this is great man!!
Think I’ll listen to some morbid angel now
Hold on… there’s a channel that is like AVGN but for music? I’m intrigued.
My fav!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hella entertaining video!:)
Please make Suffocation Pierced From WIthin!!!
Breakthrough album for sure, but all the songs sound in the same key, not structurally, but you can probably shuffle some riffs between songs and it’ll still get praise because of the wild structure. I love Morbid Angel, but I can’t say they wrote memorable riffs the same way Death wrote riffs you can hum in your breath. Similarly with early Cannibal Corpse.
I don't think people are thinking about humming Alters of Madness after listening to it. It's a different kind of rabid aggression, although very well played. Craps on the stuff of that same era. Imo obviously. It was different at the time.
Its morbid time
Anybody know what the track is at about 1:37 to intro the genre and what band that is?
Death - Evil Dead
Niiiiice.
Great video:)
SUBBED🤘
While Alters is not my favorite morbid Angel album. You make very good points
fukn sick dude
Could you do a keep tabs on cannibal corpse?
I might just do that one day. I don't think it would be an album review or anything like that. It'll likely be a doc/video essay focused on one of many landmark moments in the band's history. The lead singer change from Chris Barnes to Corpsegrinder in particular is a fascinating story to me.
@@MadMike1 yeah I get it, depending on which album it would be too hardcore for RUclips, specially with the album covers and song titles.
Good video :)
"Shadows cast from faceless beings
Lost for centuries" Yes and lyrics that read like the Necronomicon.
Beautiful brutality. ⛧🤘💀🤘⛧
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