I met Vincent at a record store in Nottingham for the first grindcrusher tour and there was hardly nobody there. He hung out with us and gave us some merch and got us into the gig at Rock City that night. 2 years later they were back for the blessed tour and fans were cueing down the street at the same store. When I walked in he recognised me instantly, which annoyed alot of ppl there 😂. And again he got me into the show that night and took Amazing care of me. A Real grounded and Humble guy and a memory I will Always cherish. 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
i was there too mate. rockaboom records. i met carcass and dave and trey but i was too young to get into rock city that night. great time to be alive.👊
I met David when l was playing bass for Atheist to support the Unquestionably Tour… Tony and I were hanging out in Miami.He approached us and introduced himself.He was super cool! He congratulated me for getting the Atheist gig and at the time also Cynic.Tony had joined Pestilence. David is an intellectual and quite respectful. Morbid Angel was the gateway band for the metal in Tampa Bay… Cheers. Darren
Trey is a death metal Jedi master. One of the original players that taught us a new way to do things back in the day. Other bands may play faster or more technical nowadays but it’s really just a permutation of what these guys started. Trey is one of our last true teachers left, I look forward to anything his warped mind puts forth. This is just one of many brilliant albums…
@@elvissorna8861 yes I do too but 1998 is late there were other death metal bands that also made good albums better than Formulas I’m talking about the untouchable era that you mentioned pal
the first 3 Morbid Angel albums are absolutely untouchable. the atmosphere they created on those projects is so dark and unique. they really did separate themselves from the rest of the death metal bands of this era. Morbid Angel, Death, and Cannibal Corpse are the holy trinity of old school death metal 🤘🏼
@@devilxking2 agree that those 2 are amazing. but they still don’t beat out the first 3 in my opinion. I’m not really a fan of the rest of their catalogue outside of those 5 - Domination is good not great, and their last 3 just don’t do anything for me whatsoever.
In my opinion, Nile, Morbid Angel, Immolation, Incantation, Autopsy and Krisiun are the greatest death metal bands in the whole world. Every album they release, is a crushing piece of music.
I used to loop Blessed start to finish while working on cars with my close friends. Pinstriping, welding patch panels, dropping/removing in engines and transmissions, doing full paint jobs, man the memories. Blessed always takes me back to fun times. i loved that album right when I heard it. Best MA album ever, right in the feels.
Cannibal Corpse's documentaries were filmed mostly by the band(Alex Webster) which allowed a very personal look into the band. But, yes I totally agree...they should all be as good as theirs. They even have a more personal feel than most of Metallica's documentaries.
@@craigpaulson3503 That's right, most people didn't have a home video camera in the early 90s, and their extensive filming of their own memories when they were so young and hungry gave their documentary the material to make it so great.
Ageed. I remember this was an exciting time for me as I was diving into the world of death metal and this album just blew me away frm beginning to end. It was different ,just like the guys from Nile say, its was so artistic even progressive. It was quite different than ,say, Deicide(whom I adored and still do, their old stuff) and today I recognize how vastly better MA was than Deicide at the time. I would get high and repeatedly listen to this on autoreverse on my Aiwa walkman. Funny because most seem to always praise Covenant. Perhaps because it was very popular but I always like Blessed. Really, MA are pretty amazing for putting out so many consecutively really good albums with few shit songs. I am older now and really am digging Insomnium;s new Winter's Gate and pretty much all their stuff. Brilliant but very different.
Bought this album on cassette back in 1991 - scared the bejesus out of all of my friends playing it on a Walkman, they'd ask me: "what is that white noise?".....this magnificent, symphonic, elevated, artful, innovative, just plain beautiful album changed my life. There are solos by Trey on BATS, for example, that just defy belief, David kicks ass, Pete is incredible, and Richard definitely adds a lot...so glad I got to experience this heyday of Death Metal first time 'round....
Yep it was a good time to be a young headbanger I was fortunate enough to see them and Deicide live while they were in thieir prime and let me say being on acid in a Deicide mosh pit is probably one of the most primal and alive experiences of my life I feel sorry for young people today they missed out
absolute best death metal band from this era. saw them at the showcase in corona in early 90's. definitely inspired me to continue to play guitar. trey and richard were way ahead of their time.
the Showcase in Corona was definitely the shit obituary malevolent creation Cannibal Corpse suffocation those are the best shows at that little hole in the wall
From the first time I heard Morbid Angel I just love their musik I was around 15 y.o. now I´m 41 and they are FOR ME still Masters od Death Metal ! Morbid Angel rules ! Forever Morbid !
Fun fact: David Vincent wrote and recorded all of MA's parts by himself. He is so monumentally talented that he is able to project himself physically so that it appears to the outside observer as if he is 4 different people. Sandoval and Azagthoth never really existed. Nor did any of the other guitarists. In fact, you don't even exist. You are merely the external manifestation of David Vincent. There is no reality. Only Vincent. David Vincent is the Chuck Testa of metal.
John Morgan I totally agree Vincent is absolutely amazing.. that being said Tucker on formulas and the new one is all I'll except... gateways I guess they took roofies. Lol and illuid had some great songs most disagree and I understand.maybe Dave v was trying to get them out there more like when they was signed with giant records
I was at both of the shows at The Vatican (later named The Abyss) in Houston. I remember during the second show David started talking about the stabbing at the first show and the guy that got stabbed was being held up by his buddies and saying "that was me". David told him to get down before he gets stabbed again. 😆😆😆
Blessed are the Sick is undeniably the best death metal album hands down. This album still has the impact on me as it did the very first time I heard it back in 91'. And how they matched the artwork with the music...everything...absolute perfection.
I remember watching them in a club in 1992 I'm so lucky to have seen them live at that time The Altars of Madness is not just an album, it is a benchmark standard that separated try hard lousy attempts from guys who could really master the art form. They set the standard for death hands down.
@@Paddyllfixit IF it's just single foot grinding that you are into (it's GREAT!) But yeah, there's really NO comparison (drumming wise) between TERRORIZER and especially the BLESSED drumming....(Other than single foot blasts, NUTTIN similar other than the MAN playing it 😏🤘)
@@Mitchery NO listenable MA since parts from Gateways IMO. Most material since just ain't cutting it. I DO agree with your statement though I saw the Covenant 20 year anniversary with Tim Yeung and it WAS pretty damn good but yeah, unfortunately MA is just a shadow of what they ONCE were today 🥱😔...
Such a good band and big inspiration on modern Death Metal, Tech Death Metal, Grindcore, etc. I first started listening to Morbid when Covenant came out. My favorite album by Morbid and to me was there most technical was “Formulas Fatal to the Flesh”. I’m a drummer and guitar player and that album to me was the most difficult to play. I’m a fan of all of Morbids albums though.
To answer a few questions about this documentary.... 1. The rest of the band did not want to be in it. Trey, Pete and Richard don't like talking on camera. 2. The time period to construct the documentary as well as the budget was REALLY limited. 3. The amount of footage from that time was limited since Morbid Angel had a STRICT no video policy back then. I hope this gives some insight for people that think that there is something lacking here. Keep in mind that we are talking about something that happened in 1991. Had it not been for the people that you see featured in the various interviews, there would have been nothing.
If the rest of the band was in this the history would include the beginning. Wich would then show all the classic songs Vincent had nothing to do with. Demos and bootlegs I have them all. Hail vhs.
Being from Florida and close to Tampa, to me and my friends back in the 90s Morbid Angel was our absolute favorite. Saw them as many times as we could and always had their albums on in the background wether skating, or just sitting around....those days were golden.
I gave Trey my favorite tape of Chopin Nocturnes before a gig in Seattle in the 90's..Shocked he emphatically didn't know who Chopin was. But the best of it was i got his so fking stoned that i could tell when they went on he was high as fk. ILamo. However the show was fking killer. But i want that tape back.
I met Carl and Dallas of Nile in Cleveland, they held and posed with the King Tut Flying V I made, covered with 24kt gold leaf. Nice guys. They were holding a master class before the concert played.
I grew up on sabbath,priest ,maiden and then started listening to the american thrash overkill,metal church etc.there was a point where i was blown away by mercyful fate ,slayer and the darker stuff.when i started getting into death metal the first great album i bought was altars of madness.i listened to carcass ,they also were great.napalm death,and many others.morbid angel are my favorite death metal band,hands down.lou csanko.
1st time I heard Chapel of Ghouls was btwn bands at a show & bought the album the next day. Still have my vinyl copy with the inner sleeve signed by Vincent, Azagthoth, Brunelle & Sandoval.
+PerpetualBurn27 Yeah, this would have so much better if it had insights from Azagthoth. Vincent has been the mouthpiece of Morbid for nearly a decade now. Perhaps Trey will be doing interviews and such now that Vincent is out of the band. This record is masterful and could very well be the greatest album in the genre. I wanna hear what Trey has to say about the writing and recording of the record. I think this record proved that death metal had potential to be more than just an over the top form of extreme music.
i hung out w trey 2 times on the covenant tour.both times we smoked out.1rst time on my weed.2nd time on his weed.very very cool and wonderfully nice guy and i wish him the absolute best.he remembered that i was a guitarist as well.he remembered me and it made my whole day.
18:09 Rod is wearing a Power of Dreams t-shirt. An Irish band, it's the cover of their debut album, depicting a child in Dublin's poverty stricken Belvedere Place. I did NOT expect to see that in this documentary.
I was too young to catch them in the early 90's as I was only 6-7 years old, but saw them on the Masters of Chaos tour in April '06 at the House of Blues in Orlando. It was when David Vincent had rejoined the band. It was 3/4 of the Altars/Blessed lineup. Great fucking set! I'm glad I went.
Total deeper respect for the entire Band.in my opinion at the top of the death metal Mount Olympus it's that nightmarish free spirit quality that does it.that organic element. And the guys working for them were a perfect fit
My favorite parts are where they talk about road BS for half the documentary and not about the band or the music, and how neither Trey nor Pete are actually in this outside of old footage.
Thank you for the hours of listening pleasure and for inviting me on to your tourbus and signing my Metal Hammer centrefold @16:05, and ticket. You were just hours away from playing McGonagles, Dublin City, Monday 9th December 1991, and I was living in a doorway just a few doors down from the main entrance. Dunno if you noticed I was homeless, or if I looked shabby, but it wasn't mentioned. You made a homeless young teenager very happy that night!
Man no mention of Mike Browning I really loved his work with the band. Pete is definitely a better drummer but I think Mike definitely should be credited for creating the sound of Morbid Angel with his vocals and drumming. Most of Blessed are the Sick owes a lot to him.
Yeah, I kinda agree...Too bad Mike is kind of a "nutjob". We were cool on FB for some time as we share the same passion for old cars/restoration, but then some shit got said and blown outta proportion (on his end, as I was like WTH? 🤨😳) so......? Yeah. Dude's a bit "WHACK" to say the least. SMH.
That was a bit underwhelming. While not hugely bad but it seemed a bit wasted. No input from the rest of the band and seemed to have a bit of filler in it at times. Morbid Angel deserve a much better documentary this is the most disappointing documentary from Earache to date.
+Doom Domain It's The Dave Vincent Show!!!! Sheesh....didn't the other members have any input???...kinda telling considering the recent shake up in the unit.
not all DM is taking that stance .. try having some original thoughts once in a while instead of following what you read in a book. In America we have 2 choices and Hilary is anti-american and that is a fact. Most of us are conerned with the welfare of our country and not jumping on some bandwagon that is about fighting exactly what it represents and that is mind control. Fuck u and your anti-Semitic garbage . Intelligent and brave people no matter where they are from think for themselves and stand up or what is right not what they read in some obscure book. Trey Azagthoth who is the only original member of MA wouldnt agree with your nonsense. David Vincent the man who tried to ruin the band may be on board with you but that i even doubt. Quit telling people wha they should think or believe , u are just looking for something to be a part of you goof!lol
To me, BATS will always be their finest effort. It's depraved, passionate and totally reckless, and it has a tremendous atmosphere. It's like a dance with chaos.
my opinion, this voice is something really mind blowing a whole death metal history, oh my god, david vincent is mine favorite voice, blessed are the sick is for me masterpiece!
Crazy story about the Stockholm incident, when Morbid Angel cancelled that show, Mikael from Opeth was there that day and his friends asked him "if he saw David Isberg's band Opeth?" Mikael said "no" and his friends said "oh good they were fucking shit" lol also that was the infamous first Opeth show when they sucked lol. Watch Mikael's Wiki Fact or Fiction video, he explains it well.
Covenant is my favorite Morbid Angel album, but Blessed Are The Sick is my favorite Morbid Angel song. I once managed to sneak into a metal festival for free, and saw Pete Sandoval and David Vincent with I Am Morbid (and Emperor as well). They played the Covenant album almost entirely without the songs Angel of Disease, Sworn to the Black and Nar Mattaru. And yes they played Blessed Are The Sick. Also when Pete was checking his drums before the show, people started shouting ”Commando!” at him, and he kicked his bass drum in the beat of the chanting.
30:00 I understand perfectionism, and wanting to give the beloved fans the best show possible. But... Die-hard fans, who don’t get to see their favorite band every weekend, would have been ecstatic to see M.A. play on subpar equipment anyway! Especially stuff the fans scrambled to provide. I doubt they would have been too critical. I wouldn’t have been. I’ve never been at the level of Morbid Angel, both fan base or playing ability wise, but I know about showing up late to a gig, through adversity, and having to borrow the ENTIRE equipment line from another band - and it turned out to be wonderful anyway! Even discovered new shit that I liked and eventually used. Incredible band. Cool doc. Poor move canceling gig. Maybe I’m wrong, but the ONLY justification - in my sorta humble opinion - for canceling a show is that you are literally PHYSICALLY not able to be there in your physical life forms.
I've been a fan of morbid angel since 1989 dude trust me my first show seeing morbid was this past April 2023 👍😎 yes it took a long time to see them I met Trey got my CDs signed
Blessed Are The Sick is the pinnacle where the death metal could be achieving as an artistic manifestation in music.Everything is perfectly shrewdly work in to create such a visual and emotional impact on people.This is undeaniable a precious artistic treasure made by some talent musicians in their higher period of creativity and inspiration.
been listening to blessed since it came out and from 90 till now I will go to Morbid whenever they are playing, by far my favorite band and they have always been great guys to meet at their shows
Спасибо Тому и Джиму Моррису за их труд по созданию охуенного звука для сотен !!! тяжелых групп !!! спасибо Морбидам,Бруталити,Найлу,Малеволентам и кучам других талантливейших групп дэта,блэка,грайнда,дума ;-))
People dis David Vincent but the fact is he was to Morbid Angel what David Lee Roth was to Van Halen: they wouldn't be the legends they are without those crazy and charismatic frontmen.
My buddy Will Livie got me into Morbid Angel. I wasn't really into metal at all back then, so we would argue about music to listen to. There were some crossover thrash bands we both liked. One night he puts on Morbid Angel and says "I bet this will shut you up" He was right. I'd never heard double kicks playing a different time signature than what the rest of the band was doing. Giving the songs an uncanny feeling of being slow and fast at the same time. Will is passed now. But I always picture him with that baseball hat with Morbid Angel drawn on the bill in Sharpie.
They love to say "Tampa, Florida". But I actually lived a 5 minute walk from Morrisound Studio in the 90s and it was located in Temple Terrace, FL right next door to a Masonic Lodge and a McDonalds. The area at the time was as suburban as one of the alternate realities that Rick and Morty takes place in, The Simpsons if you prefer your animated satire cask-aged. However, Florida has no zoning laws based in reality so there was also a drive-through liquor store called "Beverage Castle" across the street from Morrisound. This area became a straight-up warzone starting in 2007 right when things began going crazy economically. I wouldn't go there today but a lot of musical magic happened in that once little unassuming place and Morbid Angel was a HUGE part of that (I was 13 during Domination). I'm also proud to say that I spent some time in a studio owned by David Vincent and his then wife many years later which was in ACTUAL Tampa, Florida with a band called Retard-O-Bot. Good times. Incredible studio too. Thank you for this documentary!
@@jamescon55 Yep! It was owned by him and Jen! It was a really nice facility, kinda big. I remember liking how they converted one of the break rooms into a private dance room complete with a pole in the center and a circular couch around it. Had a Super Nintendo in the lobby too. Control Room was amazing. I had a lot of fun.
@@visionop8 That's cool man! I also enjoyed hearing "your" history of Morrisound and the town "outside Tampa" 😏 My drum buddy (John Longstreth) did the Morrisound thing (drum tracks) when he was in Angel Corpse Exterminate in around late summer 98 while MORBID did/was finishing up "Formulas" along with Cannibal Corpse doing Gallery of Suicide. Prolly REALLY close to your experience with Dave n Jen, as Dave was with the Genitortures then somewhat I think. I just remember REALLY missing HIS voice on Formulas and NOT being a big Tucker fan (at ALL). But yeah, through the years and NOW? I have MUCH respect for Steve Tucker, but yeah.... AIN'T NO ONE like EVIL Dave himself! Lol...Hails n HORNS from Kansas! WHERE Angel Corpse AND Origin originally come from too. Good ol daze indeed...😏🔥🤘
@@jamescon55 Wow your friend is a seriously badass drummer! Rock on man!! I'm the same! At first I was like :I dunno about this Tucker guy" but now I think he's great for the band. That scene has such a deep and interesting history and I hope it gets it's props. It was almost like Dethklok almost happened. That time that the most extreme metal almost took over the world.
They were in the experimental phase (production-wise) when Altars was recorded. It was an experiment, as there were virtually no engineers who knew how to mix this ever progressing complexity of this extreme music genre. I thought they all did well, under the circumstances. Yes. Altars was full of static, but the righteous amount of reverb makes of for it.
Jake plays I like it a lot! I remember when it came out I thought it was strange hearing vocal effects on Where the Slime Live. Now, it’s no big deal when a band does experimental stuff(unless it totally sucks).
For those who ask....the final chant of the people is in Argentina , buenos Aires...it says....ole ole ole , ole ole ole ola , cada día te quiero más...ohh morbid angel...es un sentimiento, no puedo parar..!!..which means...every day i love You more..ohh morbid angel it's a huge sentiment that i cannot stop !!... That chant usually sings the people to their favorite soccer team as a demonstration of eternal love.. In this case...to morbid angel and everything they mean to us...the argentinian metal people...!
They were without a doubt a game changer. When we were all infatuated with Slayer and then heard Altars of Madness for the first time, it was like discovering Cable tv for the first time.
Has anyone ever noticed that every studio and live album is released alphabetically? 1989 - Altars of Madness 1991 - Blessed are the Sick 1993 - Covenant 1995 - Domination 1996 - Entangled in Chaos 1998 - Formulas Fatal to the Flesh 2000 - Gateways to Annihilation 2003 - Heretic 2011 - Illud Divinum Insanus 2015 - Juvenilia 2017 - Kingdoms Disdained
Besides some of the biggest questions on this plane of existence, such as The Hard Problem of Consciousness, the Vacuum Catastrophe, or how is the Higgs Boson responsible for mass if everything around us is 99.9999999999999% empty space, I've often wondered, whose baby is heard crying in the Intro to *Blessed Are The Sick*? Anyone connected with the band?
Been listening to Morbid Angel since I was 13 years old (1988-89) Altars of Madness I had the tape lol and I fucking wore it out. Bought another. And another 🤓👍 I fucking love it still at 46 😈
Through Morbid Angel's music, I met and established a fantastic friendship with a True Demon Devil Brother half-way around the world. HAIL Blessed Are The Sick and Morbid Angel, ETERNAL PRAISES and GRATITUDE !!!
I met Vincent at a record store in Nottingham for the first grindcrusher tour and there was hardly nobody there. He hung out with us and gave us some merch and got us into the gig at Rock City that night. 2 years later they were back for the blessed tour and fans were cueing down the street at the same store. When I walked in he recognised me instantly, which annoyed alot of ppl there 😂. And again he got me into the show that night and took Amazing care of me. A Real grounded and Humble guy and a memory I will Always cherish. 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
Badass!
Nice story. Too bad you’re lying you pos
Cool story broh
i was there too mate. rockaboom records. i met carcass and dave and trey but i was too young to get into rock city that night. great time to be alive.👊
I think Dave is the ultimate greatest singer bassist with most sick clear godlike voices and way of grunting ever recorded.my altime favo.
I met David when l was playing bass for Atheist to support the Unquestionably Tour… Tony and I were hanging out in Miami.He approached us and introduced himself.He was super cool!
He congratulated me for getting the Atheist gig and at the time also Cynic.Tony had joined Pestilence.
David is an intellectual and quite respectful.
Morbid Angel was the gateway band for the metal in Tampa Bay…
Cheers.
Darren
Trey is a death metal Jedi master. One of the original players that taught us a new way to do things back in the day. Other bands may play faster or more technical nowadays but it’s really just a permutation of what these guys started. Trey is one of our last true teachers left, I look forward to anything his warped mind puts forth. This is just one of many brilliant albums…
Well said bud
Very well said. The dude can do shit with a guitar I have never heard ANYONE else even try to do, not even Eddie Van Halen....
Listen to the solos on Rebel Lands....I swear to god it's like you're listening to some weird occult hymns from Mesopotamia....
And the 27 solos on Angel of Disease? Genius!!!!
They say the bluesman Robert Johnson made a pact with the Devil to be able to play the way he did - I'd believe it much more of Trey haha!
Morbid Angel from 1989-1993 were fucking untouchable. They were a lot more than death metal.
I would say 1989-1995 Domination is a great album
@@Angelcorpse6668 I love Formulas too actually, idk why I said 93, probably cause Covenant stands in perfect balance between both eras
@@elvissorna8861 yes I do too but 1998 is late there were other death metal bands that also made good albums better than Formulas I’m talking about the untouchable era that you mentioned pal
@@Angelcorpse6668 what are some of those albums
@@PinkFloydrulez better than formulas ?
the first 3 Morbid Angel albums are absolutely untouchable. the atmosphere they created on those projects is so dark and unique. they really did separate themselves from the rest of the death metal bands of this era. Morbid Angel, Death, and Cannibal Corpse are the holy trinity of old school death metal 🤘🏼
Formulas Fatal to the Flesh is very underrated, and Gateways is heavy as fuck still to this day.
@@devilxking2 agree that those 2 are amazing. but they still don’t beat out the first 3 in my opinion. I’m not really a fan of the rest of their catalogue outside of those 5 - Domination is good not great, and their last 3 just don’t do anything for me whatsoever.
First two. Covenant is alright, but they were pivoting to a much less extreme sound as they were on a major label
@@devilxking2 Gateways i even call my favorite record
Gateways was their most polished and best pound for pound album.
In my opinion, Nile, Morbid Angel, Immolation, Incantation, Autopsy and Krisiun are the greatest death metal bands in the whole world. Every album they release, is a crushing piece of music.
If you didn't have a Morbid Angle logo painted on your pencil case in white out at school you never truly lived.
I had Morbid Angel written in red and blue texta.my friend was a bad speller like you,he had mobid angle
I had my blue binder covered in logos i drew with a thick black Sharpie.
Used to had on notesbook
A 90° Morbid Angle
My buddy in high school used to always call them "Morbid Angels", yup, multiple angels!
A fan since the conception. Now I’m in my 60s and their music are still essential.
Yes sir
Me too at 60 😂
Rest in peace Richard Brunelle.... You are certainly now with the ancient ones
I used to loop Blessed start to finish while working on cars with my close friends. Pinstriping, welding patch panels, dropping/removing in engines and transmissions, doing full paint jobs, man the memories. Blessed always takes me back to fun times. i loved that album right when I heard it. Best MA album ever, right in the feels.
I wish ever metal documentary was as good as the cannibal corpse one
Cannibal Corpse's documentaries were filmed mostly by the band(Alex Webster) which allowed a very personal look into the band. But, yes I totally agree...they should all be as good as theirs. They even have a more personal feel than most of Metallica's documentaries.
@@craigpaulson3503 That's right, most people didn't have a home video camera in the early 90s, and their extensive filming of their own memories when they were so young and hungry gave their documentary the material to make it so great.
@@CatCaregiver-ie1ej huh, i guess that's what made me attached to the band...the documentary was so great that i kept rewatching some parts of it
Nick Davis yo I literally finished it yesterday and wanted to dive headfirst into other metal docs. This one is soooo meh
@@xxAM93xx found anything decent?
Blessed Are The Sick, renaissance masterpiece!
Ageed. I remember this was an exciting time for me as I was diving into the world of death metal and this album just blew me away frm beginning to end. It was different ,just like the guys from Nile say, its was so artistic even progressive. It was quite different than ,say, Deicide(whom I adored and still do, their old stuff) and today I recognize how vastly better MA was than Deicide at the time.
I would get high and repeatedly listen to this on autoreverse on my Aiwa walkman.
Funny because most seem to always praise Covenant. Perhaps because it was very popular but I always like Blessed.
Really, MA are pretty amazing for putting out so many consecutively really good albums with few shit songs.
I am older now and really am digging Insomnium;s new Winter's Gate and pretty much all their stuff. Brilliant but very different.
Absolutely!!! A BEAST of an album...a classic that never gets old
Awesome. Classic album, classic band, classic period. Screw the haters. Long Live Morbid Angel.
Bought this album on cassette back in 1991 - scared the bejesus out of all of my friends playing it on a Walkman, they'd ask me: "what is that white noise?".....this magnificent, symphonic, elevated, artful, innovative, just plain beautiful album changed my life. There are solos by Trey on BATS, for example, that just defy belief, David kicks ass, Pete is incredible, and Richard definitely adds a lot...so glad I got to experience this heyday of Death Metal first time 'round....
me too I'm so glad to have experienced it from the beginning. it was so dark and new I was hooked.🤘💀🖤
Me too 🤘🏼
Yep it was a good time to be a young headbanger I was fortunate enough to see them and Deicide live while they were in thieir prime and let me say being on acid in a Deicide mosh pit is probably one of the most primal and alive experiences of my life I feel sorry for young people today they missed out
Saw Morbid Angel at The Masquerade in Atlanta . Crowbar opened for them on the Covenant tour in 1993. One of the best shows I've ever been to.
absolute best death metal band from this era. saw them at the showcase in corona in early 90's. definitely inspired me to continue to play guitar. trey and richard were way ahead of their time.
shredmonster76 Nobody plays and writes guitar like Trey. I still have my original Ibanez Universe I bought because I wanted to play and sound like MA.
the Showcase in Corona was definitely the shit obituary malevolent creation Cannibal Corpse suffocation those are the best shows at that little hole in the wall
Blessed are the Sick tour, Sydney, Enmore Theatre... BEST CONCERT IVE EVER SEEN
From the first time I heard Morbid Angel I just love their musik I was around 15 y.o. now I´m 41 and they are FOR ME still Masters od Death Metal ! Morbid Angel rules ! Forever Morbid !
"Blessed are the Sick" is the first metal album I heard in 1993 at at 13 years old. The rest is history.
Fun fact: David Vincent wrote and recorded all of MA's parts by himself. He is so monumentally talented that he is able to project himself physically so that it appears to the outside observer as if he is 4 different people. Sandoval and Azagthoth never really existed. Nor did any of the other guitarists.
In fact, you don't even exist. You are merely the external manifestation of David Vincent. There is no reality. Only Vincent.
David Vincent is the Chuck Testa of metal.
lmao;thinking the same thing
(from a crackhead)
You said what i would have to say.
She probably wrote their last album.
John Morgan I totally agree Vincent is absolutely amazing.. that being said Tucker on formulas and the new one is all I'll except... gateways I guess they took roofies. Lol and illuid had some great songs most disagree and I understand.maybe Dave v was trying to get them out there more like when they was signed with giant records
Metal artists always struck me as pretty smart. Second to prog rockers, maybe. Listen to guys from Cannibal Corpse, Obituary, Chuck. Smart dudes.
Exactly! Very well said.
@@bultronlagore2095 I just thumbs-upped my own comment a year later! Too much headbanging........
@@johnglennmercury7 hahaha hell ya. It’s true though.
Man that road where Cliff Burton died is freaking CURSED!!!
I would say so!
I was at both of the shows at The Vatican (later named The Abyss) in Houston. I remember during the second show David started talking about the stabbing at the first show and the guy that got stabbed was being held up by his buddies and saying "that was me". David told him to get down before he gets stabbed again. 😆😆😆
what a killer moment lmao
Blessed are the Sick is undeniably the best death metal album hands down. This album still has the impact on me as it did the very first time I heard it back in 91'. And how they matched the artwork with the music...everything...absolute perfection.
Death metal and classical music are the hardest pieces of music to play from a technical standpoint. So glad I found this documentary.
I'd argue that jazz is up there too
@@thecuddlyviking6940 +1
I remember watching them in a club in 1992 I'm so lucky to have seen them live at that time
The Altars of Madness is not just an album, it is a benchmark standard that separated try hard lousy attempts from guys who could really master the art form. They set the standard for death hands down.
When I hear Tom Morris, in the beginning of the vide,o explaining how they recorded the drums, it makes me feel even more respect for Pete Sandoval.
As great as his drumming is in *Morbid Angel* , *World Downfall* is ultimately where it's at.
@@Paddyllfixit yeah! he's (P.Sandoval) master-blaster in Terrorizer
@@Paddyllfixit IF it's just single foot grinding that you are into (it's GREAT!) But yeah, there's really NO comparison (drumming wise) between TERRORIZER and especially the BLESSED drumming....(Other than single foot blasts, NUTTIN similar other than the MAN playing it 😏🤘)
There's no Morbid Angel without Pete Sandoval.
@@Mitchery NO listenable MA since parts from Gateways IMO. Most material since just ain't cutting it. I DO agree with your statement though I saw the Covenant 20 year anniversary with Tim Yeung and it WAS pretty damn good but yeah, unfortunately MA is just a shadow of what they ONCE were today 🥱😔...
blessed are the sick is the best..reminds me of childhood
what a great childhood you had there
@Flat Earth Florida Same but I like that it was kind of 'quiet' and it was so calming to listen to
Such a good band and big inspiration on modern Death Metal, Tech Death Metal, Grindcore, etc. I first started listening to Morbid when Covenant came out. My favorite album by Morbid and to me was there most technical was “Formulas Fatal to the Flesh”. I’m a drummer and guitar player and that album to me was the most difficult to play. I’m a fan of all of Morbids albums though.
Oh, now you upload this, right after I bought the DVD...
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Trey Azagthoth. Best name ever.
George Emmanuel liked it, obviously. That's why he changed it to that, I assume....😏
@@jamescon55 #truth
To answer a few questions about this documentary....
1. The rest of the band did not want to be in it. Trey, Pete and Richard don't like talking on camera.
2. The time period to construct the documentary as well as the budget was REALLY limited.
3. The amount of footage from that time was limited since Morbid Angel had a STRICT no video policy back then.
I hope this gives some insight for people that think that there is something lacking here. Keep in mind that we are talking about something that happened in 1991. Had it not been for the people that you see featured in the various interviews, there would have been nothing.
If the rest of the band was in this the history would include the beginning. Wich would then show all the classic songs Vincent had nothing to do with. Demos and bootlegs I have them all. Hail vhs.
Thanks for the info! BTW, I wish we had a COVENANT Documentary too.
Too bad on the no video policy.
You did great my dude I appreciate even the limited info was interesting as hell
I don't care what anyone said, I liked this documentary.
Being from Florida and close to Tampa, to me and my friends back in the 90s Morbid Angel was our absolute favorite. Saw them as many times as we could and always had their albums on in the background wether skating, or just sitting around....those days were golden.
I gave Trey my favorite tape of Chopin Nocturnes before a gig in Seattle in the 90's..Shocked he emphatically didn't know who Chopin was. But the best of it was i got his so fking stoned that i could tell when they went on he was high as fk. ILamo. However the show was fking killer. But i want that tape back.
I met Carl and Dallas of Nile in Cleveland, they held and posed with the King Tut Flying V I made, covered with 24kt gold leaf. Nice guys. They were holding a master class before the concert played.
I just started listening to morbid angel the other day. Saw a short of where the slime live and that riff hooked me.
welcome to the fold :)
I grew up on sabbath,priest ,maiden and then started listening to the american thrash overkill,metal church etc.there was a point where i was blown away by mercyful fate ,slayer and the darker stuff.when i started getting into death metal the first great album i bought was altars of madness.i listened to carcass ,they also were great.napalm death,and many others.morbid angel are my favorite death metal band,hands down.lou csanko.
Damn...I miss the 90`s
bassturbator666 I just miss being a teenager like I was in the 90s. The music was just so awesome, and not just Metal. :)
R. Brandon Perez
Yeah...best years of my life.What an awesome decade that was.
bassturbator666 so do i
no patient. nooo. okay. yes.
1st time I heard Chapel of Ghouls was btwn bands at a show & bought the album the next day. Still have my vinyl copy with the inner sleeve signed by Vincent, Azagthoth, Brunelle & Sandoval.
Cool to see Nile in this! It's too bad Azagthoth is such an anti-social. Lol. Him and James Murphy are my favorite DM guitar players!
+PerpetualBurn27 Yeah, this would have so much better if it had insights from Azagthoth. Vincent has been the mouthpiece of Morbid for nearly a decade now. Perhaps Trey will be doing interviews and such now that Vincent is out of the band. This record is masterful and could very well be the greatest album in the genre. I wanna hear what Trey has to say about the writing and recording of the record. I think this record proved that death metal had potential to be more than just an over the top form of extreme music.
+PerpetualBurn27 That's weird; Trey used to come out and shake hands and bullshit after shows..........cool guy, met him twice.
PerpetualBurn27 trey antisocial? haha, he wouldn't stop talking when I met him.
yea trey is so unconventional and James just rip with aggressive precision
i hung out w trey 2 times on the covenant tour.both times we smoked out.1rst time on my weed.2nd time on his weed.very very cool and wonderfully nice guy and i wish him the absolute best.he remembered that i was a guitarist as well.he remembered me and it made my whole day.
Altars of Madness is my bible.
Mine is Gateways To Annihilation
@@adamtorok6048 When that album came out back then, i remember going seeing them in Montreal 2001. Best damn show ever.
Mine is Formulas Fatal To the Flesh.
Jerry Lee Hatfield Mine is Covenant.
Satanism is a low energy trapping people
18:09
Rod is wearing a Power of Dreams t-shirt. An Irish band, it's the cover of their debut album, depicting a child in Dublin's poverty stricken Belvedere Place.
I did NOT expect to see that in this documentary.
Early Morbid Angel is some of the best death metal ever. Altars is my favorite, but Blessed is a close second.
I was too young to catch them in the early 90's as I was only 6-7 years old, but saw them on the Masters of Chaos tour in April '06 at the House of Blues in Orlando. It was when David Vincent had rejoined the band. It was 3/4 of the Altars/Blessed lineup. Great fucking set! I'm glad I went.
¡PETE "COMANDO" SANDOVAL!
Total deeper respect for the entire Band.in my opinion at the top of the death metal Mount Olympus it's that nightmarish free spirit quality that does it.that organic element. And the guys working for them were a perfect fit
Why the hell hasn't this video gotten a lot of views?! This is a great vid!
RuinsOfMetal look when it's posted....
RuinsOfMetal It is less than a month since posted and it isn't pop fluff music. Although it was released in July 2009, so it isn't exactly new. :)
Great thigs usually aren't popular.
Yeah.
Real life IS that depressing.
Half of my deranged high school life was all because of Altars Of Madness.
My favorite parts are where they talk about road BS for half the documentary and not about the band or the music, and how neither Trey nor Pete are actually in this outside of old footage.
that was really cool! missed an hour of sleep to watch this, well worth it!
+OnePlickyDood thank you my friend...\m/ \m/
Thank you for the hours of listening pleasure and for inviting me on to your tourbus and signing my Metal Hammer centrefold @16:05, and ticket. You were just hours away from playing McGonagles, Dublin City, Monday 9th December 1991, and I was living in a doorway just a few doors down from the main entrance. Dunno if you noticed I was homeless, or if I looked shabby, but it wasn't mentioned. You made a homeless young teenager very happy that night!
Metal forever,your friend Trey.....\\m//
Cheers Trey. Mr.Morbid Angel!
Great tour, I was at Joe's Garage in FT. Worth. Death Metal was killing it back then so many good bands.
This is rad. I bought a reissue of Blessed this week and this suddenly shows up on my UA-cam Feed!!!
Vincent chillin like a villain with sum candles n shit , he needs a pet black cat on his lap
It’s on his chin.
Man no mention of Mike Browning I really loved his work with the band.
Pete is definitely a better drummer but I think Mike definitely should be credited for creating the sound
of Morbid Angel with his vocals and drumming. Most of Blessed are the Sick owes a lot to him.
Yeah, I kinda agree...Too bad Mike is kind of a "nutjob". We were cool on FB for some time as we share the same passion for old cars/restoration, but then some shit got said and blown outta proportion (on his end, as I was like WTH? 🤨😳) so......? Yeah. Dude's a bit "WHACK" to say the least. SMH.
@@jamescon55 lol same. He started to make reference to QAnon type stuff way back in 2012-2013. He’s a cool dude, but a little wacky
That was a bit underwhelming. While not hugely bad but it seemed a bit wasted. No input from the rest of the band and seemed to have a bit of filler in it at times. Morbid Angel deserve a much better documentary this is the most disappointing documentary from Earache to date.
+Doom Domain I agree...
+Doom Domain It's The Dave Vincent Show!!!! Sheesh....didn't the other members have any input???...kinda telling considering the recent shake up in the unit.
+Seb Montez Keep on supporting Rock n Roll man! lml
***** I'd think we did, lol.
not all DM is taking that stance .. try having some original thoughts once in a while instead of following what you read in a book. In America we have 2 choices and Hilary is anti-american and that is a fact. Most of us are conerned with the welfare of our country and not jumping on some bandwagon that is about fighting exactly what it represents and that is mind control. Fuck u and your anti-Semitic garbage .
Intelligent and brave people no matter where they are from think for themselves and stand up or what is right not what they read in some obscure book. Trey Azagthoth who is the only original member of MA wouldnt agree with your nonsense. David Vincent the man who tried to ruin the band may be on board with you but that i even doubt.
Quit telling people wha they should think or believe , u are just looking for something to be a part of you goof!lol
To me, BATS will always be their finest effort. It's depraved, passionate and totally reckless, and it has a tremendous atmosphere. It's like a dance with chaos.
They have so many it's hard for me to choose..
my opinion, this voice is something really mind blowing a whole death metal history, oh my god, david vincent is mine favorite voice, blessed are the sick is for me masterpiece!
No interviews with Trey or Pete?
Crazy story about the Stockholm incident, when Morbid Angel cancelled that show, Mikael from Opeth was there that day and his friends asked him "if he saw David Isberg's band Opeth?" Mikael said "no" and his friends said "oh good they were fucking shit" lol also that was the infamous first Opeth show when they sucked lol. Watch Mikael's Wiki Fact or Fiction video, he explains it well.
Covenant is my favorite Morbid Angel album, but Blessed Are The Sick is my favorite Morbid Angel song. I once managed to sneak into a metal festival for free, and saw Pete Sandoval and David Vincent with I Am Morbid (and Emperor as well). They played the Covenant album almost entirely without the songs Angel of Disease, Sworn to the Black and Nar Mattaru. And yes they played Blessed Are The Sick. Also when Pete was checking his drums before the show, people started shouting ”Commando!” at him, and he kicked his bass drum in the beat of the chanting.
30:00 I understand perfectionism, and wanting to give the beloved fans the best show possible. But...
Die-hard fans, who don’t get to see their favorite band every weekend, would have been ecstatic to see M.A. play on subpar equipment anyway! Especially stuff the fans scrambled to provide. I doubt they would have been too critical. I wouldn’t have been.
I’ve never been at the level of Morbid Angel, both fan base or playing ability wise, but I know about showing up late to a gig, through adversity, and having to borrow the ENTIRE equipment line from another band - and it turned out to be wonderful anyway! Even discovered new shit that I liked and eventually used.
Incredible band. Cool doc. Poor move canceling gig. Maybe I’m wrong, but the ONLY justification - in my sorta humble opinion - for canceling a show is that you are literally PHYSICALLY not able to be there in your physical life forms.
There is something called class. If they don't feel the sound is not up their class/level, it's better not to play, imo.
David is such a good dude. Super intelligent, nice, and appreciative of his fans.
I am a massive Morbid Angel fan, just wish I was born in 1970 not 2000 haha. Would have been able to see them all in their prime.
I've been a fan of morbid angel since 1989 dude trust me my first show seeing morbid was this past April 2023 👍😎 yes it took a long time to see them I met Trey got my CDs signed
Better late than never
@ricknova1973 Damn bro that's great, it would have been awesome living through it when it was new.
Blessed Are The Sick is the pinnacle where the death metal could be achieving as an artistic manifestation in music.Everything is perfectly shrewdly work in to create such a visual and emotional impact on people.This is undeaniable a precious artistic treasure made by some talent musicians in their higher period of creativity and inspiration.
been listening to blessed since it came out and from 90 till now I will go to Morbid whenever they are playing, by far my favorite band and they have always been great guys to meet at their shows
cool shot of the Trocadero in Philly. That is where I first saw Morbid Angel in early 94.
Me too
It's funny that people complain about this documentary...
If you adore abnormal music, why do you expect a normal documentary?
I suppose nothing was trending for these Debbie Downer Drama junkies to bash just as a 💉 when u need a fix you'll get it somewhere
Спасибо Тому и Джиму Моррису за их труд по созданию охуенного звука для сотен !!! тяжелых групп !!! спасибо Морбидам,Бруталити,Найлу,Малеволентам и кучам других талантливейших групп дэта,блэка,грайнда,дума ;-))
this was cool but somebody please do a documentary worthy of this legendary inspirational band
People dis David Vincent but the fact is he was to Morbid Angel what David Lee Roth was to Van Halen: they wouldn't be the legends they are without those crazy and charismatic frontmen.
I liked Steve Tucker better, just like how I actually liked Hagar better than Roth.
An electro country dark david lee roth jsjaja
Better go check them old demos and shows Vincent is nowhere in sight. Btw thats where all the classic songs come from.
My buddy Will Livie got me into Morbid Angel.
I wasn't really into metal at all back then, so we would argue about music to listen to.
There were some crossover thrash bands we both liked.
One night he puts on Morbid Angel and says "I bet this will shut you up"
He was right. I'd never heard double kicks playing a different time signature than what the rest of the band was doing.
Giving the songs an uncanny feeling of being slow and fast at the same time.
Will is passed now. But I always picture him with that baseball hat with Morbid Angel drawn on the bill in Sharpie.
Covenant is definitely top 10 all time for death metal albums.
They love to say "Tampa, Florida". But I actually lived a 5 minute walk from Morrisound Studio in the 90s and it was located in Temple Terrace, FL right next door to a Masonic Lodge and a McDonalds. The area at the time was as suburban as one of the alternate realities that Rick and Morty takes place in, The Simpsons if you prefer your animated satire cask-aged. However, Florida has no zoning laws based in reality so there was also a drive-through liquor store called "Beverage Castle" across the street from Morrisound. This area became a straight-up warzone starting in 2007 right when things began going crazy economically. I wouldn't go there today but a lot of musical magic happened in that once little unassuming place and Morbid Angel was a HUGE part of that (I was 13 during Domination). I'm also proud to say that I spent some time in a studio owned by David Vincent and his then wife many years later which was in ACTUAL Tampa, Florida with a band called Retard-O-Bot. Good times. Incredible studio too. Thank you for this documentary!
tldr
You mean ex-wife Genitortures Jen? 🤔 Gawd! Dave IS one strange individual Lol. Still one of the best vocalist ever though! 👍
@@jamescon55 Yep! It was owned by him and Jen! It was a really nice facility, kinda big. I remember liking how they converted one of the break rooms into a private dance room complete with a pole in the center and a circular couch around it. Had a Super Nintendo in the lobby too. Control Room was amazing. I had a lot of fun.
@@visionop8 That's cool man! I also enjoyed hearing "your" history of Morrisound and the town "outside Tampa" 😏 My drum buddy (John Longstreth) did the Morrisound thing (drum tracks) when he was in Angel Corpse Exterminate in around late summer 98 while MORBID did/was finishing up "Formulas" along with Cannibal Corpse doing Gallery of Suicide. Prolly REALLY close to your experience with Dave n Jen, as Dave was with the Genitortures then somewhat I think. I just remember REALLY missing HIS voice on Formulas and NOT being a big Tucker fan (at ALL). But yeah, through the years and NOW? I have MUCH respect for Steve Tucker, but yeah.... AIN'T NO ONE like EVIL Dave himself! Lol...Hails n HORNS from Kansas! WHERE Angel Corpse AND Origin originally come from too. Good ol daze indeed...😏🔥🤘
@@jamescon55 Wow your friend is a seriously badass drummer! Rock on man!! I'm the same! At first I was like :I dunno about this Tucker guy" but now I think he's great for the band. That scene has such a deep and interesting history and I hope it gets it's props. It was almost like Dethklok almost happened. That time that the most extreme metal almost took over the world.
Straight from the soul!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hail.....The Heart And Soul Of Dark Music
Altars is the best album they've ever done, by a long shot!
not exactly, blessed are the sick
Am I the only one who likes domination?
Not at all. Domination is excellent! I really hope they consider bringing Rutan back as a second guitarist!
They were in the experimental phase (production-wise) when Altars was recorded. It was an experiment, as there were virtually no engineers who knew how to mix this ever progressing complexity of this extreme music genre. I thought they all did well, under the circumstances. Yes. Altars was full of static, but the righteous amount of reverb makes of for it.
Jake plays I like it a lot! I remember when it came out I thought it was strange hearing vocal effects on Where the Slime Live. Now, it’s no big deal when a band does experimental stuff(unless it totally sucks).
54:30 - Tim, drumming away on the latest album...
For those who ask....the final chant of the people is in Argentina , buenos Aires...it says....ole ole ole , ole ole ole ola , cada día te quiero más...ohh morbid angel...es un sentimiento, no puedo parar..!!..which means...every day i love You more..ohh morbid angel it's a huge sentiment that i cannot stop !!...
That chant usually sings the people to their favorite soccer team as a demonstration of eternal love..
In this case...to morbid angel and everything they mean to us...the argentinian metal people...!
Aww. That's nice. It's great to see passion.
They were without a doubt a game changer. When we were all infatuated with Slayer and then heard Altars of Madness for the first time, it was like discovering Cable tv for the first time.
When Morbid Angel came to Puerto Rico David Vincent was very angry because there was no much fans in the club.
Morbid Angel carried me through high school
Trey is a member of the Temple Of Set, the opposite of David Vincent
Has anyone ever noticed that every studio and live album is released alphabetically?
1989 - Altars of Madness
1991 - Blessed are the Sick
1993 - Covenant
1995 - Domination
1996 - Entangled in Chaos
1998 - Formulas Fatal to the Flesh
2000 - Gateways to Annihilation
2003 - Heretic
2011 - Illud Divinum Insanus
2015 - Juvenilia
2017 - Kingdoms Disdained
Omg yeah
Yes, every person in the solar system already knows this.
What about " abominations of desolation " ?
thanks for the upload! this was very enjoyable, loved hearing some of those tour stories 🤣
Blessed are the sick, so i am blessed sick i got into this a masterpiece!
Besides some of the biggest questions on this plane of existence, such as The Hard Problem of Consciousness, the Vacuum Catastrophe, or how is the Higgs Boson responsible for mass if everything around us is 99.9999999999999% empty space, I've often wondered, whose baby is heard crying in the Intro to *Blessed Are The Sick*? Anyone connected with the band?
I saw these guys back in 1991 at the Rockfabrik in Ludwigsburg Germany. They toured with Sadus and Unleashed. Morbid Angel was the headliner.
Been listening to Morbid Angel since I was 13 years old (1988-89) Altars of Madness I had the tape lol and I fucking wore it out. Bought another. And another 🤓👍 I fucking love it still at 46 😈
My #1 song of MA is Invocation of the Continuual One.
Blessed is a top 5 of brutal deathmetal albums
My favourite band after Death
Where the slime live will always be one of the heaviest riffs of all time
I fucking love how they got the members of Nile got to be interviewed
Morbid Angel and Deicide best Death MEtal ever
Nothing will ever replace authentic Morris town recordings
Sun Glasses and candles
Tom Dransfield - and I feel like a douche wearing them inside a store for a few minutes. Lmao 🕯 😎🕯
I like wearing my sunglasses at night.
Through Morbid Angel's music, I met and established a fantastic friendship with a True Demon Devil Brother half-way around the world. HAIL Blessed Are The Sick and Morbid Angel, ETERNAL PRAISES and GRATITUDE !!!
17:47 I didn't know Anthony Scaramucci was Trey's guitar tech on the Blessed tour?
THE MOOCH!
😂
I had no idea that Blessed is considered a classic. I liked it when it came out but it didn't blow my socks off the way Altars did.
You must have hearing damage or something
I love how when they talk about the fans taking care of the protesters for them they show the trocadero in Philly 💪💪💪
Seen and worked some good shows at the troc...
Woah was that a bear?
Beavis n butthead!!!
havent watched all of it but this explains from what ive seen the drum sound