Morbid Angel - Illud Divinum Insanus
Oh man, new Morbid Angel! It’s been eight long years since the band’s previous album, Heretic, and sixteen since Domination, the last one with now-returned bassist/singer David Vincent. While he was gone, Vincent was in his wife’s horrible circus sideshow band, Genitorturers, but the less said of that, the better. Illud Divinum Insanus opens with a dull, plodding two-and-a-half minute intro, which gives way to… wait, am I reading that right? The song is called “Too Extreme!”?!? Let me check the rest of the song titles… Son of a bitch! Are you fucking kidding me, Morbid Angel? What the fuck?!? This album mostly isn’t even Metal at all, but rather the kind of lame-ass Industrial that Gothic Lolitas might dance to if they were sufficiently high and bored. Okay, occasionally the drumming is fast, but I don’t even know if that’s a person (Tim Yeung) or a machine. And there are some moments in “Existo Vulgore,” “Blades for Baal,” and “Nevermore” that at least hint at what this band used to be, but they’re more of a tease than anything substantial. Even during the best (or least-worst) moments of this hour-long exercise in frustration and irritation, Vincent’s barely-growly vocals are vapid and spiritless, and in the most horrible moments, such as the essentially Butt Rock “I Am Morbid” and “Radikult,” laughable. I can only imagine that MA main-man Trey Azagthoth desperately needed money for new video games and/or patchouli-scented guitar picks, but it didn’t occur to him to start giving music lessons to the Tampa Metalcore kids, so he thought, Maybe I could make the shittiest record ever conceived, and it will sell anyway, thanks to the name Morbid Angel alone. If you don’t believe me about how terrible this album is, I don’t blame you: I don’t want to believe it either, and it’s torturing my ears even as I type. So, if you have to hear this for yourself, I understand. But don’t pay for it. Illud Divinum Insanus may go down as the biggest disappointment in Metal history.
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Manitou said:
This review by our prophetic editor is absolutely true! All I needed to hear was the the Nevermore single with one other song “Destructos vs the Earth” remixed by Combichrist to confirm their fall from grace (which began with Heretic) is complete.
Stormbreaker said:
Holy fuck this is bad news. But like looking at a car wreck, I still want to hear it…
L Swastikkko said:
Too bad they couldn’t get that guitar player from Nostradamus. Sounds like she could have helped out.
admin said:
I don’t think that she could have made it any worse.
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