MORTA
SKULD
'Through
The Eyes Of Death'
(Relapse
Records)
It
was kind of cool to see this show up in my mailbox. As soon as I read
the band name it brought up memories of the early 90s death metal
scene and me tape trading for Morta Skuld demos and shit. And
no, just in case you were wondering as I did, Morta Skuld have
not gotten back together (though I hear whispers of some reunion
gigs). This is a compilation type release of both of their 1990 demo
tapes combined on one disc. An interesting tidbit from the bio for
you is the demos were produced by Death’s manager Eric Grief
back in the day, he had recently finished working on the 'Spiritual
Healing' album. The vocals especially on the second demo even
remind me of Death a little bit. I am not sure how much work Relapse
did with this as far as possibly remixing and I am sure remastering
it. But the sound on here is absolutely fantastic, you can every bit
of everything, loud and clear and crushingly heavy. I think people
have to remember that these were demo tapes and were recorded in
1990. It was a time when death metal was such a new entity on the
scene and kind of still figuring out what it was as a genre to some
extent. So the music on here at times is not as intricate and a
little less technical than what we are used to with modern extreme
death metal bands. I mean in contrast Morta Skuld may even
sound a little more doomy and slower paced. But that is what a lot of
death metal sounded like back then and I was a huge fan of it. You
know what I am still am too, because I enjoyed the hell out of this
brutal death metal compilation. You even get a bonus Metal Church
cover song that was never released. Morta Skuld had their shit
going on as far as I am concerned. I think this is pretty cool
Relapse put this out, it shows how big of fans they still are of
death metal, as Morta Skuld was not even one of their bands
back in the day, as the band released most of their albums on
Peaceville Records. Check this out all old school death metal fans,
if you missed it the first time around you will not be disappointed!
(Dale
Roy)
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