MORBID ANGEL — Illud Divinum Insanus (review)

MORBID ANGEL — Illud Divinum Insanus album cover Album · 2011 · Death Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
2/5 ·
The Block
Every person who calls themselves a metal fan knows, or at least should know, Morbid Angel. When I heard the death metal masters were releasing a new album this year I was ecstatic. And to say this release landed with a thud would be an understatement. This is the same band that release “Covenant” and “Altars of Madness”, and somehow they’ve also released an album like “Illud Divinum Insanus”. This is their 8th studio release, and by far the worst. There isn’t much that I can say now that already hasn’t been said in countless other reviews, but there is still something I would like to say.

No, I do not like this album at all, but I can appreciate where Morbid Angel is going with this album. This new, industrial type metal that has become prevalent on this album isn’t that good at all, and I don’t like it at all, but if Morbid Angel can perfect this approach to their music I can see future releases being pretty good. I do wish that they’d go back to the raw, untamed death metal that made them famous back in the 90’s, but miracles don’t always happen.

Another thing that I would like to mention are the hilarious song titles. Of the many, I believe that “Too Extreme!” is definitely the worse. Besides being an almost techno metal song, it is also the worst song on the album in my mind. And really David Vincent, you had to add the exclamation point? Besides being very inconsistent, the album is kind of confusing. At first they have some industrial metal, than techno metal, and the rare appearance of actual death metal. Of the eleven tracks on this album only two, "Blades of Baal" and "Nevermore”, are actual, straight up death metal tracks.

As with all their releases the musicianship is very good, and professional, but it lacks the drive that they had on their earlier albums. The drumming by guest drummer Tim Yeung is very annoying at times, especially with the techno-like production on the album.

I waited a long time to review this album, for the simple reason that I was hoping it would get better with time, as some album do. And I was dead wrong. This long awaited 2011 release by Morbid Angel leaves me wanting more, much more of their great 90’s style death metal. Metallica did this with “St. Anger” and now so did Morbid Angel. Thank god we still have an Opeth and Dream Theater release coming out later this year.
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J-Man wrote:
more than 2 years ago
Good review! I'm not a fan of this one either...

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