{"id":3898,"date":"2011-06-07T00:00:54","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T00:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=3898"},"modified":"2013-06-01T14:03:48","modified_gmt":"2013-06-01T14:03:48","slug":"album-review-morbid-angel-illud-divinum-insanus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-morbid-angel-illud-divinum-insanus\/","title":{"rendered":"MORBID ANGEL – Illud Divinum Insanus (2011) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

MORBID ANGEL
Illud Divinum Insanus<\/strong><\/span>
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\nSeason Of Mist (2011)<\/span>
Rating: 7\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Reunited for live shows since 2004, David Vincent returns as the frontman \/ bassist for Morbid Angel, his first time in the post since May 1995\u2019s Domination<\/em> album and a welcome and unexpected treat for longtime fans. Founding member Trey Azagthoth is back and joined by guitarist Destructhor and new skinsman Tim Yeung. Illud Divinum Insanus<\/em> is the band\u2019s first album since September 2003\u2019s Heretic<\/em> and their first for new label home Season of Mist. <\/p>\n

It should be noted that this album is being slated all over the internet, so much so that you\u2019d think that Morbid Angel had delivered a stinkin\u2019 pile of shit. I\u2019m happy to say that the reports of Morbid Angel\u2019s demise are greatly exaggerated. <\/p>\n

The album opens with the standard fare for death metal albums, an \u201cevil\u201d-sounding intro piece. The band then launches into \u2018Too Extreme!\u2019, a quirky, industrial-ish number that is united in sound with a large chunk of the album. The song is kind of all over the place but the more I let it pulsate in my ears, the more it sounds like a marching anthem and the less it sounds like a Genitorturers tune. The same influence is firmly felt in the anthems \u2018I Am Morbid\u2019, \u201810 More Dead\u2019, and \u2018Destructos Vs. The Earth \/ Attack\u2019 (my personal favourite simply due to how strange it is!). The punchy and bouncy sound of \u2018Radikult\u2019 has an Antichrist Superstar<\/em><\/a>-era (October 1996) Marilyn Manson<\/a> or early Rob Zombie vibe to it that longtime fans seem to \u201chear\u201d as a lame attempt at rap rock but, honestly, I really dig the depth it gives the album by not allowing the album to get stale. <\/p>\n

Although about half the album is laden with industrial influences (which I don\u2019t mind at all), the other half basically picks up where Domination<\/em> leaves off, save possibly for a little less energy. \u2018Existo Vulgor\u00e9\u2019 is a punishing track that certainly reminds you that Vincent\u2019s semi-understandable vocal has been very much missed. \u2018Blades For Baal\u2019 is coupled with it and offers a little more of a groove and the break from the relentlessness of \u2018Existo Vulgor\u00e9\u2019 which makes said song seem a lot more punishing in context. \u2018Nevermore\u2019 (a song that they have been playing live for awhile now) is a great tune as well but fairly run of the mill in regards to what you were expecting this album to sound like (fast drums, swirling guitars, ripping solos, series of blended growls and screams, etc.). Oddly enough, \u2018Nevermore\u2019 may be what longtime fans wanted but in context it just seems like the band throwing them a bone. \u2018Beauty Meets Beast\u2019 is another groove-laden punisher that reminds you that Morbid Angel is every bit as good at laying grooves as they are playing at hyper-speed. <\/p>\n

When David Vincent returned to Morbid Angel in 2004, I\u2019m certain that fans everywhere thought a new album would be coming long before 2011. When considering that the band has been touring all over the world playing classic Morbid Angel material, it\u2019s only natural to assume that the long-awaited Illud Divinum Insanus<\/em> would be a return to form for these legends. In true Morbid Angel form though, they relaunched with their most diverse album to date. While diehard fans certainly have a lot to whine about here, they have failed to ask the most pertinent question of all\u2026Would David Vincent bring some of the Genitorturers sound back with him? The answer, of course, is yes. I\u2019m gonna disagree with most reviewers on this one and say that Illud Divinum Insanus<\/em> is the sound of Morbid Angel allowing themselves to be multi-dimensional and I enjoy the result. <\/p>\n

Mark Fisher<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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