Thursday, March 6, 2008
Morrisound Studios, How I Miss Thee
As a teenager I remember making fun of balding suburban douchebags who still wore tie-dye and had a hard time shaking their past. They were holding on to a time and place that had passed long ago.
Today, I sit here watching this video about Morrisound studios and I all of a sudden understand how suburban douchebags end up attached to another time and place. To the dismay of younger metal fans, I think death metal peaked in Morrisound Studios. Okay, laugh at me...I don't care. Those were simple days. Earache and Roadrunner were kings, the Milwakee Metal fest was THE place to be, blast beats were mostly irregular and sounded like a sack of potatoes falling down the steps...but things were good. It was a prosperous time.
Yes, some modern-day technical death metal impresses me....but nothing will compare to those early death metal records made at the mecca known as Morrisound. Yes, Morrisound is still around, but it's not the same. Damnit, where's my time machine when I need it?
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i was just thinking about this the other day. i've been downloading a lot of old demos and stuff from this blog:
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i downloaded the Disincarnate demo and have been listening to it quite a bit lately and i thought to myself, "they just don't make them like this anymore, do they?" that's when i realized i was a fossil like one of the suburban hippies you mentioned.
the one thing is that slam metal didn't really exist when we were kids. sure, there was pyrexia and internal bleeding, but they are pretty traditional compared to devourment, vomit remnants, disconformity, etc. i would have loved those bands when i was a teenager.
dude, every word you say could have come outta my mouth...
ReplyDeleteAwesome video. And yeah, the old shit is where it's at, no doubt. Everything about it, the artwork, the songs, the whole vibe...
ReplyDeletewell, not everything that came out of morrisound (or morrisounds as some florida locals called it) was gold. let us not forget damonacy and raped ape demos...
ReplyDeleteGet out of here! Damonacy (Demonacy? whatever...), weren't they that girl band that sounded like an American Bolt Thrower? I had that tape, thought it rocked pretty hard. Derivative as hell, but then Obituary was hardly groundbreaking either...
ReplyDeleteyeah, demonacy from miami. all girls. they were terrible, terrible, horribly horrendous, laughably bad live. we always thought dudes played the instruments in the studio.
ReplyDeleteScott Burns in an Assuck shirt making fun of Ralph Santolla made my week.
ReplyDeleteThank you for finding this.
I was lucky enough to be at the Milwaukee Metalfest '93 and it was pretty much at the height of death metal. Tomb Of The Mutilated was coming out, Retribution was coming out, Legion was out, The Law was out (not really death metal...but fuck..it's Exhorder!). This video brings back good memories! Nothing like seeing Agnostic Front, Suffocation, Obituary, Brutal Truth, Murphy's Law, Malevolent Creation, Exhorder and tons of others in a weekend! It was worth making the trip from Winnipeg.
ReplyDeleteObituary were/are not groundbreaking...but they are one of my favorite Celtic Frost cover bands to this day. i still love them. fore morrisound footage to come, i'm reaching deep into the vaults.
ReplyDeleteoh and it was Demonomacy, the all girl band from Miami. The girl sang in the Cynic demo.
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Finger me hard, Larry!!! GORGGGGG!
ReplyDeletethe only thing that could have made this video better would have been footage of scott burns's pickup truck.
ReplyDeleteworry not, footage of the pick up truck will be deployed soon. not to worry.
ReplyDeleteI never thought I'd see a man talk to a pretty blond about Demolition Hammer while keeping a straight face. Well, as straight as Scott Burns musters, at last.
ReplyDeleteReally, having her say 'death metal' over and over would just be a treat in itself.
"blast beats were mostly irregular and sounded like a sack of potatoes falling down the steps..."
ReplyDeleteThanx guys, I never laughed so much...;-)
Anyway I agree, they were great times...though Obituary payed 15.000$ for their 2nd LP, and now I can even record "Cause of death" part" on my computer, paying a dude 10 € / hour for the editing and a kickass sound!
My dream is to jump on Mike Browning time machine and get the master of Mortal Fungus new CD to Monte Conner just before He went to sign Obituary!!!
damonacy was a band from new jersey and they also played all 3 of the milwalkee death fests, demonomacy was the all girl group from florida.
ReplyDeleteThere was a band from Jersey called Demonacy, They were from where I grew up. Only reason I came across this page was I was looking for old demos from them on youtube...
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