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MORGUE  Eroded Thoughts (MAGENTA VINYL)  LP   (The Crypt)   25.99


Newly reissued on vinyl by The Crypt, this slab of weirdo death metal is a faithful reproduction of the original album release. Here's my review from the previous CD edition:

While they might have been largely forgotten outside of fanatical death metal message boards, Morgue were definitely deserving of this collection that came out a little while back on Dark Descent. Eroded Thoughts gathers everything this short-lived Midwestern death metal band released during their run in the early 90's, with the main attraction being their sole full-length album that came out in 1993 on Grind Core International. With its cool surrealistic cover art, Eroded Thoughts never found a widespread audience, but it did offer an eccentric sort of sludgy tech-death that fans of more offbeat brutality would dig.

Playing a fairly technical brand of sludgy death metal that was very much of its time, Morgue's music was somewhat comparable to the likes of Autopsy, Asphyx and Cianide, and in fact shared members with the latter. Combining violent, guttural vocals and crushing riffage, shifting between blasting tempos and churning double-bass mayhem, to rampaging D-beat crashing headfirst into the band's pulverizing doom-laden passages, Morgue totally embodied that early 90s death metal aesthetic. But they also put their own bloody stamp on this stuff, injecting a heavy dose of Voivodian dissonance and convoluted songwriting into these seven tracks. And it can get kinda weird, with riffs abruptly stopping short or bending into angular, disjointed shapes, and twisting into eerie, unexpected melodies on songs like "Severe Psychopathology" and "Personality Conflict". And on the back half of the album, they start to get into a kind of brutal prog-death, pretty twisted at times, with a weird riff-logic. Much like the bizarre death metal of Japan's Transgressor, Morgue's brand of pummeling, doom-laden heaviness can sometimes feature some really odd structural and rhythmic choices. And whey temper the more off-kilter side of their sound with blasts of chaotic grindcore, it's some seriously maniacal stuff, with supremely monstrous vocals that have a Van Drunen-like quality to 'em, adding to the overall atmosphere of frenzied violence that permeates Morgue's strange sound.

This new vinyl reissue from The Crypt features the original seven-song track listing, and also includes an insert with lyrics, photography, and scans of flyers, interviews and demo sleeves.


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