Altars of Madness or Blessed are the Sick?

IronGuardian · **Posted:** Wed Feb 18, 2009 6:49 pm

Gotta go with Alters by a lot. I also agree that Covenant is the best Morbid Angel album.

stevelovesmoonspell · **Posted:** Thu Feb 19, 2009 2:27 am

riiiight

cry of the banshee · **Posted:** Thu Feb 19, 2009 3:28 am

Altars by a long shot.

dontbombme · **Joined:** Fri Dec 14, 2007 7:29 pm **Posts:** 70

altars is definitely their best album. Blessed was too slow in my opinion. Altars is just badass

juannaman · **Joined:** Tue Jan 20, 2009 12:53 pm **Posts:** 360

don't wanna state the obvious but covenant by far is the best than aom mainly cos the compositional technique in bats was not that good

DevotedWalnut · **Posted:** Mon Mar 09, 2009 11:55 pm

juannaman · **Joined:** Tue Jan 20, 2009 12:53 pm **Posts:** 360

lisen to it again and u will see that azagoth and vincent were probably quite lazy when writin these songs

Goat · **Posted:** Tue Mar 10, 2009 12:05 am

juannaman wrote:

don't wanna state the obvious but covenant by far is the best than aom mainly cos the compositional technique in bats was not that good

Just so I understand, you're saying that Covenant is better than Altars, because of Blessed's 'poor' compositional technique?

traptunderice · **Posted:** Tue Mar 10, 2009 3:54 am

Goat wrote:

juannaman wrote:

don't wanna state the obvious but covenant by far is the best than aom mainly cos the compositional technique in bats was not that good

Just so I understand, you're saying that Covenant is better than Altars, because of Blessed's 'poor' compositional technique?

That just blew me away. This guy can't be anything but a joke. I hope it's ken.

DevotedWalnut · **Posted:** Tue Mar 10, 2009 4:14 am

traptunderice wrote:

Goat wrote:

juannaman wrote:

don't wanna state the obvious but covenant by far is the best than aom mainly cos the compositional technique in bats was not that good

Just so I understand, you're saying that Covenant is better than Altars, because of Blessed's 'poor' compositional technique?

That just blew me away. This guy can't be anything but a joke. I hope it's ken.

Far too stupid to be Ken. But it sure would be awesome if it was him.

juannaman · **Joined:** Tue Jan 20, 2009 12:53 pm **Posts:** 360

no it ain't ken :mad:

ok you idiots your understanding of music isn't very good i see
fine let me demonstrate this with an example
'Thy Kingdom Come' for instance - the chorus riff, with that strange octave alternative technique...it's an awesome idea in rhythm, and in melody. But you can see, as the riff progresses, that it's just not as solid as you'd expect it. It's ''soft'' in structure, definitely not in depth in its own concept - and loses its own momentum and energy (and originality) by the end of its progression. Little compositional MISTAKES like those, just make Blessed a lesser album from the professional side :cool:

Goat · **Posted:** Tue Mar 10, 2009 4:21 pm

<quote="juannaman">no it ain't ken :mad:

ok you idiots your understanding of music isn't very good i see
fine let me demonstrate this with an example
'Thy Kingdom Come' for instance - the chorus riff, with that strange octave alternative technique...it's an awesome idea in rhythm, and in melody. But you can see, as the riff progresses, that it's just not as solid as you'd expect it. It's ''soft'' in structure, definitely not in depth in its own concept - and loses its own momentum and energy (and originality) by the end of its progression. Little compositional MISTAKES like those, just make Blessed a lesser album from the professional side :cool:

</quote>

So this makes Covenant better than Altars... because?

juannaman · **Joined:** Tue Jan 20, 2009 12:53 pm **Posts:** 360

that's another story
it would take some time for a conclusion

Goat · **Posted:** Tue Mar 10, 2009 4:23 pm

OK, no longer shall I take thee seriously.

juannaman · **Joined:** Tue Jan 20, 2009 12:53 pm **Posts:** 360

what why

DevotedWalnut · **Posted:** Wed Mar 11, 2009 8:58 pm

...

seriously?

The Mighty Skub · **Joined:** Sat Jul 26, 2008 4:22 am **Posts:** 31

I recently just listened to both of these for the first time. Altars is definitely the heavier album where as Blessed has more...ambiance for lack of a better word. And for someone who is just now getting into death metal I have to give it to Blessed Are the Sick.

Dead Machine · **Joined:** Sun Sep 19, 2004 6:24 pm **Posts:** 2527

I prefer Blessed.

It's more sinister, more organic... more there, if you know what I mean. Can't really explain it very well.

hellraiser_xes · **Posted:** Fri Apr 17, 2009 10:40 am

Altars of Madness, definitely.

stub · **Posted:** Sun May 17, 2009 11:59 pm

Dead Machine wrote:

I prefer Blessed.

It's more sinister, more organic... more there, if you know what I mean. Can't really explain it very well.

+1

Blessed is the best MA ,imo; anyway , up to Formulas,those guys have delivered masterpiece after masterpiece.

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