Morbid
Live in Stockholm
[Reaper]


Reaper records is a label from Belgium that is specialized in official releases concerning the mighty MORBID from Sweden (the first band of Per Yngve "Pelle" Ohlin AKA Dead). They already released the 1987 demo "December moon" as a MCD (limited to 1000 copies), the "Deathexecution" MLP (ltd to 500 copies) and finally this live CD supposedly limited to 500 copies. It presents the live show the band played in Stockholm's Birkagarden on the 10/23/1987 with the "December Moon" line-up and I have to say for an old recording like this the sound is really powerful, it is not a crappy bootleg with horrible sound quality. This official release has been digitally mastered and it's a real pleasure listening to these thrash/black metal monuments. The advantage brought by this CD (together with the killer photos of the band) is that there are some tracks that are not so well-known of most metalheads but that are worth of interest :"Fragile dreams", "Necrodead", "Citythrasher" "Deathexecution", all have this MORBID-styled riff i.e. a kind of thrash/black metal with some CELTIC FROST influences). Anyways Dead's voice was already tortured and one of the best in underground thrash/black metal, and if MAYHEM albums (or the previous MORBID releases) are your bible, tis one will become its first chapter.

8 / 10


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