MORBID - DECEMBER MOON
Album 51/365
This is a pretty interesting piece of history - Dead's pre-Mayhem band, Morbid, with their most popular release, a demo named
December Moon. And I'm quite into it. It's more death metal than what Pelle would go on to do later with Mayhem, and it keeps the attention nicely throughout. His vocals here are rather breathy, but he makes up for it back working it towards building atmosphere, and honestly, it's more what I wanted to hear from Dead from the start - mystical, eerie vocals. If he took the style from this recording and the strength from
Live In Leipzig, I think he could have become one of my favorite vocalists overall. But the rest of the band here is pretty great too. The guitarists work well with each other, and they slip in some really cool moments throughout (the calm opening to "Wings Of Funeral" and the wild explosion near the end of "Disgusting Semla"). Overall, I'm quite impressed. This is a really solid demo recording. I like it.
Rating:
86%