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Awesome video, man. I love Ripping corpse. I can't be 100% sure but I believe the beginning of the song Hatefire which was supposed to be on their second album is redone as the beginning of the song Spirit of the dragon on the first Dim Mak album. The question is: Would we rather have 4 Ripping corpse albums or 4 Dim Mak albums? 🤔 I say 2 Ripping corpse albums and 2 Dim Mak albums. 😁

Great vid! I personally regard Blessed Are the Sick as their magnus opus. While Alters is incredible, I like the controlled refinement in Blessed. Also I find the Alters cover art corny, while Blessed's cover is refined and hints towards an elegant experience with the occult.

I can't think of an explanation why A Distant Thunder and Nosferatu aren't as widely known as Master of Puppets, The Number of the Beast, you name it. They're are just as good or even better.

how about Gary Lee Connor?

😂my uncle was the OG drum player

RP got their name from the Kreator song of the same name

2nd demo was titled Splattered Remains, not Scattered Remains. 3rd demo, AFAIK, is just called Demo #3. And I don't think the unreleased album is actually called Growing Ancient With The Cold. That's never been confirmed. It's just the title that uploader attached to it. BTW, where did you get those interviews?

One of my early 90s favorites. I think the album from '91 is better than many of its more famous counterparts from the same era.

The cover art for the first album was a skeleton in a red shroud with a wand of lightning. I had the cassette in 84. Shadows of Iga was a rocking tune about ninjas. The mythology was popular back then. When you tried to order Burning Star there was a glitch and you got the next album by mistake. It was a painful thing. Hey, thanks for overlooking that. 🤡

Repulsion?

The first two Morbid Angel albums are flawless to me. Huge influence on me and my friends at the time. I love Mike Browning as a drummer but didn't like the demos (except for the '87 one) or the shelved first album 'Abominations'. 'Covenant' was good and certainly more polished than the previous two but wasn't as consistent. 'Domination' was okay; some bangers, some absolutely terrible songs. I think the addition of Erik Rutan on backup guitars from Ripping Corpse (another fantastic early 90's New Jersey thrash/death metal band) was a great addition and gives the album the polish it does. 'Formulas' was an album I didn't like that much at the time but wow, it has grown on me quite a bit and is IMHO, is the last good album they made. Everything after was mediocre or downright terrible in my opinion. Speaking of Terrorizer, an old Los Angeles area band before Pedro moved to Florida and Jesse moved to the UK, agreed that 'World Downfall' is an absolute classic. One of Scott Burns best recordings too. Good video!

I really hope you have a new video coming. We need more!! 🤘🏼

Love death metal (and make it too for a long time) but i just always thought Morbid Angel was/is just lightyears better than others in tht genre, at least in the past at the time theywere coming out.

Just popping in here to give appreciation to the Steve Tucker era I know its a Hot Take. (Disclaimer)I love Altars and Covenant as much as we all do. Heretic and Formulas are God tier albums to me. Formulas is like Altars 2.0 in alot of ways, with Dave gone, I feel like Trey had full creative control over the sound and the theme (evident with all the Sumerian stuff) Heretic has a .....different style production I realize, but to me That album has the best song writing from the Steve era and Pete was in his ABSOLUTE PRIME!!

Disappointed to see the discussion stops at domination. Formulas, Gateways, and heretic are all great releases and they showcase Morbid angel under treys purist vision of the band. Some of the most forward pushing material and outward thinking stuff is on those records (not to dismiss the legendary first three albums ofc) and they get slept on too much, especially heretic due to its shitty production. IMO illud is the only truly bad morbid album. With all that being said, I recently saw I Am Morbid live with Dave Vincent and Pete Sandoval and they were great live.

One thing i love from morbid angel is that all their albums sound different, they always evolved and each has a unique sound without losing the morbid angel sound, the trey azagthoth style. So besutiful. Unfortunately looks like morbid angel is close to its end, since trey is too old already and he has a drinking problem. But their music will alqays be here and enjoyable. I think altars if madness ir overrated, they evolved much more and got better and better musically, i prefer covenant, formulas fatal to the flesh and kingdoms disdained

Abominations predated Bleed for the Devil.

Morrisound also worked on mainstream bands.

A to C, there is no more important metal band.

Not exactly how you word it here... Dawn Road and what was left of the Scorpions, Meine and Rudolf, FUSED or combined. Meine and Rudolf did not "join" Dawn Road as you state here. Both bands UNITED and as you correctly say, they kept the name as Scorpions because the name was more widely known due to their touring with UFO during 1972-73.

What do you mean you put midnight up there with dio, Tate and halford? He shits all over those bums

My ranking for the Mercyful Fate albums would be 7. 9 6. Dead Again 5. Melissa 4. Don’t Break The Oath 3. In The Shadows 2. Into The Unknown 1. Time

Uli is one of my first guitar heros. I still remember the first time when, back in 1977, I heard POLAR NIGHTS. It was a revelation. I went out and bought Virgin Killer (with the band photo on the cover). I was initially disappointed that no other song on the album had a similar sound, but I eventually bought Fly to the Rainbow, In Trance, and then Lonesome Crow, with the amazing 17yo Michael, who I already knew from UFO. I missed one chance to se Uli in the 90s, but I made sure to see him the next time he came through. The Scorpions’s new sound and massive success in the 80s, and beyond, surprised me, but I’m glad I was able to see them, almost ten years ago.

Consuming Impulse is so underrated imo. It’s by far my favorite death metal album and Testimony of the Ancient is top ten.

I think on Abominations of Desolation, Browning was drumming and doing vox simultaneously

12 - Give Me Your Soul Please 11 - Abigail 2 10 - The Graveyard 9 - Voodoo 8 - The Spiders Lullabye 7 - The Puppet Master 6 - Fatal Portrait 5 - Them 4 - Conspiracy 3 - Abigail 2 - The Eye 1 - House of God That’s my ranking but I own them all, listen to them all and if you ask me tomorrow it might shift. I love all the albums. Flawless career. Flawless victory.

I agree with your analysis I disagree with your rankings but there is no bad album so ranking is hard

Hey mate, you have to be an Aussie 🇦🇺 I've had parts of Alters tattooed on me since I 19. I'm now 51, I was lucky enough to see them.

I bought the Fly To The Rainbow album in 1975. I bought it on an Air Force Base in NC. All of their early albums weren't in very many record stores, only the small specialty stores that sold import albums. That is one reason that they didn't sell well in the USA. I found a record store/head shop in Winston-Salem, NC named Misty Mountain Rock. It was ran by a man named Claude and his wife. He knew about every rock album that had ever been released and had a personal collection of over 5,000 albums. He had the Scorpions LP's and turned me on to Judas Priest, Atomic Rooster, Dust, Sir Lord Baltimore, UFO and Budgie among others. For years, I was the only one in my town who had these albums. In my opinion, Roth was the best rock guitarist in the world during those years.

insanely great picks🤘🤘

Fly to the rainbow and intrance is the best album's to listen to especially on a long road trips in know time it feels like your there in no time love the scorpion s

I'm 52 and my favorite album by them was Blessed are the Sick but I don't like the satanic lyrics because I'm trying to get closer to God.

Altars of Madness is a seminal, special album. It's the Ne Plus Ultra of Death Metal. Of course, they could never top it. But heck, not every band can be Voivod.

That dude walked in on Trey making out with his girlfriend who was a hooters waitress. Lucky bas****

I completely agree with opinion and thoughts on early Scorpions. Well done.

Its fuckin whisky time🤪🤘

For the longest time I dismissed Scorpions. Most of their singles I’d heard on the radio did nothing for me. Then I heard some of this era and I was in love. I’m still not a fan of their later releases, but some of this era is among my favorite music ever.

I saw them play at Fame City Waterpark in Houston back in the day. Me and my bandmates were big fans. They were cut off for being too loud. Other than that, I had a great time. They had good songs to practice my double bass drumming to.

Virgin killer and In trance are both a 10 out of 10. Virgin killer i think is when the states finally woke up and realized just how good these guys are period.

Great job, bro!

an era that should be known by all greatt music aficionados. Wow! What a body of work. Kudos to Matthias Jabs and the Scorpions for carrying on and exploding and growing afterwards. I have interviewed both Uli Jon Roth and Matthias Jabs (and spoke about Uli's departure in both. Shameless plug here: My upcoming book Rock Stars on God, Volume Three features that direct discussion with Matthias.

Excellent breakdown of a very overlooked part of their career and also my favorite. Well done, some great insights

Finally, someone shares my tastes and opinion about the Scorpions music. For me, the true Scorpions is all what they created in 70s.

The Uli Roth era is the only era when Scorpions had a spirit and a soul. No band sounds like THAT Scorpions. After he left the band became a kind of pop metal band like thousands of others. Lovedrive is great thought, thanks to Michael.

Fly to the Rainbow is basically a Dawn Road album. Achim's keyboards are very much to the fore. I always felt In Trance was the first mark 2 Scorpions album. They're all good though - everything up to Tokyo Tapes is a must-have.

I saw pestilence in 1990 with carcass and death great times back then

Great video man

I would love to hear a Michael Schenker/Uli Roth collaboration.

Sorry dude, but I gotta disagree with you about Coroner's spotless catalogue. Grin is not even listenable. A HUGE mar on their discography IMO

Slightly off topic but the Live album is one of the greatest and most overlooked (except by Frank Marino fans) live albums ever!