Addiction to Musickal Dissection
2014 Memento Mori
Even after 20 years, the sound of death metal varies from band to band. Sure, there's plenty of clones, but there's also plenty who choose to be influenced by several bands and not just one. I find it highly interesting how you can sometimes find bridges between one sound and another. Take Monstrosity for instance. They're been described as the missing link between Malevolent Creation and Morbid Angel. That description fits their "Imperial Doom" album perfectly. So what's that got to do with
this review of Morbo? Except for the fact that they're a "new" band in the scene, Italy's Morbo could have been the missing link between Autopsy and Acheron. Musically, Morbo take most of their cues from Autopsy, with a few hints of Hellhammer thrown in at times for good measure. Vocally though, Mirca "Offender" sounds more like Vince Crowley of Acheron (circa "Lex Talionis") rather than Chris Reifert. So what we have is a band that takes all of their influences and combines them all together in a way where the listener can pick out parts that remind them of band X or band Y, rather than hearing a bunch of songs that are not much more than a homage to one single band. Anyone who simply sums up Morbo as an "Autopsy clone" must not have been paying attention. They must not have heard (or more likely, chose to ignore) the parts of their songs that are definitely not Autopsy-like. Or Abscess-like, for that matter. Their loss, because "Addiction of Musickal Dissection" is far more than the sum of Morbo's influences.
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