HamburgerBoy
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Morbid Visions is horrible. They could barely play. I've heard rehearsal room recordings that were recorded on a crappy tape deck that sound better.
Beneath the Remains is the best of their thrash stuff. Arise is a boring rehash of Beneath the Remains. Chaos AD is the awkward stepping stone, and Roots is where they finally found their sound. Then they imploded so everything after that is irrelevant.
It doesn't sound nearly that rough bro. There's still a general sense of structure and riffage present, so it's not like it's some kind of Bathory-tier necroshitfest.
I always hated it. I somehow ended up with a copy of the original vinyl and we used to put it on and laugh at it. I just checked the remaster on youtube and it's slightly better but not much. They sound like a rehearsal room band. It's so teenage that it hurts. I know everyone has to start somewhere but I don't get how it is ranked as worthy by anyone.
Would anyone agree with the following statement...?
Blood In Blood Out is better than At War With Reality
.. you're exaggerating. That album fucking rips, maybe it's just a bit too rough around the edges for you softies.
The drumming is tighter than that of Seven Churches fwiw, and they were actually able to play some fast (and not completely messy) tremolo picked riffs back when others were struggling to play trudging eighth-note Celtic Frost riffs. More cohesive than early Sodom, Hellhammer, etc too.