Earache/Wicked World ■ WICK011LP
Released April 11, 2000
Produced by Piotr Wiwczarek (aka "Peter (VADER)")
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- Winds of Creation
- Blessed
- The First Damned
- Way to Salvation
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- The Eye of Horus
- Human's Dust
- Nine Steps
- Danse Macabre
- Mandatory Suicide
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In discussing
metal, I typically refer clearly--at some point, anyway--to my first ever "real" metal band, which was Morbid Angel.¹ Indeed, it was their second album,
Blessed Are the Sick that really "clicked" with me finally, once I was able to get used to David Vincent's vocals (and thus, forever after, the "cookie monster" growling that typifies death metal at large). I actually ordered the album direct from their label, Earache, at the time, back when I was still in high school. Coupled with it were a handful of stickers for other bands, like December Wolves and, well, Decapitated. Because I still knew so little about metal, I took those two names as inspiration for further exploration--and, hey, I was an eMusic Unlimited member at the time (when there still was such a thing), which meant their partnership with Earache opened the door for me to try just about anything I felt like that they recommended.
