MORBID ANGEL guitarist Trey Azagthoth has posted the following message on his MySpace page:

"This post may seem strange to some of you but I see it important to state.

"OK, how do I even start...

"Well, this that I will say will not in any way surprise those of you who really know me as a person, but for those of you who do not perhaps you will be well confused.

"OK, I'm here on MySpace to have a personal account and meet people, other artists, thinkers, ones with beauty, intellect and somewhat centered with their life.

"What I mean is people who are past that rebellious stage in their life and are filled with joy and love. This is where I am. The only thing that would be viewed by myself at this time as a negative is ignorance, ignorance to what life is really about, being that of LOVE, BEAUTY, JOY and the celebration of such. The celebration of CREATIVITY.

"I don't want comments that are 'evil' or whatever; it's quite unnecessary. That kind of stuff is better to send to those other bands, not me.

"I only want to be a part of joy and the celebration of the gifts we all have as people filled with the beauty of SPIRIT.

"All these overly dark and evil comments really bore me and it has NOTHING whatsoever to do with where I am in my life.

"Like I said, some of you who read this may find it confusing or something, I'm sorry. I have my own thoughts in my head now and I have nothing to rebel against, nothing to be freed from. Nothing to hate, period.

"I have only love for you and my art is to interrupt the illusions that hold so many today. So that perhaps, the REAL SELF will be realized, and IT IS ONLY LOVE."



It cant be true! and all your song ????????

Trey's always been into alternative spirituality, and even if the trip from the Ancient Ones to Deepak Chopra might seem a little strange, it really, really isn't. Anyway, I don't see the problem with a guy who wants to express his joy for life through his music, even if the music is dark. Nor with a guy stating that he's grown out of a lot of metal's stupider trappings.

i bet he played some Dungeons & Dragons after posting that message.

even though i feel that he went a little overboard on the message he is putting across, but in a sense, its sort of refreshing. i have no problems with what he has said, other than that i think he could have toned down the enthusiasm just a tad. heh,

I wonder if Dave Vincent and Pete Sandoval feel the same way...

Don't be too frightened, he doesn't sound like he is really converting to another religion (not sure what he believed prior to this), just getting smarter. No one listens to me, but playing chromatic riffs night in and night out for decades will soften you up a bit.

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whatever trey, go back to noodling and writing shitty riffs

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.....LOL

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you talkin' to me, sucka!!!???

i can't hear you guys, it's too echo-y in here

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I totally agree

Trey's into alternative lots of things...

I think if I was making a living playing my guitar I'd be a happy positive-thinking mofo too.

He writes better music than what you could ever be capable of.

Trey>All other death metal guitarists, Suicmez included.

Trey has always been like this, it should not surprise you if you bother to read some of the bands' lyrics. It's not about sacrificing virgins and raising the dead anymore, Morbid Angel abandoned childish superficial lyrical themes long long ago. The music is about life, self-realization, not gimmicky violence or cheesy Satanist lyrics.

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^ just lol

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+1

Requiem and trannhomo...both of you are fucking idiots (tranny just joined the list in my book.)

btw, muhammed is boring. (I saw em live...that should say enough)




Trey has always been into odd shit from what I understand..hell, I have a hard enough time understanding where he comes from.

Its very ammusing when an ''internet lawyer's'' only hobby is to come on a forum and bad mouth artist that are light years ahead of them...

btw, tranny, WTF are you talking about trey writing shitty riffs? I would LOVE to hear something you write be more crushing and brutal than anything trey has written...

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How the fuck do you know?

That's like saying "his dick is bigger than your dick will ever be!1!1!". Don't defend anyone other than yourself. I'm sure Trey would be superly upset if he ever found out you said that. He wants us all to love each other, bitch.

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i am loling at this, youre such a tough guy

trey fucking sucks and morbid angel have enough good material for one album. which is pretty amazing considering theyve been sucking for many an album now. sandoval is also boring as shit

when i set out to write BRUTAL AND CRUSHING RIFFS and summon THE ANCIENT ONES i will most definitely let you know so you can compare our riffs and then judge my worth as a person

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In my book, hes up there, but I dont think any DM guitarist will ever come close to Chuck Schuldiner and what hes done for the genre

That's nonsense, cunt.

I never said I hated tranny or that other dude, but I'd like to see their quick-to-criticize asses come up with better music. Stop making such retarted comparisons and shut up..

Neither of you could write anything even 1/4 as memorable or enjoyable as his music, so I kindly suggest you stop talking shit about a band that has well over 20 years of history in making great music. The vast majority of worthwhile death metal bands you listen to now are either highly influenced by them or totally ripping off their sound.

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I like how both Tranny (who acts like he has any influence in inforcing rules upon other members) and Reqtum go out of their way to come into a thread just for the opportunity to make an off-topic post criticizing one of the biggest influences in Death Metal. If you're not going to talk about Trey's benevolent attitude, then don't fucking post. If you don't like Morbid Angel, thats fine but this isn't a thread asking for your shitty opinion about the band.

And Tranny, you shouldn't be talking - I've heard your attempts at riffs and creativity.

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Wow, are you guys really upset by this? I mean he is right, the only thing worse than terrible evil gore lyrics are the faggot fan boys who post stupid shit on myspace about it. I was pretty confident that the majority of metal fans were above the stupid evil gimmick and saw it as something you just needed to deal with to enjoy a lot of great bands musicly. Can someone please explain why wanting to express one's love of life through music is bad instead of worrying about how evil or brutal something sounds, but rather how well it reflect the emotions you are trying to get across?

Also, the whole argument that "UNTIL YOU WRITE SOMETHING BETTER YOU CANT SAY ANYTHING" is a load of bullshit. We are on a fucking forum for christ's sake, the whole point is to discuss likes/dislikes, fuck i don't think any of us have a very good chance of being in a very well known influential metal band so we might as well all stop having negative opinions on current metal bands right?

Necrophagist is horrible.

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I'm going to put this thread in my favorites so I can view how fucking stupid people are at my own leisure.

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Yeah, people are freaking out pretty bad in here.

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I see no problem with it.

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BE SPECIFIC BEFORE I HIT YOU!

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There is no problem at all with Trey's outlook. Its good he told everyone to quit with the inane comments. I don't see anyone "freaking out" in here. I see a person who thinks that Trey being a happy, loving person makes his music less enjoyable or real and a couple idiots dropping in to give their hollow opinions.

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Ha, when will you guys realize music is not a competition? I bet if somehow, in some magical far-off land, if all of us (metalheads) could agree on teh BEST metal band to represent the style as a whole, a country fan would think it is shit. Vice versa as well. Tranny thinks Necrophagist are really good, I think that they have found a new way to use a bunch of obscure scales to bore me.

Speaking of Necro, I'm seeing them live on Thursday, here's to hoping the overt technicallity doesn't bore the shit out of me in 10 minutes.

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I hope you know I was talking about transient and not Trey.

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haha...

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Personally I could care less what his preference toward life is, his music still kicks ass. As long as that doesn't change...

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exactly. Trey kicks ass at writing riffs man.

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Listen to Curse the Flesh. If there is a bad riff in that song you are insane.

I personally dont mind those sorta lyrics so long as theyre expressed in a creative way. Stuff like Deicide and Acheron...those kinda lyrics just make me wanna cringe. Bands should put more creativity into their lyrics rather than have chorus lines like "Kill the Christian....DIE!!!!" But, so long as theyre done in an artistic way, I really dont mind "evil" or "satanic" lyrics

i'll gladly pay production, printing and distribution of an album by a DM band if one of the songs has this chorus:

cheese cake
it's cake and cheese
cheesy cheese
cheese cake
cake and cheese
cheese and cake
for you and your date
it's cheesy cheese cake

Love. The human race is on the very edge of extinction.

Exactly. I thought it was the same but when there's people posting bands in this very same forum with the lyrics:

"Satan you are a loser, the victory has be won, CHRIST
is going to crush your head and grind you to a pulp,
Hammering Satans Head, Hammering Satans Head,
Hammering Satans Head, Crush his skull, Hammering
Satans Head, Hammering Satans Head, Hammering Satans
Head, Crush his skull, Hammering Satans Head,
Hammering Satans Head, Hammering Satans Head, Crush
his skull, Hammering Satans Head, Hammering Satans
Head, Hammering Satans Head, Crush his skull."

and it's getting a descent amount of commendation, you question whether or not death/grind will ever truly be able to push past '666 InVeRtEd CrOsS SaTan = RulZ!!!1!!!!!1!!!', or in this particular case '666 InVeRtEd CrOsS SaTan = GHEY!!!1!!!1!'

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Yes be in a Death Metal band and complain about people posting death metal 'influenced' comments?
I guess some people get tired of the beast they help create


Regardless, Morbid Angel still rule

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Where's Chris R. when we need him?! Ha, he's a giant MA fan.

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I agree w/ darko.
trey is right. ther is nothing rong with that
and he does not write shitty riffs at all

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They call him the Riff daddy for a reason.

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Huh....I didn't know he was a pimp...

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ive never heard anyone call him that.

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Anyone who says hes a Riff Daddy is fucking retarded. Looking back in the ol' days Morbid Angel's stuff was fucking sick, but comparing their material to alot of bands, they aint shit.

And Im tired of hearing Pete's overly triggered shitty drum sounds.

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Well just tell me who has you tied up next to a stereo with MA blasting. I'll come and stop them so you don't have to be so forced to listen to something you don't want to.

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Way to insult the vast majority of genuine MA fans. Morbid Angel's new material is just as good as their old(in fact, all the Tucker albums are better than Domination IMO), so hush your fucking mouth.

Like other death metal drummers don't trigger their drums. May I remind you that Pete was one who popularized the use of acoustic drum triggers in extreme metal? 99% of DM bands these days use them. And he's just as good without them, go watch any oldass rehearsal videos or watch him warm up at a fucking show.

And Trey is most certainly a pimp:
http://myspace-463.vo.llnwd.net/014...459806463_l.jpg

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lol, he's stealing a car at a gas station.

No he really owns a Pontiac with a custom engine.

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What if... the interweb was a city:

Trey: "Everyone love eachother!" *walks away whistling cheerfully*
Person A: *shocked* "rabble rabble"
Person B is offended by A: "flame flame"
Person C: "bitch bitch"
Person A: "rabble rabble rant rant"
Person D takes out his shiny blunt object.
Person E sits back and enjoys the show.

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lol at people having they're own opinions. come on people get over yourselves, not everyone is gonna have the same opionion as yours!!

w/e.... I still think pete's drum sound in Heretic sux. And Heretic is probably the most weakest cd ever. I missed the thick guitar sounds from Gateways. If only they mixed riffs from domination with the guitar sounds of Gateways, that shit would crush all but no....

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You missed the thick guitar sound? What are you talking about Heretic and Gateways production are so similar!

Heretic had lower-fi production, Gateways was more pro. Heretic is an amazing album but the production is the reason why most people didn't like it. The music is still amazing as the older albums(in fact it tastes a lot like Altars with a melodic FFtF edge to me), so not liking it to any extent is unacceptable. It IS my least favorite, but I enjoyed it more than Domination, it had better riffs for the most part.

Heretic doesn't sound triggered at all, don't know what the fuck you're talking about, especially if you bitch about drum triggering and like Gateways when it had competely electronic drumming.

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Ooo! Ooh shit!
BURN

It's recently come to my attention that Trey is starting to develope some sort of cult under his myspace. I spoke to him on it a few times and basically he's just posting wierd shit in his blog and stuff which sorta seems deep but really isn't, and while he does this, a thousand fans are worshipping his words with "OMG Trey best blog ever, omg you're so deep." and shit like that. He's sorta coming accross as trying to be smart, but sorta failing aswell, I dunno how to explain, he's being wierd though, ultimately I'm leannig to believe that this is some sort of attention ploy though.

Hahaha, he should start a cult. It'd be funny.

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Actually he decided to make his profile private again because too many anonymous people were posting dumb shit on his profile and harassing him. Mostly due to that dumbass that got blocked from his page cause he didn't have any profile picture that started talking shit about him out of spite. He said if it's starts becoming stupid he'll just close it down or something.

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Trey is a nerd. that all you need to know.

Wrong. His music. That's all you need to know.

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So who's gonna link us to his profile dammit.

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His mentality should be the mentality for every metal musician on a personal level.

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Doesn't matter since his profile is private again. But it's "instawow", put that in myspace.com/User/ or something if you're curious.

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lollerpops

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Anybody who's ever read his comments and thoughts within the Heretic album sleeve will know that Georgie boy has always been "a bit loopy" with all that spirituality spiel. It's not my cup of Earl Grey but good luck to him, I say.

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i like morbid angel, trey sounds like a happy fucker, herectic did have a weak guitar tone, and he does seem to be making more money off of his riffs than anybody else here, so wether they suck or not, they apparantly arent too shitty. BTW, what is drum triggering?

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worst argument of all time

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well, hows about this one, he is not only a genre pioneer, but is one of the biggest influences to many of the bands you listen to, which means, indirectly, he is an influence on you, SO, his riffs were good enough for him to spawn an onslaught of imitators.

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Best arguement of all time.

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No, it's not. But anyway, drum triggers are things you put on the kit and when you hit the kit [kick drum skin, snare skin, arch enemy drummer even has triggered symbols!] it creates an electronic noise which can be mic'd up, think of it as sorta giving an acoustic kit electric sounds - and i dont mean distorted techno electric either.

They're mainly used to process the drum sound to even out the kick drums and make the snare louder (especially during gravity blasting). Heretic has to possess one of the most heavily triggered drum sounds I've ever heard.

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Gateways sounds even more triggered(it was an electronic drum set), give that a listen. Heretic's drums were triggered but they sounded pretty friggin natural and raw, unlike what the vast majority of DM bands do these days that sound a bit too machine like and modern.

99% of death metal drummers trigger their drums these days both live and on records, so I really don't know why so many people bitch about drum triggering.

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yet another shitty argument. you can follow that logic back to the beginning of time to state that africans banging on hollow tree stumps are your true influences

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good luck to trey, wherever his loopy beliefs take him. i dont particularly care as long as he is doing things for his own reasons.

but this thread reminds me about a common human trait; that nobody wants to see someone else do better than them, whether its with finances, work, art, self-fulfilment or whatever, so most responses here shouldnt surprise anybody.

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George is cool.

Yeah that's fuckin true.

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I think I may be the only Morbid Angel fan who loves Heretic.

Not at all. Many people do, including myself. I just think the others are better though.

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I like it very much, as does Chris R.

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i dont hate that album, i just dont like it THAT much

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Yes, I do. There goes my oath to never, ever post in this shitty thread. I had that notarized, too. Fuck.

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it had some good songs like "enshrined by grace" and "God Of Our Own Divinity", but sometimes mr Sandoval should slow down with his drums its like all over the place all the fucking time. Give it some rest dude i want to hear some guitarriffs now and then.

I love Heretic, dude didn't I already say in this thread a few pagges back it's my fav. MA record?

Cleansed in Pestilence, Praise the Strength, Stricken arise and Beneath the Hollow have really great grooves and fast blasting vibes too. The ambient/instrumental tracks on it were also very nice. The whole album has an awesome feel, every song is pretty memorable, I just wish they focused a bit more on production though, it could've been such a great album if it didn't all sound all like a fuzzy demo tape from 1989. Tucker also busted his ass lyric wise on the album, which is cool to see someone besides trey writing everything.

I actually own the album, the edition with the bonus CD that has a bunch of demos/no-vocals versions of the tracks and seperate solos. Really nifty. I never play the CD though, it stays stashed away with my autographed copy of Altars, Covenant and FFtF.

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some people complain of the production, i think its great!!!

It's nifty, but I think it's not enough for a band of their stature,especially not in '04.

Their sound engineer punchy said the album was mixed so that it sounds better at high volumes, given the tremendous amount of midrange that was put into the mix. Instead of boosted bass and treble, which sounds good at mid-low volumes on home stereos, but like shit at high volumes like many death metal records. Only Trey was really happy with the production, Steve and Pete were sort of like "wtf I can't hear my own playing".

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the bass could be upped

Exactly what Tucker said.

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