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Morpheus Descends
When people say "death metal," this is more often than not what pops into mind. Rigid blasting roll of terrifying explosion and post-technological mysticism defines this release as a powerful statement for the genre. This band heavily influenced the New York style bands such as Suffocation or Cannibal Corpse.
Ritual of Infinity
JL America 1992
Production: Obscure, gassy and distorted with poor mixing but excellent bass representation.
Review: The original masters of New York style death metal, Morpheus Descends put together rolling heavy counterpoint riffs with techniques of extreme speed metal involving percussive rhythm from muffled or double-picked power chords. Tone-centric riffing moves through doomy passages to fast-strummed directional riffing in the style of Incantation, then the song returns to double-hit staging of counterpoint vocal rhythm, where a thesis in structure and lyric rides a rhythmic space and its antithesis returns with a double emphasis evenly countering that space, delivering in vocal and rhythm fulfillment of tension.
In its proximity to the raw fusion of death metal from previous metal and punk genres this music is rough-edged and sometimes overly demonstrative, but its affinity for subtle melodicity in complementing modal riffs makes this music epic and hopeful in the breadth of its tonal and temporal space. A good sense of presentation, including introduction and pacing, allows a wide range of phrases and riff fragments to be used in both rhythmic and structural senses to enforce continuity as layers written in the same basic harmonic and rhythmic spaces.
Gutteral vocals at a colonic resonance usher these explosive discharges of phrase along a cadence and introduce the alterations in riff and riff technique which texture this music professionally. Many of the patterns familiar from the work of bands such as Suffocation or Baphomet reflect the percussive drilling of power death metal riffing alternating with the ripping drone of uniquely evocative changing riff texture as part of the overall song structure. Like much early death metal, an appreciation for slow and sludgey chromatic riffs with plenty of double bass provides a rigid foundation against which to build melody. Unlike most contemporaries, however, this music can have character and a constant sense of motion in structure that enables continuity to dissonant, postmodern, thunderous music.
Record Label
JL America, Xtreem Music, Dark Horizon, HornedMoon
Genre
Death Metal
Lyrical theme
Death, Society, Mankind, Anti-Religion
Origin Formed in United States of America (Middletown, NY) 1992
Current label Status Dark Horizon Records Active
Last Known line-up
Sam Inzerra - Drums (Deadspeak, Mortician (US))
Andy Newton - Bass
Tom Stevens - Vocals, Guitar (Nokturnel, ex-Savage Death, ex-Incantation, Brimstone (US), Exile (US))
Rob Yench - Guitar (Mausoleum, ex-Volitile Zylog, Brimstone (US), Exile (US), Incantation)
Former/past member(s)
Craig Campbell - Vocals
Ken Faggio - Bass (Deadspeak)
Steve Hanson - Guitar (ex-Volitile Zylog)
Brian Johnston - Guitar
Jeff Reimer - Vocals (R.I.P. passed away on August 30 2005, as a result of a heroin overdose) (Decomposed)
Additional notes
Started under the name of Morpheus (US) in 1990 and later changed it to Morpheus Descends in 1992 Also see Fog, Typhus,
Nokturnal, Mausoleum, Exile, Brimstone, Incantation, Savage Death, Volitile Zylog, Deadspeak, Subconscious
Former MORPHEUS DESCENDS/DECOMPOSED vocalist Jeff Reimer passed away on August 30, reportedly as a result of a heroin overdose. Reimer was the vocalist for MORPHEUS DESCENDS' JL America debut, "Ritual of Infinity" (1992), as well as the follow-up EP, "Chronicles of the Shadowed Ones" (1994). He was also a member of unsigned New York death metal band DECOMPOSED.
MORPHEUS DESCENDS were formed in 1990 in Middletown, New York, under the group's original name, MORPHEUS.
This music is gut-wrenchingly heavy! PLEASE!!! You need to resurrect yourself and continue KICKING ALL EARTHLY ASS under the Morpheus Descends moniker! Go on a tour! You'd be surprised at the turn-out you'd probably get, but fuck money! Do it so you can crush heads and make us rot!
MD fucking rules!!! UGLY, SINISTER, REPUGNANT, VILE = YOU!!!
One of few bands that can actually scare, along with Cryptopsy, Infester, and Immolation! You guys rule! DO SOME TOURS! I have to see you guys before I die!
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