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The big review: Wacken 2024
Kommen sie, bitte, und listen to metal: Architects, Amon Amarth, Jesus Piece, Korn, Scorpions and tons more descend on Europe’s heaviest party!
Morbid Angel will be on the road this fall this Watain and Incantation in tow.
Death metal icons Morbid Angel have announced a 2019 U.S. tour, called the 2019 USA Sickness Tour. Joining the band on the road will be Swedish black metallers Watain and American brutal death metallers Incantation.
Come worship some sort of phlegm-drenched god at one of the dates below:
November
21 Warehouse Live – Houston, TX
22 Gas Monkey Bar ‘N’ Grill – Dallas, TX
23 Come And Take It Live- Austin, TX
25 Sunshine Theater – Albuquerque, NM
26 Club Red – Phoenix, AZ
27 The Observatory – Santa Ana, CA
29 Brick By Brick – San Diego, CA
30 The Ritz – San Jose, CA
December
01 Hawthorn Theatre – Portland, OR
02 El Corazon – Seattle, WA
04 The Complex – Salt Lake City, UT
05 Oriental Theater – Denver, CO
06 The Waiting Room – Omaha, NE
07 Fine Line Music Cafe – Minneapolis, MN
08 The Forge – Joliet, IL
10 The Majestic – Detroit, MI
11 Rex Theater – Pittsburgh, PA
12 Union Transfer – Philadelphia, PA
13 Webster Theater – Hartford, CT
14 The Warsaw – New York, NY
15 Reverb – Reading, PA
16 The Broadberry – Richmond, VA
18 The Underground – Charlotte, NC
19 Buckhead Theatre – Atlanta, GA
20 The Orpheum – Tampa, FL
21 Revolution Live – Ft. Lauderdale, FL
READ THIS: The 15 greatest death metal albums of the '90s
We recently ranked the 50 best albums of 1989, will Morbid Angel’s Altars Of Madness coming in at a solid number four. While the band eventually grew into a Lovecraftian beast that took death metal to new places, it was their debut that gave the world Morbid Angel at its rawest. For 10 crushing tracks, Altars Of Madness thunders forth with the kind of enthusiastic horror-fueled death metal that feels like the genre distilled down to its purest form. At the same time, there’s a wildness to Morbid Angel’s sound present even on Altars -- a squirming, unholy sense of derangement layered atop its more traditionally-spooky moments -- that makes the Floridan quartet more than just a blastbeat factory. The result is about as killer a death metal record as you can find before the genre’s explosion in the ’90s.
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