Released November 10, 1986 Length 33:35 Artist Sepultura Producer Sepultura | Recorded August 1986 Morbid Visions
(1986) Schizophrenia
(1987) Release date 10 November 1986 Label Cogumelo Records | |
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Studio Estudio Vice Versa, Belo Horizonte, Brazil Genres Thrash metal, Death metal, Black metal Similar Sepultura albums, Death metal albums | ||
Morbid Visions is the debut studio album by Brazilian thrash metal band Sepultura, released on November 10, 1986 by Cogumelo Records. While later albums have a more political edge, Morbid Visions (along with the Bestial Devastation EP) is notable for "Satanic" themes. The band said many lyrics were fashioned after those of Venom and Celtic Frost (note the similarity of the album title to Morbid Tales).
Contents
The production of the album is rather poor. In the liner notes of Roadrunner's reissue of the album (which includes the tracks from the EP Bestial Devastation), Cavalera admits that the band neglected to tune their guitars during the sessions. They were only starting to learn English at this point, so they had to translate the lyrics word-for-word using a dictionary. The original vinyl pressings; and CD (with the exception of the earliest Roadrunner -then RoadRacer- pressings) and Tapes releases until 1992 of Morbid Visions featured the first movement of Carl Orff's Carmina Burana ("O Fortuna") as an unnamed introduction. This composition was left off the CD re-release, probably because of copyright issues. This would mark the last appearance of the group's original lead guitarist Jairo T.
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Track listing
All tracks written by Max Cavalera, Igor Cavalera, Jairo Guedes, and Paulo Jr., except where noted.
Personnel
Songs
1Intro / Morbid Visions4:39
2Mayhem3:18
3Troops of Doom3:23