THE ASYLUM PRESENTS

Morbid Angel

The band will be playing "Covenant" in full, the third album released in 1993, was a true milestone for the underground metal community and remains so to this day, being the first and only major label release by a death metal band at that time in North America on Giant records / Warner Bros..  The European release was on Earache Records,  JVC was the Japanese Partner and Modern Invasion was the Australian label.   Four different record deals and No compromises were made.  In fact, this album is considered to be one of the darkest and most Satanically-inspired releases by the band throughout its collection. The lineup for this masterpiece consisted of Trey Azagthoth, David Vincent and Pedro Sandoval.  The album was written by Azagthoth and Vincent and showcases some of the best work of the two together as cohesive brilliant song writers.  Covenant was produced at the familiar Morrisound Studios, this time with the expertise of Flemming Rasmussen behind the board. The final mixes were made at Sweet Silence Studios in Copenhagen. This would prove to be a massive success for MORBID ANGEL, as over one hundred and fifty thousand copies would be sold world-wide after release and this has increased to well over 250,000+ sales to date.   The band toured extensively, enlisting live guitarist Erik Rutan for European dates.  Brunelle would make a brief return for a line of American concerts with Motorhead and Black Sabbath a worthy fan highlight during the album touring cycle.  The videos for the singles ‘Rapture’ as well as for ‘God Of Emptiness premiered on Headbanger’s Ball to further build the band’s underground legendary status.  At this point MORBID ANGEL had become the living proof that creativity did not have to meet the demands of conformity in order to achieve commercial success.   
The band is ready to conquer and dominate further bringing this masterpiece to the stages of Europe in 2014.

Morbid Angel - Rapture

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