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Gateways is a great album to me and truly the album that sticks out among their post Vincent days, the riffs are crushing (Opening the Gates, Ageless still I am) and the faster tempo it inherited from Domination and Formulas make it a crushing album. I find myself coming back to it the most out of the albums in their discography, apart from Covenant which is just amazing through and through.

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Gateways is a great album to me and truly the album that sticks out among their post Vincent days' date=' the riffs are crushing (Opening the Gates, Ageless still I am) and the faster tempo it inherited from Domination and Formulas make it a crushing album. I find myself coming back to it the most out of the albums in their discography, apart from Covenant which is just amazing through and through.[/quote'] I would likely give Gateways the nod as the best of their later work too, but Formulas is a great album as well. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
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Great band' date=' but obviously beause of the first albums. The shows nowadays are also fucked up here and there... What's up with the singing in Chapel of Ghouls? That doesn't sound evil at all![/quote'] Yeah, I wasn't too keen on them singing to what should have been they keyboard lines. It was campy fun, but took some depth from the atmosphere. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
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Indeed' date=' but I always enjoy their shows though.[/quote'] David Vincent is a bit of a diva too, and his new get up and hair make him look like Nikki Sixx, but they did put on a great show. It sucks that Pete is out though, that guy can drum circles around Tim Yeung and his obnoxious triggers. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
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On 3/12/2014 at 9:13 AM, Woutjinho said:

I always enjoy their shows though.

 

On 3/12/2014 at 1:48 PM, BlutAusNerd said:

David Vincent is a bit of a diva too, and his new get up and hair make him look like Nikki Sixx, but they did put on a great show.

 

I went to see them in December 2014, and couldn't agree more about it being a great show.

But yes, Vincent was looking a bit Sixxy now you mention it :D

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I've got 'Blessed...', 'Covenant', 'Domination' and 'Heretic' and I really like them. I saw them live in London a few years ago too and it was really good. They've obviously had a huge influence on metal in general. I think I like them because they were always so unique and different. Man, I haven't put one of their CDs on for ages now. I'll have to bring one in rotation in my car. 

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I love Alters, never got into Blessed, love Covenant (it was the first Death Metal C.D. I bought), Love Domination, Entangled is good but they play slower than the studio versions, Formulas is good, Gateways is good, Heretic is o.k., haven't heard the I album as I'm afraid to, Juvenalia is awesome.  

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Earache put out a bunch of Best of compilations last year. Bolt Thrower, Napalm Death, Carcass... probably of any band that's not on their label anymore that they've got their hands in the pockets of.

Morbid Angel are great. I first saw them live on the Extreme Steel tour with Pantera and Slayer. Jared Anderson was on vocals for that tour. Saw them again in 2013 when they played Covenant in its entirety with David Vincent and it was also cool to hear David on some of the Steve Tucker songs like "Ageless, Still I Am." They worked well as a three piece, and I like Steve Tucker, but the Vincent/Azagthoth/Brunelle/Sandoval line up is hard to beat. Beyond that, I have all their albums, also on vinyl, some bootlegs too. Hard to pick a favorite but I like Altars, Blessed and Formulas the most. Illud Divinum Insanus at least had three good songs I liked on it. Apart from that one, I think Gateways was their weakest. Domination was weird, but in a good way.

Pretty funny that David Vincent's making country music now.

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So I have been listening to "Gateways..." a lot this week and the initial sheen does wear off quite quickly as I recall it being a little to samey throughout which is a shame because it almost ends up being a paint by numbers DM record as a result.  More standout tracks like "Ageless, Still Am I" would have varied proceedings a little more making the album seem less "stodgy".

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