Mortification - Blood World

I just listened to Blood World for the first time and this records is simply powerful... Full on Thrash.... FULL ON....

Curious why all the haters out there..... Is it just me, but as I listen here it plows away and just rips...

This is the Metal Mind version.... some cool bonus tracks as well....

thoughts?

I'm no hater. I dig Blood World.

I like it just fine.Lots better than some of their other releases

Thrasher73 wrote:

I like it just fine.Lots better than some of their other releases

+1

I have always loved Blood World.

I SEE

YOUR LIFE

YOU'RE GOING NOWHERE

I SEE

YOUR LIFE

ARE YOU IN DESPAIIRR


that's a good one, a few others too, but a lot of this record kind of sounds extremely samey in dynamics... it could have been a lot more explosive than it is. And the mix is very 'flat' somehow, makes me think of how 'Youthanasia' is mixed....the sound isn't appealing to me..

some good songs on it. This one and hammer of god are definately standouts more so than some of the later morty albums in my opinion.

Not a horrible album, but you have to remember that some of us were used to Jayson Sherlock's drumming, and then Phil Gibson's on the Blood World album. The drumming, while solid, just wasn't the same. And the overall style was such a departure from that to which I had become accustomed. Not a bad album, but it doesn't grab me like the first three.

Bloodworld is a good cd.

I can't say I was too pleased about how the media blitz for 'Blood World' at the time overshadowed the release of my first solo album, incidentally titled 'Butt World'. A lot of people did the judge-a-book-by-it's-cover on that one, but really, it's their loss if they're too lazy to plunge into the concept.

Orion Crystal Ice wrote:

I can't say I was too pleased about how the media blitz for 'Blood World' at the time overshadowed the release of my first solo album, incidentally titled 'Butt World'. A lot of people did the judge-a-book-by-it's-cover on that one, but really, it's their loss if they're too lazy to plunge into the concept.

have intense millenium reissue it so the masses can get a chance to hear the forgotten classic.

The record companies are with me on the reissue idea until it gets to my idea for how I want the digipak to open up, then my inbox just flatlines.

Orion Crystal Ice wrote:

'Butt World'.

That would be a funny album cover, is the moon shot from a man or a woman?

Orion Crystal Ice wrote:

The record companies are with me on the reissue idea until it gets to my idea for how I want the digipak to open up, then my inbox just flatlines.

damn suits just dont know what the fans want.

325ad wrote:

Orion Crystal Ice wrote:

'Butt World'.

That would be a funny album cover, is the moon shot from a man or a woman?

Unfortunately I couldn't answer that for you... I like the fans to get their own meaning out of my art.... what it is to you, you know..

I like a couple songs from Blood World but overall i didn't like the direction they went in and the production was dull IMO. And it wasn't the same without Jayson Sherlock.

I've been jamming Blood World a lot this whole week! Symbiosis is prolly my fave song off the album.

I always loved Blood World. To me it's kind of a bridge between the old Morty and the mid-to-late 90's Morty with Lincoln Bowen and Kieth Bannister, which I also loved too. Blood World was an important album cuz we all know most line-ups dont stay together forever and Steve needed to prove to himself and his fans that whatever it took, Mortification would persevere.

Stender wrote:

Orion Crystal Ice wrote:

I can't say I was too pleased about how the media blitz for 'Blood World' at the time overshadowed the release of my first solo album, incidentally titled 'Butt World'. A lot of people did the judge-a-book-by-it's-cover on that one, but really, it's their loss if they're too lazy to plunge into the concept.

have intense millenium reissue it so the masses can get a chance to hear the forgotten classic.

metal mind just re-issued it last year i think.

I like BW, the vocals I think are the weakest link compared to what came before it, but good for Steve for always branching out.

it was the first extreme christian metal album I ever heard back in 1998 or 1999. So this is a very special album to me. I haven't listen to it in years but I remember it had some great songs like "YOUR LIFE","BLOOD WORLD" AND "STARLIGHT"

stevegarveyfan wrote:

Not a horrible album, but you have to remember that some of us were used to Jayson Sherlock's drumming, and then Phil Gibson's on the Blood World album. The drumming, while solid, just wasn't the same. And the overall style was such a departure from that to which I had become accustomed. Not a bad album, but it doesn't grab me like the first three.

Exactly. And I think a lot of it had to do with the timing. While it is a good album, before this record was released, Morty was "labeled" as death metal. Obviously there was more to it than that, but a lot of fans lost interest because of the change in musical direction. The thunderous drums ended and Steve stopped growling with that one. Mort put out two of their heaviest records with "Scrolls" and "Post-momentary." The very next album was "Blood World."

When I first heard Bloodworld I was a little shocked. I mean c'mon, I'd been rocking out to the S/T and Scrolls for a long time! I love BW now, but on first listen I was a little thrown off.

I thought Blood World was the natural progression from Post Momentary Affliction. Steve had started mixing in more of the shouted vocals on that album and had brought in a lot of Manowar influences on that album. Blood World just continued to explore those ideas, only deeper IMO.

Really, the only Mort album I don't care that much for is Silver String is Severed, but even that one has a handful of songs I like.

after their first 3 albums, they've always been hit or miss for me. no real bad albums, but none all that great either.