MORTA SKULD — As Humanity Fades (review)

MORTA SKULD — As Humanity Fades album cover Album · 1994 · Death Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
2.5/5 ·
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"As Humanity Fades" is the 2nd full-length studio album by US death metal act Morta Skuld. The album was released in 1994 by Deaf Records/ Peaceville Records. Morta Skuld introduced themselves to the world with the "Dying Remains (1993)" debut album, which is a pretty standard US death metal release. I´d actually go as far as to call it mediocre and unremarkable.

...unfortunately things haven´t changed much on "As Humanity Fades". Morta Skuld still play some really standard US death metal. The pace is mostly kept heavy and mid-paced with a couple of faster parts thrown in for good measure. The doomy slow pace and haunting Paradise Lost (early) inspired leads from the debut are not a part of the band´s sound anymore. The vocals are brutal and mostly indecipherable growls. The vocals are not bad, but they soon become monotone. I miss passion and bite. The worst sinner here are the songs themselves though. After a couple of tracks it all becomes a monotone blur. There are no hooks to hold on to and the songs are forgotten as soon as they are over. If the band had chosen to include more memorable ideas like they do in the track "Different Breeds", where they include some nice short acoustic breaks I think the album as a whole would have been much more entertaining. The fact that "As Humanity Fades" is 50:18 minutes long, doesn´t exactly help either. That´s way too long for a death metal release when you don´t vary your music more than Morta Skuld do.

The production lacks a bit of punch, the musicianship is solid but not outstanding and as mentioned the tracks lack memorable moments, so all in all "As Humanity Fades" is a fairly standard product. I had really hoped that Morta Skuld had stepped up from the mediocre debut but I guess my hopes were set too high. I´ll rate this one somewhere between 2.5 - 3 stars.
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