Thrash metal, 1990, Sweden
Demo
The precursor to Authorize before they changed names, this band is much more in the thrash vein. The demo starts with an acoustic intro and eerie, spoken vocals over top. Broken Hynposis comes next, being a fairly fast song (faster than most of Authorizes material) with some early blast beats present. The vocals are more of a croaked, almost black metal frog like, that I find odd than anything else, reminds me of some of the vocals Paul and Rich did for Tirant Sins demos. The vocals get much more "screamy" later on in the 4th song, Mindless Confusion.
Thrash, thrash, thrash riffs. Fast, and headbangable pretty much sums this demo up with an eerie intro/outro (the intro and outro are very similar they are practically the same). After releasing this demo, Darkest Age, they changed their name to Authorize and started to play death metal. I think they got their names mixed up, Morbid Fear sounds much more death metal than Authorize! An incredibly solid release, hampered a bit by the poor recording. They definitely knew what they were going for and were committed to achieving it.
A brief interview with their drummer can be found
here, explaining as to why they changed style.
- Intro
- Broken Hypnosis
- Darkest Age
- Mindless Confussion
- Thy Kingdom
