Blackened Images

Mortuary

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 19, 1992)
• Original Release Date: May 19, 1992
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Relativity
• ASIN: B00008FNU2
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #424,600 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars LOST MEXICAN THRASH DEATH METAL CLASSIC!!!, September 8, 2004

By	T. Kasuboski (Winneconne, Wisconsin United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

WOW!!! What an album!!! Mortuary from Mexico were kind of like a blend of Massacra, Dead Head, Necrodeath, Ripping Corpse, Hydra Vein, and Amon(early-Deicide). A blistering album which perfectly blends late-80's speed metal with early death metal. Find this album while it is still available, because if you're an extreme metal fan and pass this one up, you will be eternally damned by the metal gods!!!! Long live Mexican thrash!!!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars DEATH METAL MEXICAN GODS ¡¡¡¡, January 11, 2004

By A Customer

Killing, frenetic and maniac death metal band from Mexico that makes an aggresive but intelligent form of metal.
When you listen to the apocalyptic Abyss Angel you relly feel the hell out of it, Satan coming up to earth to take your body and soul ¡¡¡¡
The energy and power from this band is really something different to the rest of mexican death metal bands, you just listen to Sacrilegious, Asphyxiation, Blood Storm and all the rest of the songs, they really show a freneticism and speed, an effectiveness never showed in any other mexican band.
If you ask me, I'd really reccomend this album, if you wanna know what a mexican death metal band can do, this is your chance ¡¡¡¡

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A band that never was, August 21, 2006

By	Alex A. Fintonis (Bay City, MI United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Mortuary was my introduction to Death Metal. Oh did I hate it. It was back 93' I had been heavily into hard rock and metal for about 2 years. I was really into bands such as AC/DC, Iron Maiden, and Metallica. I am still a huge fan of the first two. Metallica I am struggling with. But that's another story.

I had never heard of death metal before. I was in a Sam Goodie record store and I was looking through their bargain bin. I happened upon a CD with a purple cover with a bunch of weird abstract faces and eyes on it. Plus the band's logo was also pretty cool. That band's name was Mortuary. I bought the album "Blackened Images" for $5.99. I rushed home and popped it in my small boom box. The first track "Abyss Angel" starts and I was thinking not bad, a bit bland but not too bad. Then the vocals began. I then stated "uhhh what the heck is this junk" not quite in those words, but you get the point. I was able to make it through the first 4 tracks and I took it out of my CD player and didn't touch it again for another year.

I year later I finally knew what death metal was. I learned this from older kids who were into it. One of them gave me a cassette of Obituary's "Cause of Death" I immediately loved it. After I was done listening to Obituary's album I remembered that band with a similar name called Mortuary. I then dug through my junk CDs and found "Blackened Images". Listening to it again I enjoyed it a lot more. Time went on and I later discovered more bands such as Morbid Angel, Suffocation, Cannibal Corpse, Death, and Deicide, to name a few. I never liked Mortuary as much as those other bands, but I always wondered why they never got their shot.

After listening to the album again today. I was thinking it was a shame Mortuary really never got their big shot in the Death Metal scene. In my opinion "Blackened Images" showed some real promise. It has crunching guitar riffs and some really decent death vocals. The drums and bass are bit weak but not too bad. Granted I can hear a lot of Slayer, Morbid Angel, and such in Mortuary's music but it's pretty darn good. The record itself is a bit raw. It's more or less a demo and it's not much in the production department, but never the less it still is done well despite the fact of the poor production. If Mortuary would have landed a bit of a better deal with labels such as Earache, Metal Blade, or Roadrunner they might have had a better shot to get their music out there. Plus if a producer such as Scott Burns would have had a opportunity to produce a record for them we might have heard much more from these lads from Mexico. Anyway if you are into death metal and come across Mortuary's "Blackened Images" do yourself a favor and pick up this lost treasure.