Grand Morbid Funeral is the fourth studio album by Swedish death metal band Bloodbath. It was released by Peaceville Records on 17 November 2014.
Grand Morbid Funeral | ||||
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Studio album by Bloodbath | ||||
Released | 17 November 2014 (2014-11-17) | |||
Recorded | March – September 2014 | |||
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Genre | Death metal | |||
Length | 46:31 | |||
Label | Peaceville | |||
Producer | Bloodbath | |||
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Grand Morbid Funeral was recorded in 2014 at Ghost Ward and City of Glass in Stockholm, Sweden and self-produced by the band. It was released on 17 November 2014 by Peaceville Records.[1] This is the first Bloodbath album to feature vocalist Nick Holmes from UK metal band Paradise Lost after Mikael Åkerfeldt of Opeth left, having lost interest in performing death metal.[2] Anders "Blakkheim" Nystrom of the band states that the album is "destructive, raw, heavy, organic and sludgy death metal."[3]
The album features guest appearances from Chris Reifert and Eric Cutler from death metal band Autopsy.[3]
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Source | Rating |
Blabbermouth | 8.5/10[4] |
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Exclaim! | 8/10[6] |
Blabbermouth described the "unapologetic fury" of Grand Morbid Funeral and stated that the album "brings the same old-school, brutalized death metal Bloodbath has been hailed for".[4] MetalSucks commented that new singer "Holmes' voice is just the worm-gut-strewn axe-to-the-skull this music needs" and stated that "if you've spent most of 2014 waiting around to get leveled by a death metal record with a little legacy heft, you might want to get out there and snatch up the new Bloodbath".[5] The review in Exclaim! stated that "Bloodbath have upped the brutality ante with Grand Morbid Funeral" and claimed that Holmes has "surpassed expectations with powerful and sinister throat-gurgling delivery".[6]
All tracks are written by Bloodbath.
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Let the Stillborn Come to Me" | 4:37 |
2. | "Total Death Exhumed" | 3:51 |
3. | "Anne" | 3:43 |
4. | "Church of Vastitas" | 3:37 |
5. | "Famine of God's Word" | 4:56 |
6. | "Mental Abortion" | 3:47 |
7. | "Beyond Cremation" | 4:41 |
8. | "His Infernal Necropsy" | 3:35 |
9. | "Unite in Pain" | 3:52 |
10. | "My Torturer" | 4:17 |
11. | "Grand Morbid Funeral" | 5:35 |
Total length: | 46:31 |
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