Morbid Angel – Blessed Are The Sick

Sounds brilliant. Even never sounded this good. Huge stage, exceptional separation. Flat and silent wax. A revelation with a pair of quality headphones.
The overall artwork reproduction on the other hand is utter crap.
No mercy.
Simple as that.

Sounds excellent much better than the cd version. Desolate ways is a masterpiece probably Richard Brunelle's finest work with the band! \m/

Just opened & played my copy. It is warped & plays with surface noise / clicks on the quiet "Doomsday Celebration". General sound is ok for me, but i'm missing clarity and nice upfrontness here, the lower mids somehow muddy things.

The album is a rather delicate work, despite all the superficial brutality...

In fact, this is an extraordinary and intellectual musical canvas, woven from complex rhythmics, exorbitant originality of compositional structures and original melody, together permeated with a warm lamp sound and an otherworldly aura. Yes, this is a classic work in the genre of Death Metal, which rightfully have its title. This is the result of painstaking and focused creative work. The compositions are clearly verified and do not contain a single useless note.

I would not like banal comparisons, but "Blessed Are the Sick" is like an aged wine that gets better from year to year. A wonderful album, one of a kind. There is more and more music coming out over the years. And the previously collected works of the Morbid Angel have remained an unsurpassed classic since the year of its release, remaining both the history of the genre, and a kind "study guide" for new bands, and a source of inspiration for many listeners.

I probably won't say anything new, but the design uses a painting by the Belgian artist Jean Delville "The Treasures of Satan" (you can see about a hundred of his works at the link https://artchive.ru/jeandelville/works . The Belgian symbolist artist would have known that his works would sell tens of thousands of copies on CDs and T-shirts with the rock band logo... So Morbid Angel acted as popularizers of classical painting! =)

This reissue from Earache is done very well - a colorful gatefold, excellent FDR mastering. For many many years, I had a CDin my collection, and during the period of quite frequent listening, a certain familiar feeling from this album developed. After listening to the FDR version... the album seemed to be heard for the first time. The music is usual, but it sounds different. Some things began to play with new colors, some details, some accents. Perhaps this is the best sound of this album at all. FDR mastering sounds quieter than usual, but there is a certain chamber effect. Of course, you can turn up the volume level, but you will still listen to the details. And it is at this moment that the magic happens... when there is nothing going on around except music...

Mine didn’t have lyrics in the lyric sheet, it’s just the pictures. Record sounds great though, cover art is high quality.

Bought this recently and can honestly say I am not disapointed! outstanding mastering job and as others have said before this album wont sound better than this. Two small complains though: my copy was brand new and sealed but it didn't have the sticker on the A side of the vinyl (it didn't even have any signal of any glue residue, so it doesn't seem it fell off). Lastly, the vinyl was sligthly warped (nothing too serious but this always bother me).

I guess I was expecting a bit more from this release. I love early Morbid Angel, although Abominations and Covenant are my favourites, Blessed was the first album of theirs I bought and one of the first death metal albums I ever owned.
It is definitely the best the album has ever sounded but my copy has plenty of crackles, lucky they are only noticable in the quiet parts which are few and far between. There is good separation of the instruments, or at least good for a release like this one.
The vinyl is flat whish is a lot better than the banana shaped thing I got with my Abominations FDR vinyl.
The gatefold is a complete waste of time, just a large picture of the band so I wish I hadn't removed the plastic covering as suggested below.
Still, I'm really happy with the release and it's nice to have on vinyl once again.
Definitely worth purchasing

This is probably the best sounding morbid angel vinyl I own

I just got my copy, all I have to say is that it is one of the best sounding death metal records I own. Remastering is brilliant, all instruments are clear and well separated. Haven't listened to BATS like this. A must have!

This FDR release completely tears souls apart. Can't say if it compares to the original because I've never heard it, but these FDR reissues create a real wall of sound that no fan could be disappointed with. Easily one of the best sounding death metal albums ever produced, in huge part because of Tom Morris' incredible attention to detail and dedication to musical integrity.