In 1992, music-industry legend Irving Azoff went out for ice cream with Gunter Ford, manager of the Florida death-metal band Morbid Angel, to discuss a possible signing. "The actual negotiations took 10 minutes," Ford told author Albert Mudrian in the extreme-metal history Choosing Death. "Irving asked me what kind of ice cream I wanted and we finished the deal." It was official: Ford's
This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Morbid Angel’s ‘Covenant’: How the Band’s Major Label Debut Raised the Bar for Extreme Metal