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Review by: Necrogoregrinder | 03/06/2006 13:33:00
Code: BB006
Running Time: 41:48
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Musically this is a massacre, as foreseen. Maybe not very obscure but fast and with a double thick vocal attack which sometimes shift into a long "ree". Abysmal Torment plays Brutal Death Metal, with lots of consistent tempo changes, crazy super-technical drumming, and a clear American direction, however compared to say, Pyaemia or Disgorge, I think they're definitely more straightforward. The good thing is that they have very little or no pure slam parts, but compared to a fast-only band like Deeds of Flesh or Liturgy thay struggle a few inches back. Even if they are real good I feel like something is missing... The mixing is maybe not perfect as I had probably liked the vocals a bit higher (and maybe more guttural, at times it seems the vocals are just distorted by holding the mic down the throat) and the drums recorded a bit lower... but I like the metal pipe sound of the snare drums, and the drummer here is really doing wicked things, with proficient use of cymbals and shit, this really a good musician; I think with a slightly fuller sound and a more compact sound engineering the whole product would have been much heavier.
One special good note goes to the lyrics: they're damn well written. might be their English domination until the sixties left a good mark, but apart from a couple of typos (one of which made its way up to the back cover ("lutrid"?), they're really elluring stories which you can read without having the music in the background (a bit like Broken Hope's but a bit less varied). They're long and with rather long periods, I haven't seen this long lyrics that I remember of since Malevolent Creation's first 2 albums... while all centered on gore topics, they all have individuality, one is about the end of the world, one is about rape, one about mental sickness... they're real good indeed. The final song, "Gratification Through Castration", a song about mass ritual nighttime castration, is obviously a silent tribute to Cannibal Corpse's song "Gutted" from their masterpiece "Butchered at Birth".
Tracks (10): 1 - Relapse into Sickness 2 - Addicted to Smothered Throats 3 - Flayed, Dismembered and Feasted Upon 4 - Wretched Stagnant Blood 5 - Befouled with Zest 6 - Epoch of Methodic Carnage 7 - Death Bound Conundrum 8 - Lurid Iniquity 9 - Battered into Nothingness 10 - Gratification Through Castration