My last few reviews for this month comprised a trio of deadly, hostile and wholly rabid releases where multiple sonic stab wounds were inflicted during the listening experience. Beginning with US abomination Abhomine, headed up by Pete Helmkamp whose auditory vision is one of barbaric wrath and convulsing cruelty. Even though this is dubbed as a full length it spans about 23 minutes, indeed the debut was only 26 minutes also. That being said everything about this release is intense where the listener is thrust into a time warp of rancid old school proto death that sends bone scraping savagery down your throat on opener “Heresy Pulpit”. The primitive and rawness in the sound is always one I like, where the guitar work has a virtual demo like quality, but of course the clarity is completely upfront. As the opener carves gouges of caustic insanity it leads into “Infidel And Unclean” where the primal ferocity intensifies via a feral blackness that infests the song.
“Gogamgoz” is a grinding mortar of buzzsaw riffing, pulsating bass and septic vocalisations where each intonation sounds like its being shoved down your gullet to choke on the sonic phlegm this album exudes by the bucket load. At the beating putrefying heart are hints of very old Venom, and I mean first album and the early singles here, where the rancidity gelatinises within the flensing riffs that corrupt without mercy. The speed surge of “Saracen” is balanced by riff irruptions as the song scuttles verminously with gutter crawling inhumanity leaving only “Progeny Devoid” to wholly defile you. Again the storming gush in power is spiteful as the savagery produces a ferocity and wildness that is animalistic yet highly controlled.
There will be few albums of such grotesquery deathliness to cross your mouldy path as this, every spewing nuance is executed with homicidal delight making this a fine debauched delve into diabolical death metal.
(8.5/10 Martin Harris)
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