After
a couple of line up changes, Abominator are back as a 4-piece at long
last! After a sinister intro you'll be wiped away by a blow of intense
death/black metal ("Dimensions of a Mammon Enshroud"),
followed by a truly wonderful punishing riff opening "Cascading
Carnage"; this is the top of the album as it also includes
very guttural vocals, and primarily utilizes death metal vocals, riffs
and solos, but indeed there're 2 different moments in which a true black
scale riff comes out as well.
Speed reigns supreme in "Necrosexual Thrust", making
Abominator deign ensigns of a genre made popular by the defunct Angelcorpse,
who would enjoy the wicked riffing carved in this song, while "Intoxicated
with Satanic Hate" is one of the most black-metal songs of
the whole CD. Another two compositions deserving to be mentioned are
the title track, rife with fast-as-inferno drumming, restless unmerciful
guitar slaying, to tell the truth quite shredded and several kinds of
vocals and "Hymn to Baphomet", in which the drumming
is supported by early-Deicide echoes in the riffing, while Black overcomes
Death for the last time in "The Ultimate Ordinance of Obliteration".
However, these songs can cope with the incredibly massive ones in "Subversives
for Lucifer", and confirm Chris Volcano and Andrew Undertaker's
creature as one of Australia's heaviest and most determined bands.
MARKUS GANZHERRLICH - 19/11/03
Discography:
-Prelude to
World Funeral (Split Cd with Mornaland - Path to Enlightenment records,
1997)
-Damnation's Prophecy (Necropolis records, CD/LP 1999)
-Subversives for Lucifer (Osmose prod., CD/LP 2001)
-Nuctemeron Descent (Osmose prod., CD/LP 2003)
