The
Australian scene seems to have a knack for pernicious, militant, extreme metal
musicianship, sometimes collectively termed as ‘war metal’ sporting monikers
such as Bestial Warlust, Gospel of the Horns and the cult-figures Sadistik Exekution to name a few. As such, things are pretty simple with
Abominator’s latest offering: blast away and tear our eardrums to shreds in the
process. Essentially this is eight tracks of sheer mayhem, which spew out their
hateful spite in all directions driven by scything riffs that reek of Angel
Corpse and a pummeling double-bass seemingly stuck in blast mode. The song
riff-o-logy stems from that gritty offshoot of death metal which remains
un-moved by the technical coagulations and rhythmical grooves introduced to the
genre by the likes of Suffocation and Cannibal Corpse adhering instead to a
more traditional, thrashy semblance. Abominator’s musicianship on the album is
tight and convincing, assimilating elements from death metal’s most blasphemous
acts such as Morbid Angel, Incantation and of course Angel Corpse with an added
tinge of black metal’s razor-sharp aggression and thrash metal’s raw delivery
to rev up the overall outcome. A furnace of rage-driven profanity is how one
might describe ‘The Eternal Conflagration‘, spitefully angular in its delivery and
appropriately chaotic in rhythmical dynamics. A decent effort if I do say so
myself.
(originally written for Tartarean Desire - 2006?)
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