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Abaddon Incarnate: Nadir
11/01/07 || Global Domination
This review was written by ex-staffer/cocksmoker Kampfar:
Hail chaos!
Let me introduce you to Abaddon Incarnate, Irish ambassadors of sonic violence. My knowledge about the Irish metal scene isn’t the best; pretty abysmal, to be exact. Apart from the band in question, I’m only familiar with Primordial. Just to make sure that everybody understands how little I know about the scene, I would like to add that I haven’t even been able to sort out when Abaddon Incarnate formed. The metal archives claims it was 1989, while the band’s homepage says it was 1994. If the Metal Archives are right in this instance, I guess that monstrous proportions of dope were consumed in the early stages of Abaddon Incarnate’s career.
Time to talk about something I know more about.
If you are one of those easy listening death metal fans, you should spare your eyes the strain and quit reading this review now. Many bands claim to be brutal but only a few are. Hails go to Abaddon Incarnate for being one of them. Unlike most other bands in the genre, Abaddon Incarnate doesn’t try to lull or lure you into conformity before unleashing their attack. No samples, no wimpy speeches. “Nadir” starts out with a full-frontal attack in the form of “I will nail you in”. If you can stomach this song, you should be in for a good time. At first listen the whole record may sound like an impossible mountain to climb, though (even for seasoned fans of extreme metal). But if you give it a couple of spins, I’m sure you’ll realize that even though the record is indeed fucking furious, it also holds a great deal of variation. It’s just that whatever these guys do, it sounds brutal.
A landmine trap that many so-called brutal death metal bands put both their feet in is the use of processed vocals. As an effect it’s fucking fine. But when used on a whole record, you feel like offering them a nice warm cup of shut the fuck up. Abaddon Incarnate avoids this trap with ease, using processed vocals on very rare occasion. The rest of the vocal contributions consist of sneers, screams, double screams, perverse sounds, and then some. Utterly brilliant, even I feel outclassed here.
Before you start wondering if I have taken a whole week’s ration of anti-depressants, it’s time to come up with a negative remark. What I have relies on the songs sounding a bit too similar at times. Fortunately it doesn’t hurt the overall experience much, as Abaddon Incarnate has their shit together most of the time. They are pretty much like me there. As a final remark, I would like to hail the gritty production. This record can definitively blow the roof off your house, but at the same time it has a certain feeling of underground to it. Well produced, but nowhere near polished, just fucking powerful.
Give hate a chance, buy this album!
(Abaddon Incarnate could very well be labeled as grind core but I decided to go for death metal.)
8,5 dead unionists out of 10.
- Information
- Released: 2001
- Label: Sentinel records
- Website: www.abaddonincarnate.com
- Band
- Steve Maher: vocals, guitar
- Bill Whelan: guitar, vocals
- Cory Sloan: bass, vocals
- Olan Parkinson: drums
- Tracklist
- 01. I will nail you in
- 02. False?
- 03. They use dark forces
- 04. Unclean
- 05. Aeons of our dying
- 06. Throne of the whore
- 07. Funeral procession
- 08. Traumatic stress solution
- 09. Hunger allowed no choice
- 10. Transgressor
- 11. Victory or annihilation
- 12. Scene of the crime
- 13. Progeny
- 14. Where’s my axe?
- 15. Come onto me
- 16. She hates with a marble heart
- 17. Seditious thoughts, part 1
- 18. Seditious thoughts, part 2
- 19. Judgement was passed before I was born
- 20. Hamunaptra (city of the dead)
- 21. Bonebag
- 22. ...and then the world bleed
- 23. Pogrom
- 24. Rot