Album Review: Abhorration - Demonlatry
Reviewed by Patrick O'Reilly
This summer I was fortunate to be able to visit Norway on holiday and one of the places we visited was Bergen home of Appolon records store. Whilst browsing there I made conversation with two local metal fans, bonding over a love of classic death metallers Mortification, the shirt of which adorned one of the metalhead youths. I told them of new up and coming death metal bands from the UK and they regaled me with tales of a new wave of old school death coming out of Norway which revered the old Gods and preached intensity, brutality and speed.
Abhorration are one of these bands and are ridiculously old school in their approach. Riffs are hyper fast like Slayer on Speed; solos are a blur of noise screeching and wailing in the style of Morbid Angel’s iconic leads and drums blast and pound with double bass underpinning everything!
I was especially impressed with the vocals, a frenzied rasp that sound on the verge of packing up at any given moment but just manage to keep on to the end of the track, before beginning again and again and again.
I loved all the tracks but particularly enjoyed track three ‘Spawn of an Abhorrent Entity’ which opens and closes in brooding fashion with a hyper blast permeating the inner recesses.
Fans of old school, frenzied Death will find joyous communion in this album, its lightning-fast riffs searing themselves into your brain. Embrace the darkness of Abhorration and be transported to dark, decrepit crypts where evil spirits dwell and abound in ritual worship of the metals of death, thrash and black!!
