When I was about thirteen years old, I crashed a jet ski at full speed and was jettisoned into the air. I flew hard and fast, and my last thought before crashing into the water was simply “Shit” and then everything went dark as I plunged into the cold depths below. When I first heard Abstracter’s “Abominion”, I felt something close to when I crashed that jet ski, only instead of water, my body was careening into a wall of grating, bowel-exploding sound that I knew would inevitably engulf me and -if luck would have it- shit me out in one piece. I saw a track, clicked ‘play’, and had that same exact single word reaction as before, when I thought I would certainly die in mid-air above that lake: again, simply “Shit.”
A hideous, crushing effort, Abominion is a corrosive amalgam of sludge, black metal, death metal, and more, all ground up and funneled into a warhead aimed directly at this world and everyone inhabiting it. Ominious, devastating, and furious to the extreme, Abominion is perhaps among one of the heaviest albums I’ve heard in recent memory. Immerse yourself in bloody ruin: listen and support below:
Abominion by Abstracter
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