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Abode of the Departed Souls

Look at the cover, doesn’t it look primitive? doesn’t it look familiar? doesn’t it look like anything we reviewed last month, as well as last year and the year before that. So, it looks ridiculous and uninteresting and is released by Vic Records. Can it be that it is one of those silly album they have dug up from a pile of albums that didn’t sell the first time they were released, they do that a lot that label. But you’d be wrong if you think that, it is actually a newly produced album, the second from this band. Their first album was released in 1997 so they can hardly be described as very hard working despite the fact that the band has been active for the entire time between the albums.

Brutal death metal, ”hyper speed blasts, ultra brutal vocals, extremely fast and tight drums and guitars, tons of killer riffs and harmonies.” Or so say the label. Reality say that it is quite monotonous chugging death metal with grunty guttural vocal sounds a basement type production that sounds as unmodern as an Edison cylinder phonograph. I think we have heard more modern stuff on a washboard convention. Vocals are said to be extremely brutal but these are just guttural and monotone. But they are sensible coming to the playing time, just over 30 minutes but the variation could have been a lot better.

If you can listen to this album in its entirety without falling asleep from boredom you are a fan of the primitive death metal genre and a part of the target audience for this album. I don’t think anyone but fans of said genre will like this particularly much as it is quite a dreary album, monotonous, boring vocals and above else it lacks novelty as listening to this for the first time it is not like hearing something you haven’t heard before. I hate predictability and the I also think that the value of a new album is that it brings new life to the music scene. It is not good but not bad either just indifferent.

Are you someone who wants to hear the same thing over and over and over and over and over and over again? and are you thrilled by guttural ridiculous growling in monotonous music? if the answer to those questions is yeah, then by all means get this album it will probably appeal to you as great music appeals to me. In the end I would say that it is not bad but the answer is still no thanks!

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