ABHORRATION — Demonolatry (review)

ABHORRATION — Demonolatry album cover Album · 2024 · Death Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
4/5 ·
UMUR
"Demonolatry" is the debut full-length studio album by Norwegian, Oslo based death metal act Abhorration. The album was released through Invictus Productions in September 2024. Abhorration formed in 2020 and released the "After Winter Comes War" demo in 2021. The lineup includes (among others) Nekromantheon and Obliteration guitarist Arild Myren Torp.

Featuring 6 tracks and a total playing time of 36:49 minutes, Abhorration waste no time getting the party started, sandblasting the listener´s skin with album opener "Chamber of Agilarept"...what a raw, ultra fast-paced, and intense death metal assault on the ears. Think a more filthy and savage version of early Morbid Angel and you´re halfway there. The rawness and intensity of the sound and the performances are through the roof, but Abhorration are technically well playing too and deliver a precise although still organic attack. Vicious, brutal, and unrelentingly aggressive are valid words to describe the sound of "Demonolatry". Other than Morbid Angel, who are the most obvious influence, I´d mention artists like Angelcorpse, Repugnant, and a contemporary act like Oxygen Destroyer as valied references too (and of course the usual suspects in Possessed and Morbid Saint).

The sandpaper raw blackened death/thrash vocals, the fast-paced powerful drumming, and the many brilliant riffs and screaming chromatic solos. This should be a treat to fans of the genre. Personally it gives me hope that artists still exist who prove themselves capable of delivering music in this style and in such high quality as Abhorration do. There´s a sad shortage of this type of music in a world which more an more seems to favor cold, mechanical, and sterile sounding death metal. A 4 star (80%) rating is deserved.
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UMUR wrote:
2 hours ago
Such a vicious aggressive assault...right down my alley.
Nightfly wrote:
2 hours ago
What a great album! Bought it.

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