(Dissident Records/Nosebleed Records)
Release date: 1998

Review: The band's bio states Abhorrent started back in 1990 and had 2 demos in 91 & 93. But this is the first time I hear about this band... I must say I'm impressed and this album is just excellent. Abhorrent isn't a common band, I'm not sure how to define their stuff... I think they play dirty metal for sure, but they take it with a lot of humour and inject big doses of many diverse styles in their compositions... you can find grindcore, hardcore, doom, heavy, thrash... sometimes it really sounds like insane parodies, on "Majestic sword" for example, it sounds like a damn funny mix of Black Sabbath, old Slayer, Iron Maiden & Helloween... It doesn't sound stupid, although this particular song is hilarious. But they know how to use their instruments. Guitars are quite low tuned, fucking raw and heavy all the time. Tempos are mostly moderate and very diversified, going together with many rock n' roll and blues guitar parts... but they always return to a hardcore or even grindcore basis, with fast rythms, thrashing riffs, and a few blasts too. They use many type of vocals, but the most numbrous are those low dirty growls and more high pitched funny hardcore ones... they also use many many other humouristic vocals fitting to music styles they parody. No other band comes to my mind when I listen, it's so different than whatever I heard... I would say they're a little like Filthy Christians in a way (they play a F.C. cover version on this cd, so it's probably why I remind them...), Macabre, Blood Duster(most likely on "Str8 outta northcote") or Repulsion(on the grind parts)... It's alot of fun, but Abhorrent is really musical. They do not base their compositions on fast rythms, although they use tight brutal catchy drummings at many judicious moments! This album is swarming with surprises and energy, it's 100 % musical and all the songs are different from each others... The last bonus song is also kinda funny, it sounds like a Red Hot Chilli Pepper song with belchings all over it, and believe me, it's truly disgusting. The colour cover artwork is really cool and original... But only two or three songs have their lyrics printed on it... It's a pity, coz they seem to be damn funny! I'd just say, if you like Filthy Christians and the other bands I talked about in this review, you should also dig this album!

Tracks: 1)Santaz slay 2)Wally 3)Underpants 4)Ultra mong 5)Puddle 6)No 'n' in funk 7)Prune date ferk 8)Majestic sword 9)Rent a cop 10)Love song 11)Cool dude from beyond the grave 12)Blues 13)Naughty 14)Filthy 15)Bastards 16)War sux 17)Ambient

Label Contact: DISSIDENT RECORDS
PO Box 333, Kelvin Grove D.C.
Qld 4059, Australia
E-mail: drecords@ozemail.com.au

ABORTION "Gonna Be Worse" Cd

(Obscene Productions - OBP 059)
Release date: 2003
Running time: 38:47

Review: Slovakian grind/hardcore/thrash/death hybrid... This album is blunt and very speed-oriented but definitely not hyperblasting all the time... There's more of a thrashing approach to song writing than just pure grind, and of course it's not without some wicked bursts of blistering violence here and there. Vocals are a large variety of low growls, some backing raspy sneering, and even alot of low, hardcore type shouts. The lyrics are printed so I tried to keep up with them but it didn't seem like the vocals actually followed the words at all... Anyway, the most obvious influences I picked on are Extreme Noise Terror for some of the vocals and riffs, the hardcore side of Agathocles/Cripple Bastards for the straightforwardness/directness of it all and also Repulsion for some of the old school thrashing grind vibe... Overall, this is an agreeable cd, the band delivers this stuff with assurance and determined strength, in a nice thrashing and chunky way, the sound production is clear and well-defined... Although maybe the band is missing a little bit of raw visceral energy and a few more memorable riffs to become really effective... Anyway, if you like Agathocles on their more crusty hardcore material you might dig Abortion too... Lyrically this is socially aware type fare, just the band stating their opinion on various things... but the band doesn't come off as too serious, there's still a bit of humor in there too... And well, that's about it, just an enjoyable production!

Tracks: 1)Dead Laughter 2)Rebels Getting Older 3)Cancer Wins 4)I’m For Sale 5)The End Is Near 6)Serial Killer Star 7)Not Talk to Communists 8)False Babble 9)A Slave Or A Man? 10)Money Is Your God 11)Keep It Silent! 12)I’m Not Permanently Sick 13)Slut City 14)Pig Power 15)Icky Ficky 16)We All Are Snakes 17)Fucking Ignorant 18)Instant Life 19)Power Of Humour 20)Last Drink 21)Heavy Mental 22)N.W.O. 23)Filth

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Tracks: 1)Smell your cunt 2)Bloody Mary 3)Nipples knees ass cheeks ankles 4)Pull a train 5)Staple your puss lips together 6)Slop hole 7)Crimson smell 8)Wings flew away 9)Menstrual pancake 10)Pussy blood popsicle 11)Diaretic orgasm 12)Honey/Bloody hole/Suck your shit off my dick 13)Puss sores 14)Bloody brown mouse 15)Puss blood pentagram 16)Spraying blood/Blood sprayer 17)Big sags 18)Farm animal hammer 19)Ass over snatch 20)Lubed with blood 21)Tampon tea bad

Tracks: 1)Blood blues 2)Splatterreah 3)Vaginal massaker 4)Don't abuse 5)Nation trust 6)Carbonized 7)Vomit drunk Bart 8)Clean Theline 9)Slaughtered animals 10)Unclean 11)Asshole 12)AZ 70 13)Save the walls 14)What's the matter 15)Know all 16)A.N.I. 17)Police bastards 18)Doom dead 19)Potencial murder 20)3 another A.C. songs 21)Grind bitch 22)MC Donalds 23)Scum 24)Instrumental death 25)Hegedeath 26)Getto kings 27)Suckers on dope 28)Torture 29)Cruelty to animals 30)Deceiver 31) & 32): about 40 other songs...

Label Contact: NOISE VARIATIONS
c/o Ralf Scheffzick
P.O. Box 1169
D-29201 Celle
GERMANY
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