On their debut EP Aberration unleashes a colossal landslide of destructive sounding ambient death metal that comes mercilessly crashing down upon the extreme metal world. This group of abhorrent minded extreme metal musicians conjures up a dark and agonizing sound for about fifteen minutes, so even though this is not an extremely long release, the band does a tremendous job offering listeners plenty of cranial splitting compositions.
Featuring members from Void Rot, Suffering Hour, Tvaer and Nothingness, Aberration is an extreme metal act that constructs death metal in a deafening and oppressive atmospheric fashion. The overall atmosphere on this release is very similar to the album’s cover art and you feel as though you are drifting through a cloud of unfathomable horror that messes with your sanity. The guitar riffs on this album create such haunting landscapes that suffocate all light as the music evolves, while the drum parts violently reverberate throughout the album showing no mercy as they deal out some thunderous sounding rhythms. I personally believe that the vocals provide the most terrifying yet also very hypnotic touch to the overall mix. In the end, the musicianship on this album is not to be ignored and they have a keen sense for songwriting.
The album is divided into three parts, however, the album truly flows from beginning to end without any choppy sections. Again, Aberration is a band that knows how to write and record music from start to finish, thus establishing a strong overall atmospheric presence that never loses its vicious dark edge. There are a lot of bands who fail to achieve this quality and usually end up losing listeners after about ten minutes of sloppy repetitive arrangements.
Production value is such a key component in terms of writing a compelling album and Aberration did a solid job with the production of this release. Right when the album begins you are instantly hooked by the hellish sounding ambience that eventually drags down into a cataclysmic world of mind altering death metal. I thought the second track on the album was where the band really placed great emphasis on creating this insidious sounding environment. I truly believe that the slower more bludgeoning style death metal riffs create a more haunting doom like atmosphere that demands your attention. The third and final section of the album features a consistent amount of relentless sounding aggression, which achieves this climatic feeling as music reaches its hideous and unspeakable end.
Fans who enjoy catastrophic sounding old school death metal that does not hit the repeat button on riffs and drum arrangements that have been done too many times before should definitely check this album out. Aberration’s unforgiving creative vision really stands out on this entire release and the band’s ability to hammer out extremely vivd and punishing arrangements is what I think makes this an impressive debut EP.
Aberration will be working with Sentient Ruin on the release of the album with a release date of January 15, 2021. The way I see it, 2021 is starting off to a solid start musically with one abominable sounding death metal release from Aberration. Let’s just hope everything gets better this year, because last year sucked worse than Morbid Angel’s “Illud Divinum Insanus.”
Check out a track from the album below:
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Great review Robby!
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