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Abominable Putridity - In the End of Human Existence

A necessity for any slam enjoyer - 95%

deathmetal69_, January 15th, 2024

This is UNDENIABLY one of the best slam albums ever conceived. Along with many other classic and genre-defining albums within the slam genre, Abominable Putridity’s crushing debut eternally remains one of the best of all time.

This album is filled to the brim with GROOVE, tasteful drums, and pretty much the most disgusting and wet vocals you’ll probably ever hear. Intracranial Parasite as an opener couldn't have been a better choice. After the cool intro sample that gives you a preview to the gloomy, harsh, sad, and apocalyptic atmosphere, the song starts off with an awesome groovy riff and swift drum pattern behind it. Followed by a pause and loud snare hit, and then double kicking away while the groovy ass slams from the guitars absolutely devastate you. This small section of the first song is already so awesome and captivating. It makes my head MOVE and gives me the stank face. The pure groove and badassery that this album already has not even 2 minutes in is so goddamn awesome. The entire album is like this, very groovy and catchy songs that’ll be stuck in your head for a while. It’s too good.

I gotta point out especially that this album has a very melancholic feel. I never really thought about this aspect until now. The guitars have this really droopy, unvaried sound (in a good way) that really matches the vibe this album is giving off. It fits very well with the title “In the End of Human Existence”, and the cover art showing people decaying/dying/etc. The same could also be said for the alternative artwork. The music but specifically the guitar tone very much matches what an “end of human existence” would feel like, specifically an apocalyptic one. It’s a sad and harsh theme that simultaneously kicks so much ass and has a good energy to it. It’s crazy that SLAM can be atmospheric. That’s what this masterpiece of an album gives us. It’s such a satisfying treat.

The vocals are pretty much my favorite aspect of this album. Vladmir's vocals are nasty, guttural as can be, juicy, gurgling, disgusting. Absolutely perfect! This is what I love and always aim to look for in my slamming brutal death metal. God tier vocals. He doesn't really have a defined vocal structure other than just meaty gurgling away in every measure making sure the best areas are filled with his gutturals, but that’s not a bad thing. Some slam does 0 IQ gurgling horribly while lacking direction, but on this album the vocals fit extremely well and sound great alongside the droopy and sad guitar tone. Vladimir is a damn god tier vocalist and one of my favorites in brutal death and generally. Matti Way is awesome as hell obviously, but I wish we could have gotten more from Vladmir in Abominable Putridity.

As I mentioned earlier, these songs are all fantastic. They have good structure and they breathe very fluently. I have to keep reiterating about the groove this album has. Slam is already groovy in of itself, but Abominable Putridity really amped it up and stepped up the slam game to even higher heights with this awesome and absolutely devastating guitar tone that’s very satisfying to hear. The tone is also very thick and heavy which is obviously fantastic and adds more to the god tier factor the album has.

These swift and hip-hop influenced song patterns and structures are extremely catchy and good. Like Entrails Full of Vermin for example, the riff is very straightforward and pummeling, and again; groovy. I'd say the same for all the other tracks, but I'd just be here repeating myself over and over. The main point that I'm explaining here is that the songs are so greatly written, have amazing and catchy structures, aren't boring, and are extremely groovy. It’s impossible to not move your head to the captivating beat when listening to anything off this masterpiece.

This album is severely overlooked and overhated. I do get why it's hated, but the reason why people hate it is the exact reason why I and many other slam enthusiasts love this. It's disgustingly perfect in all aspects. The drum tones can sound off-putting to a novice, but slammers and veteran fans of this record know that the drums sound awesome and fit very well with the guitars. Melancholic droopy guitars paired with a sticky-gushy-sounding kick drum and a solid pummeling snare, it’s so so good and pleasing to hear together. These factors really complete the filth this record portrays.

I have pretty much zero issues with this album. But if I did have any minor complaints, it’d be that the kick drum needs much more power in its sound and needs to be louder, as well as the drums overall sounding a liiittle bit too unnatural. And that some (but very few) songs/sections tend to feel a teeny bit lacking compared to other songs. But those complaints are so minor that they may as well not matter in the first place because this album as a whole is so phenomenal and iconic.

In The End of Human Existence is an amazing and an ideal slamming brutal death metal album, and only some people are able to realize that. It’s a super super fun album that'll get you moving and groovin’ with lots of energy and good vibes. Pure greatness, catchy as hell. This is an ESSENTIAL slam album that every slam fan should know. Listen immediately and getcha groove on!

This Album Blows - 10%

metalhammerslammer, January 16th, 2020

This album blows. This album blows a lot. This album uses the same beat with the same rhythm throughout. It's so boring it put my granny asleep. If you can make it through the entire album I applaud you. The run time of this piece of drivel is felt so hard. Which might have been the goal, because it plays as if Satan himself has forced you into putting this album on once again. Although the more logical part of me knows that this band was at least halfway attempting to put out an enjoyable record. If Satan happens to give you a choice between listening to this shitshow, or literally anything else, choose the latter.

The entire disc has the same vocal sound to it and what is presented is rough at best. There are absolutely no variations in sound on the entire album. It is one droning note. However, it is not as if this band has nothing to offer vocally, their album The Anomalies Of Artificial Origin has much-improved vocals that have rhythm and inflection. None of that talent was seen on this record in the slightest. On this shit piece, the vocals we are subjected too has an inhuman sound. Which sometimes is a good thing, but here is not. This album's vocals like one long consecutive fart from a prolapsed anus. It is painful to get through even though this album is only agonizing 26 minutes.

For you to even have a chance for you to understand what this dude ("Vladimir" as he would like to be called) is putting down, you must have the booklet that came from the failure of a record and study it like you would an ochem 3 textbook. This Vladimir dude has absolutely no enunciation. He just drools out whatever diarrhea comes to the front of his cortex I mean, what kind of lyrics are these anyways?

Wires drilled into my head
Tubes inserted in my neck
Toxins pumped into my veins
This treatment's inhumane


What the fuck is any of that supposed to mean anyway? No shit that treatment would be so inhumane. So is this album. This album makes you feel as described. Vladimir is just literally shiting out what ever "metal" thing he can think of. The dude might as well be reading a children's book because whatever tumbles out of his mouth sounds like it should have come out of the other end.

The drummer consistently sounds off-beat with the guitars. It sounds like he is doing his own album and the rest of the band has to follow whatever he puts down. In addition, it sounds as if the dude is only working with three drums. He is so incredibly untalented and sounds like he picked up his first drum sticks in Guitar Center before waltzing to the recording studio. His work is so bland and he can't even do the most basic role of a drummer, to keep the beat. Let alone add anything interesting to listen to behind the guitars. Speaking of guitars, the guitars are uninteresting at best. He sounds as if he only uses 5 frets on his guitar. Solos are nonexistent on this album. Realizing that solos are not a staple of the genre is one thing, however, there is nothing on this piece to add interest to riffs or break up the album. Speaking of the riffs, it appears as if they only wrote one for the entire album. These dudes thought they could actually just cheese this whole thing out without you noticing. Did I mention this thing is only 26 minutes already? These guys couldn't even find the length of an episode of The Office of Abominable Putridity branded metal to shit out. The entire record has three power chords and leaves the listener wanting to shut the damn racket off.

The only redeeming qualities of this album are the theatrical sound clips that pepper the album. These are clearly stock, however, and are bought from some studio. It's impossible these guys had any say as to what these bit were. Even the label realized these guys had nothing to actually say and made an executive decision to add these. Then, after we are treated with these bits, its back to the same stuff that litters the entire disappointment

Give this album a listen, and then listen to The Anomalies Of Artificial Origin, you'll understand then why this album clearly sounds like a first effort.

Interesting Sound For a Slam Album - 23%

Metalhead1997, September 12th, 2016

Russian brutal death metal band Abominable Putridity is one of my favorite bands besides Ingested, Analepsy, Crepitation, and Epicardiectomy, but this album they released nearly 10 years ago is just boring to me.

The songs sound very similar to each other and some of the song lengths are almost the same, as well. The sound hurts my ears most of the time because of the way the guitars were tuned and modified and the vocals are too weak. Also, the vocals seem to be drowned out by the guitars and the drums are barely even present. The only song I can tolerate is "Blindfold Surgery", but it doesn't save the album.

A lot of the songs seem instrumental, too. "Victims Stuffed With Nails" for instance, is mainly just the band jamming out and whenever I listen to it, I can barely, if at all, hear Vladimir over everything else. Another thing is that the song titles are weird and sound weak and amateurish. One of the songs I can't listen to without feeling a bit queasy is "Dissected From Within." It's nothing more than the sound of squishing flesh and organs and other disgusting shit.

The lyrics to the songs are also weak, too. "Blindfold Surgery" has some pretty cheesy ones in it and you can barely make out exactly what Vladimir is saying. In fact, the vocals on the album seem to blend in with the guitars, bass and drums! You have to have dog hearing to hear the vocals that are hidden inside!

This album is good at least for effort, but the mixing is indeed an abominable putridity. I've heard much better albums than this in slamming death metal, but this album should be shelved and forgotten by any and all Abominable Putridity fans.

Rating: 23%.

A mixed bag - 59%

Erasofmisery, October 7th, 2015
Written based on this version: 2007, CD, Lacerated Enemy Records (Slipcase)

I am a huge fan of Abominable Putridity's The Anomalies of Artificial Origin, partly because it is such a huge improvement and leap from In the End of Human Existence.This album has a couple pluses, but some very cringy areas which hinder it and don't give it a great name.

First off, the vocals. They are very boring and monotonous, and I understand this is slam, but some vocalists either use patterns and techniques, or don't get very boring. The vocals here are a drag to listen to but at the same time still very low and brutal. If this guy had maybe two other ranges to choose from, the music would be much more bearable, especially since the instrumentals aren't too bad.

Next is the guitars, which sound very typical for slam. They mostly just chug and use slam riffs, as well as a few tremolo like parts. It isn't amazing or outstanding, but it's not bad. There's just nothing special about it. It's slam, so of course it is meant to sound brutal, which it does, but it could be better. One thing I do love, is the guitar tone. It sounds very gritty, dirty, and badass. Perfect for a slam album.

The drumming I'd say is my favorite part. For a good amount of the album, he doesn't do too much but there are a couple of very sick blast beats this guy pulls off and some nice patterning. I think it is clear that he is a talented drummer, but it is not shown well enough on this album. Luckily he goes to his full capabilities and shows how fucking amazing he truly is on TAOAA.

The bass is only heard on a couple breif pauses right before some of the slams on the songs Entrails Full of Vermin, Skin Removal, and Throat Fisting Abortion. It is barely audible, but when it is heard, I really love the tone on it. It sounds very clean and not distorted, something you wouldn't expect from a slam band. Each song sounds very much the same, mainly because of the vocals, but I think the instruments themselves have the same issue. The interlude, Dissected From Within is a very disturbing sample of someone's guts literally getting ripped out, which actually helps add more emotion and mood to the album. This album is pretty much your average slam record, with a couple parts which are decent but for the most part need improvement. Definitely not a great album, but it does have a few satisfying parts which have lots of potential.

What's the Cyrillic for 'zombie jock apocalypse'? - 50%

autothrall, January 2nd, 2013

So, as I was planning to roll out my series of mosh-oriented workout videos, painstakingly transferred to the good old VHS format, I was contacted by an international patent organization that the idea had already been snapped up by a group of Moscovians working under the corporate handle of Abominable Putridity. Angered at the news, I nonetheless sought out their first film, In the End of Human Existence, to get a closer look at the competition. Suffice to say, there's very little chance I'll be breaking into this market any time soon, because these Russians seem to have a knack for knuckle sandwich metal that affirms the buzz surrounding them. My only hope is that internal squabbling or poor sales might tear them apart, that I might later sweep in like a vulture of brocore fitness and stake my claim on this emergent trend in entertainment...

Abominable Putridity, at least on this debut, provides a definitive blueprint for brutal slam death techniques, albeit a generic one that's about as interesting as arranging vocabulary blocks in kindergarten. Though the production levels are nothing to scoff at, and the musicianship is about as taut as you'd expect, there are simply no ideas here which haven't been lifted off about 15 years worth of brutal death breakdowns, and then rendered down to the simple principle of palm muted belligerence entirely devoid of melody or truly interesting chord progressions. Take a few Suffocation, Cannibal Corpse or Earth Crisis chugs, and then base about 23 minutes of music around just these. That's not to imply that the Russians are necessarily bad at carving out their niche on this debut, it's just that there are too few unexpected dressings, glimmers of hope or individual songs that distinguish themselves from one another (with one exception). In the End of Human Existence is damn fucking consistent, I'll grant it that, but in this case I'm not using that adjective in a strictly complementary sense...because musically this is as memorable as tying your shoelaces.

The primary concern is the riffing configurations, which are little more than the same half-dozen chords or notes re-arranged into similar, bouncing structures that creep along at half-step intervals on the fretboard. Once in a blue moon they'll break out some wilder, open chords, or even a small handful of more clinical harmonic patterns to the notation, but the lion's share of the material here is moving at a mid-paced groove and then occasionally lapsing into some slower chug, very often embellished with the same end-phrase squealing that has become so uninspired and drone-like to the genre. It's not that Abominal Putridity do not encourage some small degree of variation, wherein plodding, neanderthal numbers like "Entrails Full of Vermin" are marginally contrasted against the roughneck tank-tread rumble of "Victims Stuffed with Nails", but the rhythmic dynamism is just not broad enough to fill even a short album like this.

There is next to nothing in terms of atmospheric flourish, and I can only imagine, for example, just how much a little of that immediate, wondrous industrial resonance of the titular outro track would have improved the central songwriting if it had been induced to several of the bridges. Or what some eerie leads or melodies might have accomplished above the churning, fist-balling flesh of the rhythm guitars. The bass is clearly felt through the recording, but it never does anything besides cling to the guitar patterns...even a few fifths or individualistic runs could have dramatically upped the ante. Drums are mixed with an almost mechanical din to them, but otherwise they offer the proper balance of muscular double-bass rolls and grooves, and heavily favor the kicks and toms to the weaker cymbal strikes. The vocals are an ominous frog guttural which, to its credit, never go so far over the top that they reduce the material to silliness; in fact, they fit the notation like a cock to a condom, but despite their broad and clamorous depth, their bouncing, often hip hopping syllabic are decidely monotonous beyond just a few lines.

I enjoyed a few of the minor aesthetics here, like the band logo, John Zig's great zombie apocalype artwork, the ghoulish interlude "Dissected from Within", and the aforementioned industrial/ambient closer, but despite its brevity, In the End of Human Existence is a slog to experience in more than brief spurts. The song titles and themes are little more than paraphrased from many of the group's forebears, and the musical structure is all too samey without providing intense or interesting riff progressions so the listener can ignore that fact. In truth, there are a handful of bands out there like Kraanium or Ingested who have succeeded in much the same base formula, so it's not impossible to pull off; but both seem superior at putting the notes together. I can't say I really developed much of a hate-on for the Russians' debut. It's not as if the band is incompetent. Meathead metal mission accomplished. But considering the level of hype once surrounding it (at least in this particular niche of a niche), I expected much more than this. Time to return some videotapes.

-autothrall
http://www.fromthedustreturned.com

Inscrutable and remote slam, but worth the effort - 70%

c_zar, December 30th, 2012

Both full Abominable Putridity full lengths are cool, though they are very, very different. I have learned to favor this earlier release over their newer, significantly more technical stuff. The mood of In the End of Human Existence is rich and the logic is remote.

This debut LP, which is repeatedly shat upon on this site, has many hidden charms and takes some real effort to appreciate. It is very controlled music and worth spending the time to understand, though it’s easy to see how people could listen a couple of times and write it off as boring.

These chugging slamming death metal songs lurch and shift, fluidly, but inscrutably, with what seems like little regard for entertainment or the rock foundation of metal. But this is clearly the design of its authors, not a flaw. There is so much muted chugging and rhythmic shifting that whenever a slightly catchy riff or a sustained chord appears, it feels like a luxurious anomaly compared to its bleak, relentless surroundings. A lot of these tunes yield one really memorable hook, such as those heard in the concluding portions of album highlights, “Blindfold Surgery” and “Sphacelated Nerves,” either of which are perfect examples of the slamming death metal aesthetic, though they are not as accessible as most of the bands I dig in this style.

My appreciation of Anomalies of an Artifical Origin remains containable, but the obscure logic, dark mood and slow power of In the End of Human Existence makes a more lasting impression to me and likley to people who are willing to do some work to understand it. It has a serious-and perhaps unknowable--purpose and is in some ways is a death metal equivalent of something like Mayhem superb Wolf's Lair Abyss in that it seems wholly uninterested in rock or fun or whether you like it or not. It is the result of another type of thought process.

Patient fans of death metal should investigate this well-recorded and obtuse effort. Just don’t it expect it to grab you straight away.

It'd Be Hard to Create a More Boring Slam Album - 32%

MutantClannfear, September 21st, 2011

It amazes everyone I know, even myself, that I dislike this band. I mean, this is supposed to be the pinnacle of slam death metal! The be-all, end-all to the genre! Puts Cephalotripsy and Devourment to shame and slams the hardest and took my virginity and yadda yadda blah blah shut the fuck up. I'm not sure who exactly is this band's target audience, but if I were to take a wild guess, I'd say it's the casual fans of slam death, the ones who listen to it for the heaviness instead of the riffs. If they get their rocks off to this sort of stuff, all the power to them, but this is not now, and probably never will be my cup of tea.

Now keep in mind I'm not someone who requests that each band I listen to mix 47 genres together, lest I write it off as "trite and unoriginal". But Jesus Christ, you'd be hard-pressed to find a more generic band than Abominable Putridity. Slam bands aren't exactly known for their originality, and I can understand that, but most make at least some effort to distinguish themselves from the crowd in some way, be that intentional through some weird influences, or unintentional by playing your music with the rawest, most amateurish production job ever. This band has nothing going for it in terms of memorability - in fact, this is probably the band where every negative stereotype about slam death metal went and piled itself up into a ball that accumulated since 1999, over eight years, and finally manifested itself in the form of one of the most atrocious albums ever. (I know that atrocity is something I usually praise in a review, but there's nothing to get behind this band - they blow their entire act at face value and I'm 90% sure there's nothing of Enmity-esque value to be gathered from this.)

The production is extremely typical slam-esque stuff: bassy, flat, and generally boring - imagine Cephalotripsy without their treble and you've got the picture. For the most part, slams on this album are extremely repetitive Molesting the Decapitated rejects that have a 16th-note triplet thrown somewhere in the middle of an 8th-note measure. Sometimes these "slams" (read: BREAKDOWNS) even resort to fast, 32nd-note chugs that don't do much but remove the essential sense of fading from a slam note that makes it catchy; anyone who's listened to Suicide Silence knows how well these sorts of "slams" work as a rhythmic element. The blast beats on the album are a bit more tolerable than the rest of the album and remind me of bands like Mortician and Torsofuck, but are still generally boring since the guitarists don't really accommodate for the new sense of speed (their modus operandi during a blast beat, instead of "play a more spastic, insane riff coupled with a few pinch harmonics", is "play the riff we were playing moments beforehand at double-tempo"), and as a result they seem to waste the opportunity. The drums aren't doing anything interesting stylistically, but they do sound annoyingly mechanical, not to mention they echo throughout the production job whereas everything else is muted like a brick slamming on a table.

The vocals are the kind I really can't stand in brutal death - while I'm all for guttural vocals being as deep as possible, there is a certain point where the vocalist is sacrificing the deep pitch and guttural sound for the quality that makes vocals fun to listen to - originality and the individual touch caused by the vocalist's voice. All natural parts of the this man's voice are stripped away, and unlike Cephalotripsy or Enmity, the result is not outlandish enough to keep me intrigued - it's simply a dry, deep gurgle that repeats itself, sans syllables or tone, for the entire length of the album.

If it makes you feel better, tell me I've reached my brutality threshold. I can't handle stuff this heavy, and in fact I'll change my mind three months from now and give these guys a 100% review! Though that's occurred in the past, I personally don't see that happening this time: this is everything I hate about slam. The bland, almost mechanical predictability and the monotone vocals throw in the towel for me, and the general lack of emotion, melody and originality certainly don't improve my feelings about the band. Avoid this band - your time would be better spent listening to Cephalotripsy, Cerebral Incubation or pretty much any other slam band but this one.

SLAMMYSLAMMY SLAMSLAM - 28%

Iheartmetal, March 11th, 2011

You know those albums where you listen to it for the first time and for a few minutes you think "Yeah, this is pretty cool, I like this!" but then after about 5 minutes you get bored and think "Well, this is bad." This is one of those albums: it's fun for a few minutes of mindless brutality, but after that you realise that this is really quite bad and is incredibly boring.

Abominable Putridity are a band that are not interested in any sort of song diversity and are happy to play an entire album of songs at pretty much the same speed and with nothing differentiating them apart from maybe a slightly different slam section (and there are lots and lots of those on this album) or perhaps a boring, shitty sample. The instrumental work is pretty terrible if i'm honest, as the guitarists just chug away without really doing anything interesting, the bassist does fuck all as far as I can tell and the drummer plays standard grinding parts and some run-of-the-mill slamming parts. It's all incredibly uninspiring, and I don't think there was more than 1 or 2 riffs on the entire album which managed to catch my attention at all, and i'm a sucker for anything catchy (within reason of course - Brokencyde are catchy but hooooly shit are they bad). I suppose they can all play reasonably well in time, but that's probably all I can say in favour of the musicians.

The vocalist on the other hand, really has no redeeming features. He doesn't alter his vocals one bit, apart from the occasional change in tone and even then he just carries on incessant, droning gurgle which is just so boring! It just makes the music drag on for ages, and I suspect that if he wasn't here and there was a good vocalist in his place (something which is being explored with the new replacement vocalist/s (who is it now, I swear it was Big Chocolate but now it's someone else?)) then this album would actually be somewhat tolerable and reasonably enjoyable.

As it is, this is just very, very boring. For about 30 seconds of Entrails Full of Vermin (I skipped the first track with the boring sample) it feels as if this is going to be an incredibly heavy, bludgeoning slam album but it soon descends into banality. Despite this it does have a few enjoyable moments, and is not just a complete waste of time: the aforementioned Entrails Full of Vermin is probably the best song here as the opening is ok, and there are a few other sections where there's a slightly exciting breakdown or something of that sort. Apart from those precious few moments there is little here worth your time. Sure the production is good, but when the music is just a pointless chugfest with a bunch of breakdowns and some idiot gurgling incessantly over the top of it then the production doesn't really add anything to the experience.

Overall I can't really recommend this album to anyone except the most diehard slam fans (I've seen people rave about this shit on other sites, how can this be that exciting?). I'd say that if you wanted some mindless (incredibly mindless), well-produced music to gently slap some children to (this doesn't even make me want to beat them to a bloody pulp with my fists like a good slam album should) then listen to Entrails Full Of Vermin or... well really any other song here to be honest, as they all sound very similar.

HEAVY!!!... but shitty - 30%

roadwarrior666, April 9th, 2010

Abominable Putridity are a clone slam death band with simple palm muted riffs, intensely low gargled vocals, blast beats, and musical technicality akin to something I could write (which isn’t that good). But they’re really fun to listen to drunk! I’m a big fan of slam death as a subgenre. Kataklysm, Skinless, Dying Fetus, and Devourment are all favourite bands of mine. While these bands mix heavy slamming riffs into their music, Abominable Putridity mix music into their heavy slamming riffs, so to speak.

Abominable Putridity is the band to listen to when all you’re looking for is good, slow, head banging fun. This is all they’re really good for, and why I listen to them when I drink. Let’s face the facts. Everybody loves a good heavy breakdown. But when your breakdowns have breakdowns, and those have breakdowns, it gets pretty boring, pretty fast. The riffs which aren’t breakdowns are actually really catchy and almost memorable at times. They’re slightly faster and keep the songs from becoming an endless void of constant chugging. The problem is that they aren’t used as much and the songs ultimately DO end up being mindless chug sessions. It’s very difficult to determine one song from the next. If you played me a song from this album, I probably couldn’t tell you the name of it just by listening to it. The middle track Dissected From Within is just 1 minute of gory sounds which literally sounds like someone being dissected from within, which is important because if it weren’t for this song you probably wouldn’t be able to tell where in the album you were. Drumming is pretty standard with lots of double kick and little technicality and basically just keeps the heavy beats going. The vocals are similar to (Insert slam death band here) and are indecipherable, which is to be expected. By the end of the album it’s almost unbearable to keep listening. You’ll have slammed more than most people will in an entire year.

Like I said before, these guys are good for their slams, which come about every ten seconds. This album just might be the epitome of slam death metal, which isn’t necessarily a good thing. So if you have a bottle of hard liquor and an aching for head banging, then you should check this out. Otherwise, listen to a band with talent.

Slam death metal sucks. - 0%

TheSunOfNothing, October 25th, 2009

There is absolutly nothing this album does right. There is also absolutly nothing this album contains that is not a stereotype of the slam death metal scene. Starting with a stupid sounding sample, the album then turns into your average slam fest with at least one slam every 10-20 seconds. Even worse, it's all the same slams with hardly any variation in pattern. Then there are the stereotypical "grind" parts where the drummer blasts away and the guitarist plays pseudoriffs.

The vocalist, known only as Vladimir, lowers the bar for slam vocalists by about 30 notchs. This man is a disgrace to metal, and makes Mike Majewski look like Frank Sinatra. All he's doing is fucking exhale gurgling, which is extremly easy once you learn how to do it. Even worse, he NEVER varies tone, and for god's sake there aren't even any lyrics to this shit. If there are, PROVE IT. Give me some example that this jerk has any talent whatsoever.

The guitarist is possibly the worst guitarist of slam as well. This man has two modes, slam riff mode and grind mode. There are is nothing else here. There aren't even real riffs on this shit, it's just the same slam in slightly varied patterns, let alone any solos. He only goes to the 3rd or 4th fret. I think this guy's one of the worst guitarists I've ever seen (although he looks great compared to the dude from Emmure or Waking the Cadaver).

The bassist is only here to make the music more brutal. There is a 2 or 3 second place in "Skin Removal", and a maybe 5 or 6 second part in "Throat Fisting Abortion" where he plays, but that's it. Other than that all he does is follow the guitar. Pathetic.

The drummer is so un-talented I won't even bring him up.

On the entire album the only thing I remember is the pointless sample-only "Dissected From Within". The small details I gave I had to relisten 4 or 5 times to catch. That's how much this album blends together. There is absolutly nothing this album deserves exept to be used as a drink coaster.

I just don't get it. Why would someone pay money for 26 minutes of this when you can get Suffocation's "Pierced From Within" or Carcass's "Symphonies of Sickness", two albums which are equally as heavy yet far longer and far more technical and, for god's sake, those bands have LYRICS. No band in the world is this bad (exept for maybe Avenged Sevenfold, who I have devoted my life to hating). Not even Waking the Cadaver. At least that's funny. This is just...stupid.

As good As Slamming Brutal Death Metal Gets! - 100%

Supreme_Slammage, October 25th, 2009

I've had this album for a few years now and let me say, Slam death metal doesn't get much better than this. This is a genre defining album-an album so amazing and so good at being slam death metal that it sets the standard! Up there with Devourment's Butcher the weak and Cephalotripsy's Uterovaginal Insertion of Extirpated Anomalies it takes slamming to a higher level.

There is really nothing I can find wrong with the album.

The production is top notch for slam death. I can hear everything perfectly. THe levels are great and nothing takes over. Also, this album sounds so fucking thick and low its subterranean. It sounds like you are listening to it underwater, at the bottom of the ocean or something awesome like that. THe guitar is super thick and the bass is twice as thick as that. The drums sound a tiny bit thin and electronic because of the decision to trigger all the drums i suppose. However in their case the sounds which might sound crappy alone, really compliment the other tracks. They are easy to hear and don't intere with other tracks when playing fast which is something a lot of BDM and Slam albums can't say.

Vocals are top of the industry. Again, subterranaen is all I can say!!! They are very wet sounding and extremely guttural. Sounds like a demoic lizard man at somepoints, a toilet flushy every once in a while, water moving through or being drained out pipe, a bull frog occasionaly, a tub draining and sometimes a frog being flush down a toilet. Simply epic!! The epitome of great vocals!!!! If there was a how to do sick death metal vocals 101 course this guy would be in it.

As far as riffing goes, this album has some extremely well played and even more brutal slams. Very precise, much more so than most slam bands. Fairly technical slamming parts. In between slamms there are some good brutal fast riffs or conecting mid paced riffs. Again, everything here is super low. I wonder what tuning these guys play in? I have never tried to figure it out and maybe i don't wanna know.


Drummer is very skilled. Super tight. He has a great variety of breakdown/slam beats. He is very well syncopated. The few places where breakdowns are replaced by blast beats he also performs very well. He employs a diversity of different blast beast and does so tastefully so that the songs flow well.

All in All this is as good as a slam death metal album, or album of any genre can get!!!

Abominable Stupidity - 3%

Chaosgoat666lol, April 7th, 2009

When I first came across this band, I thought I had discovered a new level of heaviness. But as I quickly realized, this is actually the stupidest, most boring piece of shit I've heard in my entire life. Aside from sporadic blast beats, the entire CD is an incoherent mess of "breakdown" riffs. One after another the chunky, triplet filled grooves are forced down your throat in seemingly random order as the vocalist growls at the same pitch for 20 minutes.

None of the songs have any structure or flow, just "brutal" riffs which alternate between several basic templates. While any of these grooves might sound crushingly heavy at the climax of a coherent song, Abominable Putridity doesn't build tension or take their songs anywhere. The result of an entire CD crammed full of oversimplified grooves is that the rhythms loose all of their heaviness and get quite irritating.

Although "In the End of Human Existence" has pretty good sound quality, competent instrumentation, and tons of heavy riffs, there isn't any musicianship. Despite fulfilling the technical and aesthetic requirements of brutal death metal, this band is so lacking in feeling that they aren't even fun to listen to in the way that a lot of generic, "clone" death metal is. Really, this CD represents a new level of unoriginality and mindlessness that will either put you to sleep or piss you off. Anyone who considers death metal an art will probably find Abominable Putridity offensively stupid - while there's no end to "brutal" riffing, there really aren't any songs here.