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This could be promising, or not. - 80%

AzzMan, April 1st, 2004

Its a demo. It can go either way.

This sounds really nice, but when you think about it, some bands may run out of actual GOOD material when they start putting out albums. And consistancy can help effect that for the worst, as well.

Musically, this is more brutal death. I usually hate the genre, it just comes off as frog screams and insanly fast hammering on whatevers in front of you. In this case, thats entirly untrue. Its well thought out, it sounds good, and who can't love the titles?

The vocals don't quite form the lyrics that are supposed to have been said, but that dosn't really matter. They sound good compared to your normal brutal death vocals, and you know what? Thats good. EXTREMELY good. The guitars grind in an OK way, but you always know you've heard better. The band deserves recognition, but not Vital Remains recognition. That would be overrating the band horribly.

Back on track, the drummings catchy too. Featuring fast beats, faster beats, and beats that are a bit slower then the fast ones. So pretty much bland drumming that widdles its way into the middle of everythign and sounds good doing it, which is suprising from a BDM album. You get teh feeling the full length won't be as good, though... Lets hope thats not true, shall we?

Interesting - 90%

megafury, March 9th, 2004

Heavy music does get tiring at times but Terminally Your Aborted Ghost is refreshing and unique, creating unconventional grindcore. There's a lot of wierd imagery in the lyrics. "To carve the sunrise into their chests with a dull ball point pen" is one line that painted a bizzare picture in my head. You won't know the lyrics just by listening to the music though, you'll have to read them cause the vocals are deep smothering growls, what you'd normally expect from other brutal death bands. It works for the music which gets odd at times and odd is a good thing. They bust out infectious grooves you never saw coming, that's what makes them special. A lot of tweeky guitar noise too that pops out, pretty experimental and different from a lot of other brutal death bands. There's a thick stoner atmosphere vibe they give off in some of their slower riffs. Sometimes for a brief moment they'll incorporate some funk music. For a brutal death/grind band, they are pretty slow paced, they don't go into any lightning fast riffs or rapid pounding drums for that long. The one song that sounds different from everything else is "Her Dead Burning Hair". It's more melodic with screechy guitars that have an alternative rock feel, only forty-seven seconds though. This is a band for fans of Mastodon, The Berzerker, Wormed, Pig Destroyer, Cephalic Carnage, Nile, Aborted, and Dying Fetus to watch out for. Good demo, Terminally Your Aborted Ghost have quite a special touch to their brand of brutal death that sets them aside from all the other bands in this genre that suffers from too many bands too afraid of venturing out of the genre's boundaries.

Brilliant Demo - 89%

Sportswear, March 9th, 2004

Firstly, I have to say, "Abortion Through A Straw" is the BEST song title I have EVER come across, ha ha ha.

It's a bloody good Demo. Simplicity at its true best. Interesting guitar playing that all seems to fit very well. The vocals stick out for me a lot also. The drumming slow and simple, but fucking goes perfectly, if you sped the songs up, they wouldn't be as affective.
The intro on the song "Innumerical Bonds" starts off very eerie indeed, with a strange melodic style part before dropping onto this very well growled voice and gloomy down tempo based sound with cheeky melodies and fills here and there. Very simple, but very fucking good, I would say slow to mid tempo. The whole structure and arrangement of the CD is very weird, as is the guitar work in general. It is very hard to just lump them with a certain label or category. Which to me is a great achievement.
"Hung Through a Coat Hanger" starts off very brutally, with tempo changes throughout.
Abortion Through A Straw starts off with some nice riffs, and a great shouty style set of vocals. When I think about it, this CD is perfect length and just overall very interesting. Exceptionally interesting guitar work on "Open Concave Chest Wound" about 1:20 in that explodes and then drops back in over the top of the usual weird and slow(ish) tempo and gritted teeth style crunches.
"Suicide as Self Expression" starts off very interesting indeed, with the low guttural growls as background to great shouts of seeming desperation, then the crunchy riffs to follow are brilliant.

The song "Her Dead Burning Hair", I think must be live or an earlier recording, because it is a terrible recording \m/ but a weird array of riffs, pretty good.

All in all, I fucking love it. I'm interested to see what direction their music goes.
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