Incised Wound Suicide

Wow! My first contact with this band and it makes me wanna get on the phone, call up Malta and offer them a three album record deal! It's just that good!

Abysmal Torment have been compared over and over again to fellow countrymen Beheaded, so I will try to make some other comparisons. The drumming reminds me a lot of former Brodequin drummer Chad, nowadays in Pustulated. But more to the way he used to mangle in Brodequin than he does in Pustulated. And this comparison means fast-as-hell, and tighter than George W. Bush's arsehole, drumming. The vocals remind me of Uffe, former vocalist of Stabwound. Actually, this band has two vocalists, and it gives it a cool edge with dual growling. But these guys aren't bound to solely growling, you get served a whole platter full of gurgling, piglet screaming, monster gruff and every other brutal sound possible to create without the use of pitch shifters or other machinery.

This is a fucking impressive MCD, and I'm fucking glad I got my hands on it so I could get in touch with one of the best and biggest surprises in today's death metal scene - The monstrous manglers called Abysmal Torment.

Originally written for http://www.mylastchapter.net

Abysmal Torment's guitar sound on this album is thick, muddy, gritty...like someone pouring hot diarrhea in your ear...Does that make sense? The snare drum is loud, pingy and poppy and cuts right through the guitars and bass like rifle bullets. The double vocal assault is interesting...but do you really need to split up burping and garling into a two-person task?

Music-wise this is Devourment style whirlwind blastbeat grinding interrupted by face-stomping slam grooves. Like tons of bricks landing on your cranium..3:45 on "Sawed in Half" .. the guitar slow down to a sluggish pace with the double bass still cranking in the back. The first time I heard it I rewinded it a few times.

Abysmal Torment has plenty of flare to keep you interested for the whole EP. I think its smart that they kept it an EP though..cuz how much of this do you need? But if your in the mood for machine gun death/grind with grooves and a pretty unique/brutal production...look for either this or Malignancy's "Cross Species Transmutation"