Suicide fuck, suicide fuck! – 79%
Noktorn, July 28th, 2008
Abscess is the band that Chris Reifert formed post-Autopsy, and it sounds like a natural extension of what you’d hear on ‘Shitfun’: punk-infused oldschool death metal with unsavory subject matter and a generally raw, primitive sound. This compilation of the band’s first three demos pretty much captures Abscess as they’re supposed to sound: crude, unformed, gross, and angry. It’s pretty cool even if it does start to wear thin after over 40 minutes of this stuff, but it’s good in small doses.
The ingredients: power chord riffs ejaculated from a gritty, filthy guitar/bass combo, punk and rock-based drumwork that eschews any sort of technicality in favor of simple groove, and Reifert’s unmistakable, grotesque post-Tardy howling. Add a pinch of feedback and guitar noise sections that go on for too long and the occasional wild, thrashy solo, and you have Abscess. The songs are simple and short, crafted out of two or three riffs each and a few stanzas of ugly lyrics, and only very occasional blast beats or double bass. The sound quality is pretty rough but better on the first and third demos than the second, where the guitars are buried under the vocals of Reifert. It’s a bit silly to ask for high quality production for this music anyway. It’d be a waste of time and money.
Later Abscess is more of the same, so you could probably just pick up any album and you’d essentially be hearing everything the band has to offer. All of Abscess’ material is fun, catchy, and hideous though, so if you like one you’d probably want the rest anyway. I’d say this is a good place to start, and not just chronologically: it shows the band in their most primitive and Autopsy-influenced stage and packs some of their best songs. Really, it has ‘Suicide Fuck’, probably the best thing Abscess ever did, so at the very least get it for that song.
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