Horrorhammer - Abscess

I expected some pretty good things from Abscess’ latest release, despite being unfamiliar with long-running death metal outfit. I was easily won over by its Beksinski-style cover of rotting buildings, rising dead and monstrous eyeballs walking around on spider legs, and intrigued over vocalist/drummer Chris Reifer’s long-standing presence in the Californian death metal scene right from its infernal spawning in the mid-eighties, providing the drums for Death’s classic debut ‘Scream Bloody Gore’ (the only instrument not handled by Chuck Schuldiner) and immediately forming his own band Autopsy, which eventually morphed into Abscess. Thirdly, I thought the album title was ...  Read the complete review