Parasitic Metamorphosis Manifestation

It seems strange that not one person has reviewed this album yet. I'll most likely regret saying this later down the land, but this will probably be the best slam has to offer us this year. It's great to see Abominable Putridity come back after all this time, because goddammit it's been forever. The Anomalies of Artificial Origin released all the way back in 2012, so it's been about 9 years since their last major release. With that being said, there are a lot of things I want to say about this album.

For starters, let's talk about those vocals. Angel Ochoa was definitely the best replacement for Matti. I think Matti's absence did, in a way, hurt many peoples' view on this album, and that's a damn shame. Angel Ochoa is on the same level as Matti in my opinion. The dude killed it on this album, and every note that comes out of his vocal chords is filthy and I fucking love it. Many people try and point out how he sounds way better in Cephalotripsy, but of course he's gonna sound better in that band because he is the front man of that band. Angel just joined AP like a year ago, and it's clear that he adjusted to everything quickly. Non Infinite Sequence truly showed that Angel was fit to be vocalist for AP because the song sounded phenomenal.

Okay, now to move on to everything else. Some people say that the band should rebrand themselves seeing as Alex is the only original member left. Personally, I don't agree because this new AP album just sound like a part 2 to The Anomalies of Artificial Origin except with vocal styles similar to that of In the End of Human Existence. This album still oozes with the energy that AP has, so I feel it should still fall under the AP name. Let's talk about that album cover too. Simply put, it's fucking beautiful. It very nicely fits the AP motif. Going back to the music, I obviously can't talk about every song, but some stand outs include Supreme Void, Obscure Entity of Darkness, Non Infinite Sequence, and Paroxysm.

For closing thoughts, I will give my only 2 gripes with this album. 1, the run time. AP is known for making short albums, but they couldn't have made this just slightly longer? 9 years of waiting for a big release and we get an album that's a little over 24 minutes long, come on now. And 2, every song starts to sound the same after a while. While I deeply enjoy this new release, I can't help but feel that every song sounds similar to the next. Some have a little more personality than the others, a.k.a., the ones I mentioned before. In the end though, these don't ruin the album a lot, hence why I'm giving this a pretty good score. So, overall, I would recommend this album to everyone. It's fun, it's slammy, and it's a decent comeback.