Reincarnated in Abomination

So, I find myself checking out the new album by Fleshbomb. So let's take a peek and see what the contents of this album has to offer, shall we?

The first thing that strikes me, apart from the awesome album artwork, is once the intro finishes is that this has some pretty damn impressive guttural vocals, in this case I'm reminded of Abominable Putridity, vocals on Amputated's first album and other similar acts. And that is, in my opinion, how brutal death metal vocals should be, nice and raw and guttural. Next on the list is that the guitars are used rather well here creating a nice shredding effect while maintaining a raw and not too over-produced sound. Heck, there's even a few good, although somewhat brief solos in "Reincarnated in Abomination".

Production of the drums is better than average, but could have been a bit better refined and punctuated, not least when listening to the snare, it gets pretty muffled during the moments in songs where they're going for the usual all out attack on the snare, double bass and ride cymbal. Though on the other hand, when the snare is used/attacked less, it becomes easily audible over the rawness of the guitar, bass and guttural growling vocals.

I'm also impressed to see that the bass is used nicely and is clearly audible over the rest of the instruments, and heck, there's even a few extra rapid bass licks that certainly grab your attention when the other instruments take a very brief pause. This nicely punctuated bass gives it an extra layer of heaviness which is sometimes lost on bands who put so much effort into their albums only to fall short on emphasising the bass.

The style of this album is a nice mix between a rapid workout on all the instruments to occasionally adding a slower sequence that you can safely head bang to without breaking your neck. The only major criticism I have of this album is that it is not as brutal as I imagined it would be, i mean come on, just look at the album artwork, it's epic, it really gets your expectations high doesn't it? This does not mean that this album is not a good release, far from it, I just feel that the production could have been somewhat better and the music itself could have been more brutal. But, overall, I like this album, and I would recommend this to Abominable Putridity fans as this seems to be in the same league as "Anomalies of Artificial Origin", take a listen and see for yourself.