review: Aberration -- cavernous claustrophobic doom death from the Land of Ten Thousand Lakes

Aberration

Aberration

Sentient Ruin Laboratories

January 15 2021

Even though this publication is unable to reveal the identities of the illusionist-contortionists behind Aberration, the Department of Propaganda subdivision of the Ministry of Reeducation from extraterrestrial feudal overlords Sentient Ruin Laboratories has grudgingly released general details that this cacophony involves “members of Void Rot, Suffering Hour, Tvaer, and Nothingness.” That right there, dear reader, for those so inclined, is information that can be pursued at Metal Archives. Aberration is that cavernous death that has recently been spewing out of Minnesota, U.S., involving a specific inner circle of people. It is minimalistic, low-growling indecipherable death that crawls like the slowest death doom only to speed up to black/death velocities. The guitar at times chugs like you chug when you chug with the best of them, for those whole-body headbobbing motions, as you can hear for yourself on track “II.” There are three songs: “I” (06:09), “II” (03:16), and “III” (05:18), working a monolithic, hypnotic effect that happens after entering this one-way cave of heaviness in simplicity. It starts to sound like one whole recording with a couple of pauses in between, and not as separate songs. Aberration is new death but it has the intentions of old hearts at work. The production, heaviness, vocals, density, the blurry fogginess is something that old-school fans might enjoy. To those fans, Aberration might sound like Autopsy recording in their garage some covers of early Incantation, or like Immolation using Autopsy's recording garage to record some Autopsy-Immolation mashup covers. A solid three songs.

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