I still remember clearly my mother telling me years ago very that the day would come when I’d stop listening to ‘this music’. I grew up with (death) metal and sure; I picked up lots of different music styles along the way. However, in the midst of late 80s death metal mediocrity, albums like Scream Bloody Gore, Strappado, Left Hand Path and Severed Survival sprung out and changed extreme music forever.

The music my mother was talking about is Autopsy’s Severed Survival. A classic gore and filth ridden death metal epic. Dirty, low grinding death metal with – ex-Death drummer – Chris Reifert on sticks. The infamous sloppy bass sound, haunting grunts, the thrash metal style drumming and up tempo groove in combination with a few doom influences, they’re all there. No blast beats or grind attacks, just filthy storming death metal with some thrash influences.

The end of Autopsy meant the birth of Abcess. Born in 1994, they released a range of demos and a few albums.

They picked up the pieces where Autopsy left them.

Abcess packed everything that made late 80s death metal so special in 11 raging tracks, added a few extra vocals, a few Slayer-like guitar leads and called it Through The Cracks Of Death. Their sound is still raging and brutal but dashed up with a few daring experiments in sound. It doesn’t weaken the album. Songs like the grinding “Through The Cracks Of Death” and “Escalation Of Violence” are everything you should expect from a band with members in the likes of Chris Reifert and Danny Coralles. A special note for the absolutely amazing “Mourners Will Burn”. The epic “An Asylum Below” offers it all. Up tempo groove, screaming leads, doom parts, guitar harmonies. Everything that makes death- and thrash metal special packed in 5 minutes of music (Asphyx and Autopsy fans know enough). And that goes for the entire album.

Check the agenda regularly, there is a chance they will do a European tour soon. So watch out for that.