We all know the metal cycle: something gets press, people rush out to buy it, and then years later we see it in the sale bin as companies reduce stock in something which, since it is no longer in the metal media, is not selling. Right now the re-issue of the Abomination demos is getting this treatment.
Released in 2012, this digipak (ugh) CD contains two demos from the late 1980s from yet another iteration of the Paul Speckmann concept of metal, as usual with a recombination of other lineups into a new but familiar band. For those who are interested in the history of Master, Funeral Bitch, Speckmann Project, and Deathstrike, it is a gold mine of possibilities.
Tracklist
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Demo 1988
- Victim Of The Future
- Social Outcast
- Rape Of The Grave
- Possession
- Doomed By The Living
- The Truth
- Over The Edge
- Reformation
- Impending Doom
- Curses Of The Deadly Sin
- Tunnel Of Damnation
- Follower
Demo 1989
You can score your copy from Hammerheart for a reduced price.
Tags: abomination, death metal, paul speckmann
Paul Speckmann has a simple problem: he does not understand the laws of supply and demand.
The more of something there is, the less it is valued; conversely, the less of something there is, the more it is valued.
This means that the more recordings of the same 20 Speckmetal™ songs are floating around, the less any of us are going to buy them.
And DigiPak? Couldn’t those have stayed in this 1990s like peasant skirts and acid-washed jeans? Dying cultures produce their most embarrassing artifacts at the end.
Acid washed denim is still cool and so is this CD.
Digipacks are an abomination. Although I handle the few I own with care, they are fucked up beyond any recognition. Jewelcases or death
I prefer this to the first Master which has the worst drum sound I’ve ever heard in my life, actually just take Death Strike and move on