{"id":84438,"date":"2018-09-19T13:00:19","date_gmt":"2018-09-19T18:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/?p=84438"},"modified":"2018-09-19T12:44:23","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T17:44:23","slug":"svart-records-double-review-abhorrence-teksti-tv-666","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/svart-records-double-review-abhorrence-teksti-tv-666\/","title":{"rendered":"Svart Records Double-Review: Abhorrence & Teksti-TV 666"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Svart Records back at it again. Two records, one great and one less-so. One old school death metal comeback and one krautpunk-meets-psychedelic-shoegaze debutante. Can you guess which is which?<\/p>\n

ABHORRENCE<\/a> –\u00a0MEGALOHYDROTHALASSOPHOBIC<\/h1>\n

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To just about everyone Abhorrence<\/strong> is the band where Tomi Koivusaari played before Amorphis<\/strong>. Over the years they became a (very) small cult name, and on the age of nostalgia raze, Svart Records decided to release Completely Vulgar<\/em> in honor of the band’s reactivation in 2012. The compilation of self-titled EP, Vulgar Necrolatry<\/em> demo, a bootleg and a rehearsal tape did well to defend it’s existence though, among masses of band’s reforming and re-releasing only because they had released one demo in the nineties, or had one of it’s members become better known later on – Abhorrence had potency far beyond these reaches. The second wave of their new coming was heralded by a live album last year, recorded in 2013. Now, having secured drummer extraordinaire, Waltteri V\u00e4yrynen, Abhorrence has finally let their comeback come to fruition with\u00a0Megalohydrothalassophobic<\/em> Ep.<\/p>\n

“Anthem For The Anthropocene”, the first single, couldn’t have been a worse start, with three major issues. Firstly, being the first new song of a Finnish death metal band that used to sound like Finndeath, one would have hoped that it would have carried at least a bit of Finnish flavour. This was not the case. Secondly, it did not sound like Abhorrence. Although it needs to be said that with so little recorded material to their name that it makes little sense to talk of their own, distinctive style – it bore no resemblance to their past material. And thirdly, this being the most major issue, the root of all other issues. It sucked. Bland, boring and hookless, with riffs so forgettable it feels completely riffless. Okay, I lied about the hookless-part, it’s chorus – a flaccid repetition of “Ia! Ia!”, is so tired it only serves to underline the tepid nature of the song.<\/p>\n