| CD REVIEW Abysmal Dawn |
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Band: Abysmal Dawn Almost three years after From Ashes, this Los Angeles-based horde kick ass again! With its thirty seven minutes, Programmed To Consume goes on where the debut album ended, which means modern and energetic Death Metal with a complete lack of originality. This latter does not bother, because the overall quality of both compositions and performance (the members did already prove to be great musicians with their former bands, such as Inhuman Visions and Grotesque, the American one) is just fine. The technical tracks come with a nice sound quality, partly thanks to producer John Haddad, who did also work with, for example, Intronaut, Eyes Of Fire, The Funeral Pyre and Phobia. The symbiosis of mid- to up-tempo riffs, an intense rhythm section, a few tempo-changes and solo’s, a deep throat and a somewhat grinding atmosphere reminds me to a mixture of, let’s say, the later Cannibal Corpse, Morbid Angel, Deicide, Necrophagia, Decapitated and Inhuman Visions, of course. Programmed To Consume has become a fine successor of From Ashes, even though the few Grindcore-elements on the one hand, and the Swedish-oriented elements from In Flames or Dissection on the other have completely gone, yet I’m somewhat disappointed by the strongly present and evident heard-it-all-before feeling. 75/100 Ivan Tibos. |