Chilean power-combo Atomicide return with their second full length, a year and a half after the former one, Spreading The Cult Of Death. In more than a decade of existence, they gained quite some ‘popularity’ in their home country, and the intervention of Iron Bonehead Productions will promote this band’s name on an international scale for sure.
Chaos Abomination was recorded by Atomizer Pig (also in Death Skull and formerly in e.g. Hades and Unaussprechlichen Kulten), Deathbringer (in Hades) and Prophaner (think: ex-Diabolical Holocaust, Hades, Death Skull, ex-Necropsia, Octagram etc.), and gets released on 12” vinyl via Iron Bonehead Productions, and on CD via long-time label Death Division Rituals (though the latter being limited).
The album has a total duration of thirty four minutes and brings nine monstrous and diabolical sonic eruptions of warfare, apocalyptic propaganda and morbidity-worship. The old styled and Thrash-edged Death Metal by these Chile-located veterans lacks of originality, once again, yet seen the grandiose quality of both song writing and performance, undersigned is quite happy. Also the production makes [it] smile, for it sounds raw, hammering, uncompromising and vile, yet still focusing on the primal essence.
Once again: do not expect some grandiose surprises, technically high-leveled experiments or renewing inventions, because you will find none. But the basic ideas of the eighties scene, and then I am referring to about everything in between Sarcófago, Blasphemy, Morbid Angel (remember the early years???), Impiety, Profanatica, Revenge – damn, you know what I am trying to clear up, of course. It’s not like Atomicide do sound like a cheap copycat (rather like a fancy crack-addicted whore???), and that’s why we need to see through, or is it ‘beyond’, the lack of originality.
My personal irritation however: the total lack of variation, and then I mean that, even after three listens, I do still consider some pieces as ‘hey damn, I just heard that track before’ – and that’s not the way it’s meant to be, I guess…