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General information
origin Chicago , Illinois , United States
Genre (s) Hardcore punk (initially), thrash metal , death metal
founding 1987, 1999
resolution 1993
Current occupation
Aaron Nickeas
Paul Speckmann
Drums (live)
 Raphael Saini
former members
Electric bass, vocals
 Mike Pahl
Electric guitar
 Dean Chioles († 2001)
Electric guitar
 Brian Brady
Electric guitar
 Mike Schaffer
Electric guitar
 Mike Konopka
Electric guitar
 Chaz Baker
Electric guitar (live)
 Ken Cutler

Abomination is an American death and thrash metal band from Chicago , Illinois , which was founded in 1987, disbanded in 1993 and has been active since 1999.

history

The band was formed in 1987 and consisted of drummer Aaron Nickeas, guitarist Chaz Baker and bassist and singer Mike Pahl. In 1988, Paul Speckmann , who was in the band Funeral Bitch at the time and had previously worked for Master and War Cry, saw this group perform. Speckmann was particularly impressed by Nickeas. After both bands had rehearsed together later that night, Speckmann and Nickeas decided to pick up on it soon, preferably several times for several hours. In a rehearsal studio in Chicago that belonged to Mike Jones, a friend of Nickeas, both then continued rehearsing with Impulse Manslaughter guitarist Mike Schäffer. First songs like Social Outcast and Doomed by the Living were created . After a first demo had been recorded, which also contained a cover version of a master song and of which around 700 copies could be sold, the members decided to drop out of all other bands in which they were involved and to subscribe dedicate. The now former Abomination members Baker and Pahl founded the band Funeral Nation with the funeral bitch guitarist Alex Olvera . Later that year, Dean Chioles, a friend of Nickeas, replaced Schäffer. Rehearsals for the second demo followed. This demo appeared self-titled in 1989. In addition, the band held more gigs, where they appeared together with Cro-Mags , Death , Sacred Reich , Atrophy , Broken Bones , Indestroy and Killjoy , among others . In spring 1989 they went on tour through North America together with Burnt Offering . After the group turned down offers from Peaceville Records and Roadracer Records , they signed a recording deal with Nuclear Blast in late 1989 . The contract was made through Speckmann, who had met an old friend named Joe Caper from Righteous Pigs . Speckmann had given Caper the first demo, after which Caper, Mitch Harris and another person named Slatko were able to convince the label. In the DKP Studios in Villa Park , Illinois, was then with producer Bob Pucci recorded the debut album. The self-titled album was released in early 1990. The album was able to increase the awareness of the band, especially the Speckmanns. In 1991 the second album Tragedy Strikes followed before it was dissolved in 1993. In 1999 the band got back together. In the same year the EP Final War was released . At the beginning of the year, the band went on a tour of the USA, which included 24 performances. This led to confusion at times, as Speckmann performed with both an Abomination and a Master's degree and both groups consisted of the same members. Speckmann also appeared in 2000 with two groups of the same line-up, whose styles are only partially different: Krabathor and Martyr .

In November 2011 the compilation Abomination / Tragedy Strikes was released , which consists of the first two albums, the 1999 EP and rare demo recordings from 1987 and 1988. In 2011 the group also held a small tour of Europe . The band has only been active sporadically since 2011 or inactive for years and only gives concerts occasionally. Instead, Speckmann is usually active with a master's degree. The live album Suicidal Dreams - Official Live Bootleg was released via Metal Bastard Enterprises in 2017 , which was followed by the live EP Live in Germany on the same label the following year .

style

In an interview with Jakob from Metal.de , Speckmann stated that he prefers to write politically and socially critical texts instead of about Satan . As early as 1990, in an interview with Markus Müller from Deadline magazine, he mentioned the topics of religion, life / death and war. Musically, he said in the first interview, he was influenced by Black Sabbath , Motörhead , Venom , Slayer , GBH , Minor Threat and Discharge , among others . The blast off! 1990 cited Motörhead and Cro-Mags in this regard . In an interview with Robex Lundgren from ghgumman.blogg.se , Speckmann explained that initially songs were written by him and Schäffer separately. After Chioles' arrival, he also co-wrote songs, but in the long run he did 90% of the work. He himself assigned Abomination to death and thrash metal. Speckmann gave Black Sabbath as the initial influence on devoting himself to music. In 1990 he called his style "Technical Thrash". According to Matthias Herr in Matthias Herr's Heavy Metal Lexicon Vol. 2 , Abomination was still a hardcore punk band before Speckmann joined a mixture of death and thrash metal. After Chioles joined, he was responsible for the songwriting . The debut album offers powerful Thrash Metal with aggressive vocals that are reminiscent of Speckmann's death metal past. According to the Facebook presence, the text of The Choice was written by Aaron Nickeas. The album Tragedy Strikes treats, among other things, the Second Gulf War . Jon Kristiansen wrote in Metalion: The Slayer Mag Diaries about the first demo that aggressive Death Metal can be heard on it, although there are tonal similarities to Master and Deathstrike. When asked Martin winder from Metal Hammer would he why two bands with the same cast lead, justified himself Speckmann that the songs of master rather uncompromising, straight forward and simple "with some simple punk - riffs " while Abomination varied and faster is. Also his singing is not so "dirty and angry" here.

Martin Popoff reviewed the debut album in his book The Collector's Guide of Heavy Metal Volume 3: The Nineties and described it as technically demanding Thrash Metal and drew a comparison to Voivod , "really greasy" destruction or twisted and angry coroner . However, Popoff found the music to be inaccessible, but rather as loud, albeit technically demanding, noise. In the deadline , Markus Müller said that the album was “not pure Death Metal”, because it contained “some classic Thrash Metal elements”. Mordhorst from the Blast Off! It was important not to see any artificial musical brutality in the performance, but to recognize Speckmann's emotional world behind it. For him, Speckmann is the new “God of Death” or at least “King of Death”. Rock Hard's Wolfgang Schäfer also reviewed the album, describing the group as an uninspired and unarranged offshoot of Master. Due to the lack of variety and unoriginal music, he advised against buying the album and instead referred to Atrophys Violent by Nature . In a later issue, Markus Müller discussed Tragedy Strikes . The songs are better produced and structured, but the “snotty aggressiveness” of the predecessor is missing, which means that the band's recognition value is lost. Overall, the album is suitable for fans of "straight, cleanly played Thrash".

Discography

  • 1988: Demo 1 (demo, self-published)
  • 1989: Abomination (demo, self-published)
  • 1990: Master / Abomination (split with Master , Nuclear Blast )
  • 1990: Abomination (album, Nuclear Blast)
  • 1991: Tragedy Strikes (album, Nuclear Blast)
  • 1999: The Final War (EP, Metal Age Recordings )
  • 1999: Curses of the Deadly Sin (Compilation, Metal Age Recordings)
  • 2011: Abomination / Tragedy Strikes (compilation, Nuclear Blast)
  • 2012: Demos (compilation, Doomentia Records )
  • 2017: Suicidal Dreams - Official Live Bootleg (Live Album, Metal Bastard Enterprises )
  • 2018: Live in Germany (Live EP, Metal Bastard Enterprises)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Matthias Herr: Matthias Herr's Heavy Metal Lexicon Vol. 2 . Verlag Matthias Herr, 1990, p. 16 ff .
  2. ^ A b Jon Kristiansen : Metalion: The Slayer Mag Diaries . Brooklyn, NY: Bazillion Points Books 2011, p. 158.
  3. ↑ a b c Info. Facebook , accessed May 21, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Biography. musicmight.com, archived from the original on August 14, 2016 ; accessed on May 21, 2020 .
  5. ↑ a b Abomination. nuclearblast.de, accessed on May 21, 2020 .
  6. ↑ a b Martin Wickler: Abomination… In: Metal Hammer . April 1999, p. 14 .
  7. ↑ Jan Jaedicke: Martyr. Murder X - The End of the Game . In: Rock Hard . No. 156 , May 2000, In Scheiben, p. 92 .
  8. ↑ a b Robex Lundgren: interview with Abomination. ghgumman.blogg.se, accessed May 21, 2020 .
  9. ↑ a b c Jakob: Master. "Long-haired crazy people and punk rockers" - An interview with Paul Speckmann. Metal.de , accessed on May 21, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Abomination. Discogs , accessed May 21, 2020 .
  11. ↑ a b c Markus Müller: Abomination . In: Deadline . No. 4 , 1990, pp. 24 (without the exact month of publication).
  12. ↑ a b Mordhorst: Abomination. Hell on earth . In: Blast Off! No. 1/1990 , 1990, Death & Core, pp. 23 (without the exact month of publication).
  13. ↑ Martin Popoff : The Collector's Guide of Heavy Metal Volume 3: The Nineties . Collectors Guide Ltd, Burlington, Ontario, Canada 2007, ISBN 978-1-894959-62-9 , pp. 7 .
  14. ↑ Markus Müller: Abomination - "Abomination" . In: Deadline . No. 4 , 1990, Vinyl Reviews, pp. 41 (without the exact month of publication).
  15. ↑ Wolfgang Schäfer: Abomination . Subscription. In: Rock Hard . No. 38 , April 1990, pp. 46 .
  16. ↑ Markus Müller: Abomination . Tragedy strikes. In: Rock Hard . No. 54 , October 1991, p. 78 .