ABIGAIL - Forever Street Metal Bitch CD

Forever Street Metal Bitch is blistering pretty much the whole way through, with a couple of slower, more thrashy songs (kind of like Attack With Spell from I&L). It also is a very melodic album, as one would expect from an Abigail album heavily influenced by Barbatos. The guitarwork is incredibly awesome, as it is on all Barbatos and Abigail releases, with all sorts of little noodly intricacies mixed in with the blistering riffage. The drumming, goddamn, is great, especially working the cymbals; there could be some more double bass and interesting fills, but can't there always be? The only disappointment of this album for me was the vocals. Yasuyuki's vocals are so raw and insane on Intercourse & Lust, and though you can tell they're the same here, the production muffles his voice in favor of more bass and melody. Yasuyuki still sounds good, but the production was much better for vocals on I&L. However, the production on this album greatly fits the heavy-metal-meets-thrash with a tinge of black.