ABSCESS - Tormented CD

This album is still a lot like Abscess's earlier stuff (like 'Seminal Vampires and Maggotmen) but with better production and a lot of the detuned creepiness of Mental Funeral. In addition to that, the song-writing quality has sky-rocketed and the songs are equally despondent and morbid at the same time. The vocals are probably the best part of the album, as they sound furious, disgusting but also very honest and emotionally intense. Of course the album is supposed to be totally disgusting, but there are a lot of emotional layers on it and the vocals do a great deal to help this. The songs are very brutal and they vary in speed, going from punk rock beats to thrashing, old school death to molasses-slow sludge.