Artist description Death/Grind Metal from Ireland's purveyors of Hate!

Music Style Death/Grind

Artist History ABADDON/ 1 Hell, 2 The devil (Rev. 9:11). (Heb., = destruction). For those of you unfamiliar with the word, this is the Oxford Dictionary's definition of ABADDON. The name ABADDON INCARNATE came about as a result of the band's music, which most definitely provided the inspiration for this name change. But, like all bands, ABADDON INCARNATE has a history. ABADDON INCARNATE began as a five piece in 1989, then calling themselves BEREAVED. While still playing Death Metal, it was more sedate in nature taking in topics relating more to magic and the occult. BEREAVED released two demos (Signs of Death, Tortured Souls), which did result in some preliminary interest from a number of underground labels, but, due to the departure of their drummer in 1991, this situation was never taken advantage of. During the following year BEREAVED played with several stand in drummers, none of whom quite filled the position and it was not until the summer of 1992 that a permanent replacement was found in Olan Parkinson. BEREAVED, now more focused, started writing new material for the first time in almost two years. By late 1994 Alan Kelly, who had been with the band since the start, decided to pursue an alternative career and left shortly before they recorded the third demo (When The Demons Come). It was at this point that BEREAVED changed their name to ABADDON INCARNATE as they felt that the new music was distinctly faster, heavier and topically, heading in a new direction. However it was still not quite there in terms of style and compared to the newer material being written at that time, the five songs on it were quite different. It was for these reasons that Demons was not widely distributed. In 1996 ABADDON recorded a two-track sampler (Nihilist, Temple of Rancid Filth) in one day. The tracks on this sampler were later to appear on their debut album. Again, only a handful of these tapes was ever distributed but it was this sampler that eventually reached French label Season of Mist (Mayhem, Gorguts) in early 1998. On the strength of this sampler ABADDON INCARNATE secured a two-album deal with the label. In October 1998 ABADDON travelled to Tico Tico studios in Finland and under the reluctant guidance of Athi (Sentenced, Impaled Nazarene) recorded their debut entitled The Last Supper which included ten hate filled tracks drawing on influences such as early Morbid Angel, Impaled Nazarene and Brutal Truth. The album was set for an early 1999 release but due to recurring problems did not see shop shelves until September of the same year. It was during this waiting period that ABADDON was to see the loss of another long suffering member. Rob Tierney, the original bassist, left to follow a promising career in graphic design. Luckily a replacement was found within months, Cory Sloan (The Fifth Dominion, Thy Sinister Bloom) joined in July 1999. The following October ABADDON supported Morbid Angel in Dublin. At the end of 1999 ABADDON decided to part company with Season Of Mist as their label and take control of the recording of their second album this was due mainly to the lack of promotion and communication received. Over the next year ABADDON would rewrite almost all of the material for the second album hoping to record mid 2001. During the summer of 2000, ABADDON travelled to Germany to play with well-known German Death Metal band Impending Doom. These gigs were a great success giving ABADDON their first taste of the European audiences. Meanwhile there were some difficulties in getting a studio and an engineer that would suit them and their new material. But in May 2001, with perseverance and some luck, they managed to get Mieszko from Nasum to agree to engineer and produce the album in Soundlab Studios, Sweden. And in May 2001 ABADDON INCARNATE signed to Sentinel who will released their new album Nadir in September 2001.

Group Members Steve Maher - Guitar / vocals Bill Whealen - Guitars Cory Sloan - Bass & backing vocals Olan Parkinson - Drums

Albums The Last Supper, Nadir

Press Reviews Metalireland.com (Ireland) 3.8/5 www.metalireland.com "This cd is highly capable of outgunning nearly any contemporary deathgrind on the world stage..." "nothing from Ireland has ever sounded like this" Terrorizer (UK) 7/10 www.terrorizer.com "its grime stained shredding and and chaotic roar showcase an intensity and a clarity of intent rarely seen in bands from these isles.." "Nadir's 24 raging tracks are a worthy, if somewhat safe addition to the genre." Gnosis Zine (Australia) www.gnosiszine.com "With this amount of tracks, some death-grind bands often leave me a bit confused, but I was surprised at the amount of variation offered on this release, a very brutal piece of work." Agonia Mag (Poland) 4/5 www.agonia.dagdy.net "I find wide variety of different styles of grinding brutality on this album. I'm sure Death Metal maniacs will fall in love while listening to this album." Tartarean Desire (Sweden) 6.5/10 "I don't have anything negative to say about the production job which was executed almost perfectly.Good things about the album: intensity, furious speed, growling." Necromance (Spain) 9/10 www.necromance.com "Good music, good musicians, right production... What more can be asked for?????????" Metal Hammer (UK) 6/10 "'Nadir' is supremely brutal - an unremitting deluge of sometimes brief but harrowing blasts of noise. Manic, ultra-fast percussion serves only to drive the chaos further into your brain, rather than adding any sense of organisation to the proceedings." Bloodcifery (Spain) 8.5/10 www.bloodcifery.com "Grind with intense death, fast and executed to perfection" Chronicles of Chaos (Portugal) 8/10 www.chroniclesofchaos.com "With tracks ascrushing and enjoyable as "They Use Dark Forces", "Aeons of Our Dying" and "Traumatic Stress Solution", Abaddon Incarnate cannot be denied the praise they deserve for having created something not only very competent but also interesting in such a saturated genre." Powerplay Magazine (UK) 10/10 - for genre? "This is twenty-four tracks of hate and speed and general grossness that puts Cannibal Corpse to shame.. If this sounds like your arsenic-laced cup of tea (avec razorblades), try www.sentinelireland.com.... it's disgusting stuff.." Metal-Guide (Greece) 8/10 metal-guide.com "Their arrangements are very good, and there is enough nice moments in their music, which has a hidden groove that captures your mind very soon... they have a lot more to offer." Vae Solis (Russia) 5/6 www.rusmetal.ru/vae_solis "I can't really understand why SoM got rid of ABADDON INCARNATE. These guys fucking shrrrrrrrrrrred , believe me! Actually, it's not really death metal, or at least not a 100% DM, but more likely a cross between grind- and death-core. Pretty complex and definitely in-your-face, variable enough, and what's most important, recognizable." Violent Solutions (France) 14/20 Their ultra-speed grind takes to you with the throat as of the first piece and the titanic howls would transpierce even the ears of a deaf person. 24 titles for 43 minutes of a slaughter monumental on bottom of guitars clashing ultra-doors and blast-beats." Wormgear Magazine "Abaddon Incarnate have reached death/grind perfection with their 2nd album, "Nadir". 2 vocalists gutturally retch, and saw through high pitched scabs on this disjointed monster of extremity. An apocalyptic grind pace is set for the majority of this album, but more sane mid-paced death chords cut into the freeform sounding insanity riffing, to bring the listener back to a level of comprehension." "you will be throttled by the sheer intensity of this death grind masterpiece" Sentinel Mag (Australia) "Uncompromising album - if you're into this type of music, a welcome blessing" "43 Minutes of unrelenting, brutal as a medieval dungeon death fucking metal. Thick guitars, with a particular sawing, modern fuzz sound, a blur of double kicks and percussion and a ever-present duet of a hoarse roar and a neurotic, smeared screech." Ledo Takas (Lithuania) 9/13 "Irish fellows prove this whole to work out fine with downtuned death/grindcore, which is a heavy load of music - definitely not for the weak" Violated Rot (USA) 10/10 www.violatedrot.com "The music is so intense it would blow your head off like that pour soul in the movie Scanners!! The vocals are mixed with rasped half dead roadkill screams, topped with mid range gutturals. The music I believe I explained already. pure insanity, true and outright intense!" Metal Nightmare zine "ABADDON INCARNATE….They play loud and ugly." Music Extreme (Argentina) www.musicextreme.com "This is a CD for grindcore fans and also for death metal ones because it has all the features that they love" Metal Union Fanzine www.geocities.com/metalunion2/ "From raging blastbeats and sick high-pitched screams, to guttural death grunts and thrashin' guitars with a mosh beat, AI take it to the jugular with every song. I was bangin' my head furiously along with this one" "I'd say any brutal metaller should grab this one, they will not be disappointed." Blooddawn Mag (Germany) www.Blooddawn.de "The heavy and deep sound is absolutely perfectly transferred and well produced. No miracle, because the disk was recorded in the well-known Soundlab studios in Sweden?"……. "for lovers of bad Grindcore this disc will be true ear gasmash! Source Webzine "Good for Irish music, good for the listeners. Promising! Brutal Extremely, groovy and violent Death Metal/Grind Core band from Ireland. Consistently heavy and aggressive music." Panzer Magazine (Germany) "Ireland is becoming a good metal country with bands like Cruachan, Primordial, Mourning Beloveth and now Abaddon Incarnate as the most interesting names at the moment. I don't have anything negative to say about the production job which was executed almost perfectly."

Location Dublin, Co. - Ireland

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