Review artwork - Eardelete - Zombielogy CD

Rating: 6.8

Country: Slovakia

Release Date: 2007

Track list:
1. My Country
2. Thanks for Enemies
3. Everybody Gets What He Deserved
4. Asimilation Or Die
5. All Hands On Allbion
6. Anti Team Player
7. Natural Evolution
8. My Empty Life
9. Great Slavic Bullshit
10. 13th Crusade
11. Who Controls Gods
12. Temples For Gods Refuges For People
13. A Hero Died
14. Burn Paris Burn
15. Who Cares (Filthy Christians Cover)
16. Unexpected Gifts From Heaven
17. I Search For God
18. Don Quichote De La Punk
19. Don't Say It Aloud
20. Shopping Center King
21. Mad Man (D.R.I. Cover)
22. Hymns For All Slaves

Band Website: Abortion

Abortion - The Gonzo Music

Libor Hanulay - Guitar
Richard Oros - Drums, Vocals
Anton Varga - Bass, Vocals

Yet again Abortion have delivered despite all odds. This is the fifth time the miracle has happened. The church bells are ringing and I'm sure this news is splashed all over in the Slovak papers as well. The apple of everyone's ears, particularly that of the politicians, The Gonzo Music is not too different from Abortion's previous misbegotten child Gonna Be Worse. It is like an excessively delayed twin, and reasonably a weaker one too. Apart from that, the two are virtually indistinguishable.

What strikes you first about The Gonzo Music is its sheer causticity, which is like 72 hissing cats jumping together on an electric fence. Like them, all the hairs on your body will stand at exclamation once you are inflicted to this charged up bastard of an album. Traditionally, Abortion have been playing in the grind/crust/mincecore style of music that has been influenced by the early works of Napalm Death, Agathocles and Malignant Tumour. But probably having spent a good deal of time with the Czech playmates in the Obscene Fest playground, Abortion have gradually been influenced by the fun-filled, multi-faceted form of grindcore that naughty bands like Carnal Diafragma and the less enthused German band Mindflair are known to play. Mummy label doesn't scold them, for it is their fusion of the old and new styles that prevents their music from being outmoded, even though they keep dishing out the same salad on the platter, arranged just a tad differently each time.

The same number of songs their predecessor had are present on The Gonzo Music, but here the songs are wisely condensed to clock in just before the 30-min mark as opposed to the cumbersome 40-min mark. You thus are faced with 22 sarcasm-tinged grind/crust/ thrash/hardcore songs, each lasting about a minute, whose belligerence is fanned by the frenzied acidic screams of the vocalist who seems to have his cock stuck in a drawer where he probably has his porn magazines stashed away. Perhaps that's him on their disgusting artwork then with his shameful flaccid penis. On a few occasions, other band members too go up with him in a falsetto shouting chorus in order to express their empathy. The production is glass-shattering, the guitar playing ranges from compulsive to torpid, and the drummer manages to keep up. Also provided are covers of Filthy Christians and D.R.I.; were you to readily discern them, you ought to feel very proud of yourself.

The Gonzo Music is unfortunately not gonzo enough for me to jump on the electric fence and give company to the hung up cats. Already owning three of their babies, I do not feel an irresistible urge to run naked to the local metal store to kidnap another one. Actually I probably would have, had Gonna Be Worse not been such a superior album with better composed songs and featuring a raving highlight in the form of the soul-etching “N.W.O”. Abortion seemed truly excited on that album whereas on The Gonzo Music they seem to be wanting to recreate that emotion without any plausible reason. Although sharing the same vital funcore statistics, The Gonzo Music is but insipid by nature and for that reason I would deem it only strictly decent.

July 29th, 2007