When I wrote about Blood Abscission’s first album I back in 2023 I
noted that they held a lot of promise as a band and I hoped they’d
continue. I don’t think I could have imagined how much promise,
because I I blows I out of the water and then some. This has been
my undisputed most listened to album this year, if my stats are
correct, I’ve listened to this twice as many times as the next album
released this year. Sound is perhaps the warmest and most analog I’ve
heard in years, back when I reviewed I I referred to it as
“enveloped in smog”, while things are a bit clearer this time, it
still has some of that quality to it. Most of the album proceeds at a
furious tempo and regardless of tempo the music surges with ferocious
energy. Vocals are completely undecipherable, while I can’t know it
certainly doesn’t sound like it’s necessarily words, the vocals are just
another instrument layered on top and it works perfectly with this
type of music. It’s also an album which managed to hold a fair amount
of surprises which sneak up on you over subsequent listens, for
example in the second track (helpfully named II) after about a
minute and a half a guitar lead comes in which makes you think you’ve
stumbled into a movie score by Ennio Morricone, and they make it
actually work. (Behold a sentence I never thought I’d write). This is
simply the standout album of the year for me, nothing else even comes
close, I I I can’t come fast enough.
Blood Abscission on Encyclopaedia Metallum
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