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Minnesota based darkness purveyors
Aberration make a terrifying impact with their self-titled debut mini album released on Sentient Ruin, featuring three cacophonous tracks of unrelenting dread filled to the brim with a devouring sense of claustrophobia. Formed recently in 2019 by members of Void Rot, Suffering Hour, Nothingness and Tvaer, Aberration play the bone-chilling genre of raw and blackened death metal awash with the soul-consuming soundscapes of impending doom.
Forgoing track names for numerals Aberration kick off with ‘I’ lurching into immediate chaos through a wickedly dissonant plague of toned-down blast beats and atonal guitar work. Drums clatter as stringwork swarms and bestial vocals bellow from the depths of its dizzying maelstrom… simplistic… yet devastating. The EP’s longest track ends much as it begins, with brutal bursts of bruising skin-beating madness, which is preceded by the ominous cry of tremolos that scream to unleash unseen monstrosities.