Preston’s Wrath of Man follow up their 2019 demo with eagerly anticipated debut album The Abstract Grotesque.
Opening track “Necrosis” is a savage attack from the outset with lashings of clean vocals midway which add a different dynamic before it’s once again back to the business of intentionally trying to maim your eardrums. An early contender for track of the album then makes itself known in the form “Self-Induced Lobotomy”. I especially love the drums on this one.
The urgent, gnarling guitar tones on “Eradication Chamber” blister into “Autophagia” which, if I had to pick a track to recommend, would be the one. It’s flawless and everything about it just blends so well together.
This album is full of earworms. “Lay Bleeding and Broken” revisits the cleaner style for the most part, and I loved this nearly as much as that bassline. One track that I am especially happy to see make it on the album, “Drowned In Rot”, has a phenomenal video that accompanies it and I highly recommend watching it. We can’t embed it because YouTube…
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The guttural “Cult of Decay” moving into “One With the Hammer” has a great transition and both paired incredibly well together. I found myself being drawn to the latter lyrically as it’s the one that stayed in my head most after the initial listens. If it isn’t already, then I can absolutely see “Corpses Without Number” being a firm live favourite.
“Dissection of the Living” almost feels that it was dug up in the dead of night, the riff on the latter part of the track is disgustingly moreish and “Mental Devastation” only elevates my previous statement. Lastly, much like a heroine who has tried to survive the inevitable fatal stab wound to the neck at the end of a slasher movie “Death Surrounds Me” swoops in and delivers the final blow. Although you see it coming you almost don’t want it to end.
A lethal injection into the death metal vein.
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The Abstract Grotesque is out January 28th
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