Rancid Abomination would record it's 23'rd cd "Into Hell" in September 2016, approx. 10 years after it split up in 2006. This one was a lot different than old Rancid Abomination... Number 1, the sound was a lot less dark sounding. It sounded more like later Rancid Abomination stuff like CD 5 than the stuff done in 2003-2004. The delayed harmonies were all over it and they sounded great. But the added boost of finally doing a well produced Black Metal album was great too.. Over the years between Slaughtering Hypocrisy and this, my knowledge of Mixing Software and Effect plugins increased by 50x. I had a great guitar sound I could use thanks to Unleashing Vengeance work in 2013-2015, which all used Cortex Stack for the guitars. Cortex stack is brilliant. It's a virtual amp. Very customize able, even has a cabinet built in to improve the sound. The sound I used in cortex stack was highly overdriven and I loved it. Putting it into Rancid Abomination made it more of a melodeth styled thing but it worked...
My vocals however, were not the same. They were done when no one was home one sunday and they sounded HORRIBLE. The cd came out bad due to this and this alone. Too bad the music was quite awesome on this cd. I loved the way I wrote it. GREAT melodies were being used. It brought back the classic feel of RA Perfectly. If only the vocals were better...
The lyrics were hilarious. They were just like oldschool 2003 era Rancid Abomination stuff.. Here is a small sample of the song "Smelly Hell".....
"Smelly hell
Hell doth smell
The truth it compell
Fat assholes
Smelly hell awaiteth thee
First your dog will die
infested by maggots that will eat the eyes
then your cat will go psycho
eat your wife
Then the maggots on the crib
devour the baby as he is ruptured whole
then comes the devouring
your soul will be eateth tonight
in smelly hell
in smelly hell
in smelly hell
in smelly hell
you will not survive
munch munch munch dead baby (4x)
to the maggots the meat is tasty
yummy and juicy
as the baby rots in pain
we will eat it and your brains"
I took a month off in October to rest my vocal chords and enjoy Into Hell a lot. I came back in November to write what would be one of RA's Funniest Cd's ever "The Exploding Death of Christmas". I thought one day in November, that a really bad parody "Christmas CD" is what Rancid Abomination should do for XMAS. I wanted to do a horrible Anti-XMAS Festivity cd targeting
A) XMAS Cartoons
B) XMAS Carols
C) XMAS Crap like decorating the tree and similar stuff..
I ended up going the full monty on this one hence the title and songs like:
"Slaughtered Santa Sausage"
"The Exploding death of Christmas : Die little drummer boy!"
"Yuletide Anusfart"
"Pissing on the Christmas Tree"
"Shove your Christmas Carols up your ass"
It was a blast to record. It's the longest cd I've ever done for Rancid Abomination in tracks as well due to the slew of song remakes included on it.. I think it's like 17 tracks long... Overall the remakes stole the show. The original songs were slightly worse. I still liked them but the album didn't really feel like what a Rancid Abomination Album should feel like. The remakes helped a lot though to bring back classic tracks from the dead. See I kept an old backup of guitar tracks, drum tracks, etc, and I found a lot of old songs and redid them. It was worth it... Classics like Lycanthropia, Terrible Wickedness. I redid a lot of songs from scratch as well. Overall this cd was great... I started doing dark night time music videos as well for the songs on this cd... It was fun as hell to do them.
I did a lot of videos. Like 12 or so on my youtube channel. I always wore a sweatshirt jacket with a hood on to make me look like a cultist. I thought that was a cool touch... The videos came out great. It was a ton of fun making them. I always did them at night with all the lights turned off...
Overall this cd was great.... But the next cd would dwarf it totally... In fact until the next one Rancid Abomination didn't really sound like classic RA at all....
Enter.... The Devouring...
