REDEFINING EVIL: A JOURNEY INTO THE CREATION OF BOSTON BASED BLACK METAL SOLO ARTIST "RANCID ABOMINATION"
Author : Black Plague (The Founder of Rancid Abomination)
By 1998 or so I started taking Guitar lessons and drum lessons. I got good around 2001 or so. It took lots of practice to get good. Writing metal at first was hard as hell for me in 2000. My first band sucked horribly. Everything about it was bad. Vocals = Terrible. Production = Shit (I was using a 4 track recorder to mix it that my mom bought for me in 2000). I called this band Metal Massacre. It was an absolute joke of a band. In fact it was so horrible that I no longer even listen to it, and I listen to my own bands music quite a bit... But my music would not stay terrible for long. In May of 2001 Rancid Abomination would be formed by Me and Hitman213. Hitman213 was a friend of mine I've had for years and is probably my best friend. We went through Highschool together... It was his idea to name the band Rancid Abomination. He called me on the phone one day and said "Rancid Abomination would be a great name for a band", so I decided to form Rancid Abomination then... I was going to do music and he was going to do vocals. Of course he could not do vocals for all songs but he did a few on the very first Rancid Abomination album "Carnal Necromancers of the Apocalypse".
Carnal Necromancers of the apocalypse was no different than any Symphonic Black Metal cd but it was far worse production wise. Using a 4 track recorder to record music was a mistake. The sound got clipped horribly. This was the way all of the early Rancid Abomination sounded. Terrible. Stuff from 2001 is barely listenable, in quality. It would not get better till 2002 or so. But in 2001 I thought it was fine back then. Back then I had no clue how bad the stuff sounded in 2001. It was horrible. Of course I did the stupid thing and uploaded it to mp3.com. No one liked it. Shitty production and lyrics... It pissed me off so I kept on trying to improve Rancid Abomination, but no matter how much I tried to improve RA, the response was the same. Today I blame the site. Their fanbase doesn't respect black metal. Of course they have no fanbase now, they were taken offline in 2003 and all the music I hosted was DELETED without my consent. Not good... In fact I lost a lot of rancid abomination material over the years, that's part of the reason it was reformed in 2016.
But for now the band really didn't do well. Several albums were done. Some were OK... But most were crappy. Darkness Falls, Prepare to Die, A2K, Enveloped by Darkness, Under the Shadow of the Dark Moon, STTAM, The Horrible stench of death. All of these cd's were bad. In fact Rancid Abomination would not do a single good cd till January 2003! This is what my Black Metal solo artist started like - Disgustingly pitiful for anything, especially black metal. A lot of the material back then was super happy, it was really nothing but iron maiden + keyboards + bad bad crappy black metal vocals.
But some of it is ok I guess. I don't listen to old old rancid abomination, because to me It's not worth listening to at all.. You learn things over time. Like how to compose good music, how to mix it right, how to do proper vocals. how to make guitar sound good.. I had learned how to do NONE of this in 2001. By 2003 the first of those 3 was taken care of but the other 3 were not learned until 2006! So a lot of Rancid Abomination's Early Career sounds really lofi, hell early material from 2001-2006 does not sound good production wise. Good thing it's black metal.
One of the things that makes Rancid Abomination different than other black metal bands is the disgusting lyrical content... Rancid Abomination is half black metal half shock rock. I was listening to a lot of bands like GWAR and such in 2001 when I formed RA. It showed. Disgusting lyrics about maggots devouring corpses and stuff was something Gwar wrote about. When I heard that song "maggots" I immediately loved it. So I thought let's write satanic maggot metal! I invented the concept of the "infernal Baby Eating maggot from hell!". Practically ever song I wrote had the following things...
A) Tons of swears
B) Tons of References to Satanism
C) Tons of references to Infernal maggots devouring young children
D) Tons of references to x-rated crap...
Trust me when I say that this stuff I wrote makes most black metal look tame lyrically... Here is a small sample... It's the only one I want to show off in this blog for now.. It's sort of tame compared to others I wrote...
"The curse is upon thou
thy body hath been scarred
thy deseased ways
shall now be punished
Plague of deth by cast apron thee
open sores infect bloody maggots apron thee
Maggots eating thy infected bodies!
Thy be disemboweled by thy infection
Devil plague implode thy intestines
thy maggot corpses rot in the sand
Thy soul is raped by thy blackest plague!
Thy brains explode from thy disease!
Open sores attract flies to eat apron thee
Thy eyes burst open revealing maggots chewing on them
Thy soul is raped by thy blackest plague!
You are all victims, victims of fate
you shall suffer eternally!
There is no cure!
No fucking cure!
You will rott!
IN HELL!
Plague of deth cast apron thee
open sores infect bloody maggots apron thee
Maggots eating the brains of thy bodies!
Their souls are raped by thy blackest plague!
Blackest plague!"
Yeah... That's what I was writing for the band... I .look back at it and laugh today, but back then it was offensive enough for me to get in trouble with my idiot family. My family HATED it and really don't like my music much now... It got them upset like crazy in 2004 and 2005. It was disgustingly evil back then.. The above sample is quite tame in comparison to the stuff that got me in trouble...
But the biggest problem with early Rancid Abomination is lack of originality. It went back in forth between 2 different styles a lot (and that's a problem with any 2001-2006 RA Stuff you can name per year). Those two styles were A) Badly done Symphonic BM and B) Thrashy BM with Power metal elements. By far B) was more interesting to me now, but back then I called it all black metal. Even though none of it actually sounded like actual black metal. See black metal has a penchant for using evil evil sounding chord styles. Ugly chords are all black metal bands use. Normal ones you hear in heavy metal or even thrash metal were never even used much in most black metal bands. But Rancid Abomination had a single big problem. It never used these chords back then, and in fact not till 2004 did they get used slightly. But for the most part, Rancid Abomination never used Black Metal Chords. It used riffs that were very similar to Thrash 90% of the time. That made it sound not very good for black metal. And the older stuff sounded crappy as hell. It was too happy, the evil chords were not there to make it sound evil as hell. So it failed...
Early material also had tons and tons of production problems. Pops and clicks, clipping ,etc. This was all due to my 4 track being terrible. Never ever use a 4 track to record music, even black metal. It doesn't make the music sound KVLT people, it makes it sound like Shitcore. It's crappy. Always use a PC to mix! I learned that the hard will in 2003. I switched over to a PC that year. The improvement was massive. I got cubase VST on my OLD PC as free software and mixed great music for years with it.
But the Mp3.com sheninacrap would not end. Me submitting RA's music to Godsofmusic.com lead to more bullshit (a 0 review by some stupid anti-metal idiot there! - Susan Ramson is her name) forced me to change up Rancid Abomination... In a way this event is what made Rancid Abomination finally good, Ironically. But i didn't like it .Shit reviewers who don't know the difference between Black and Death metal are stupid idiots and Ramson is the biggest turd of a reviewer. I was doing black metal in 2003 when this happened. It always had black metal vocals and black metal production. But Rancid Abomination's sheer moment of brilliance in it's first 3 years of existence was about to happen... The recording of it's best cd ever, "Eternal Hate and Pestilence"...
