REDEFINING EVIL: A JOURNEY INTO THE CREATION OF BOSTON BASED BLACK METAL SOLO ARTIST "RANCID ABOMINATION"
Author : Black Plague (The Founder of Rancid Abomination)
In January 2003 I was in a bad state. Some hack reviewer called RA Crap. So I did something about it. I decided to change the style of RA Completely. Rancid Abomination was no longer going to be some bad Dimmu Ripoff. I decided to invent a new style.. But I did it by complete accident. The new style I call "new england style", It's a weird name but when I wrote Eternal Hate and Pestilence (which I will call EHAP for Short from now on), I wasn't trying to create this style. But this style later on turned into the sound Rancid Abomination would use for about 75% of it's careeer. This style involves layering melodies consisting of notes that turn into sinister harmonies over thrashy riffs that follow the same tune as the notes. The sound sort of sounds like Something between Black metal and Power Metal. Throw in blastbeats and it becomes very black metal oriented but the riffs are different so it isn't typical black metal. I wasn't using black metal chords then and would never use them for 80% of RA's career. The actual sound created by this new cd would be a landmark though for me... I single handedly made a cd that could be called atmospheric as well and that is huge.
EHAP was a very creepy cd. It had bad bad production but it had really creepy keyboards and lead guitar harmonies. 3 or 4 tracks on it stood out. Addicted to evil was brutal and sinister and was about that person who gave RA a 0 on godsofmusic.com that I wrote about in chapter 2. A Dismal Euphony of humanity was a creepy slow song. Then came another song and after that came 3 songs in a row that defined this style the cd had. A legendary sound. The first of 3 was a lot like addicted to evil but sounded cool with a creepy intro piano melody. It sounded epic at the beginning, but in the chorus came the delayed harmony (the name I use to describe notes that become harmonies), and that Delayed harmony was creepy. Then after that song came the epic song something horrible. This song was X-Files Inspired, being inspired by the Episodes "Squeeze" and "Tooms". This song was epic and symphonic and is my favorite RA song ever. It is absolutely amazing sounding and if you like creepy atmospheric black metal, this song is good for that. The song after was not symphonic, it was called "Necrotizing Fasciitis" and it was a lot faster but had a creepy delayed harmony as well. This cd was very creepy, and rarely used symphonic elements. It was a change for the band, and it still like it today.
In fact it's sound was so hard to recreate that I never did it again till late 2016. It's very hard to write creepy sounding music, so much harder than evil sounding stuff, you will never believe it. I still am not very good at writing it, even today. I have done a few songs that fit this bill, but for the most part I don't do it well.. The follow ups for this cd were not nearly as creepy or impressive, and the band would not get good again till around 2004. It went through a huge nose-dive after this cd... I say until 2004 the band was average to bad, this cd was the only exception...
EHAP has the sound that I like for Rancid Abomination. It has THE sound. It sounds fast and thrashy but also sounds very atmospheric. It's the one cd RA would do that I would call Atmospheric Black Metal. All the others I don't know what to call them.. I am torn between calling it Black Metal, Blackened Power Metal or something else. But this one is a landmark cd... It is brutal but also has a the creepy vibe thanks to the harmonies. They ended up sounding so eerie. I don't think I've ever done eerier melodies in the 2001-2006 material. Of course in 2016 I recorded the Devouring but that was way later. That one was actually more creepy but that is for much later.
Another thing that made this cd creepy was it's vocals. Earlier Rancid Abomination had really bad black metal screams that sounded terrible. But this cd pioneered a new vocal style, a quietly whispered/growled style that sounds high pitched and creepy. I like it a lot. It doesn't sound like black metal too much but it's scary.
Most of the Rancid Abomination Cd's use this style. A few use the older style, even some from 2016, but mostly this style was being used till I invented a third style in 2017. But that is for later.
