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 January 2004 the followup to EHAP was being worked on. Originally titled something completely different than the final title I would give it "The Bleeding", this cd was a cd that went through several different iterations before the final one was released. I wrote a lot of subpar music for this cd initially and some good songs as well. They all went into the original version of it. That original version however, turned out to be quite terrible sounding... The riff writing was quite bad and sloppy. Songs sounded like something like a thrashy black/death metal mix but didn't sound good minus a few. I ended up writing the title track which was called the bleeding, but it was really really bad too.. So I scrapped it minus 2 tracks and blew it up and redid it a week later.
The final version was done later and most of the music was re-written for it and it came out much better. However the sound for it was a lot different than before. It was no longer Black Metal! Now it was something along the lines of Power metal with black metal vocals, minus the title track which was also redone and made into a black metal song. The song "entrance" by Dimmu Borgir was it's influence but it didn't sound just like it either, it sounded different at times, more power metally as well. This new title track ripped the old crappy one to shreds and became one of my favorite Rancid Abomination songs of all time. For years it would go on every single XMAS Compilation I made for family members who liked RA back then. That would not last however, eventually one family member would throw a fit about the lyrical content and people stopped liking it, but that was at least 1 year down the road from when the bleeding came out..
This recording however was quite sloppy, even in itself, I listened to it a couple of times recently and it really isn't that great. A few songs are good but most songs are quite crappy and it shows. It is nothing like EHAP in atmosphere and sounds more catchy and flashy sounding. But it fails because the timing is all fucked up. It isn't really that good of a rancid abomination cd, but a lot of stuff I would write later would make it look good.
A lot of later stuff done in 2004 was not very good. In fact the next cd was badly done as well and all the ones done after that simply weren't that good.. It would not be till the amazing cd "Abhorrence and Disgust" recorded in may 2004 that I finally pulled Rancid Abomination out of the huge pit it built up for itself and from there on Rancid Abomination was amazing. Never did a single bad cd for years after that and that went on into 2005. I did a lot over these 1 1/2 years and a lot were not great but all were pretty good from this point on into 2005. By 2006 the band got bad again and broke up for over 10 years...
