REDEFINING EVIL: A JOURNEY INTO THE CREATION OF BOSTON BASED BLACK METAL SOLO ARTIST "RANCID ABOMINATION"
Author : Black Plague (The Founder of Rancid Abomination)
Abhorrence and Disgust was written in may 2004. It was a return to form for Rancid Abomination and it was a sudden change in genre as well. All older cd's were black metal or blackened death metal. On this cd Rancid Abomination became Melodic death metal. It still sounded evil as hell but the black metal elements were gone... I still used a lot of dark harmonies. The sound of the cd was a lot darker than you might think for a melodic death metal cd, but it still was not black metal.
Unfortunately I no longer have this cd. It died when I deleted 75% of ra's catalog in 2006. That was a huge mistake. That is for another chapter. It sucks. It was one of my favorites for years..
The sound on this cd was PURE EVIL. It had some of the most evil melodies I wrote. I remember them well, well at least what emotions they brought on. They were as dark as you can get... Very oppressive feeling you got by listening to this cd...
The sound on this cd really changed Rancid Abomination for the better. One previous Cd's delayed harmonies were rarely being used but on this one they were being used a lot. It helped to bring out that evil sound. I think this is the first cd to really make use of delayed harmonies right. The next few were even better..
On the heels of Abhorrence of Disgust came the Stench of Despair. While this cd was not as good as Abhorrence and Disgust it had one great great song on it, Harbinger! You may be familiar with a rancid abomination song recorded last year called Harbinger of Fate. That was a sequel to this song. This song was quite nice. It had a really creepy opening melody, which was recreated quite nice on harbinger of fate to open that song, which was more of a tribute to harbinger than a remake. Since harbinger is gone, I only have harbinger of fate to replace it.
The stench of despair was followed up by many cd's. I don't remember their names exactly but I remember a few of these titles. One I do remember was Accursed Humanity. Accursed humanity was a weird cd because it was more thrashy black metal than anything done before. The riffs were more like black metal and it kind of sounded like Celtic Frost. It was a cd that attacked the Presidential Campaign of President George W Bush heavily, in fact the whole cd was about crap he started. It was a heavily paranoia induced cd. A lot of it was not really true but some of it scared me. Things like extreme treatments for people with mental illnesses, where there "illnesses" were nothing but anti-government opinions. The title track was about that whole thing but the fact that that thing was gotten from a Conspiracy Site made me believe it then, I was a believer not a skeptic then so I believed EVERYTHING they put out... Now I am a skeptic, not a hardcore one but I believed a lot back then, like there were Aliens on Earth, that abductions by Aliens were real, that things like Bigfoot were real, and now I don't believe any of that anymore because I've wised up. But that belief made me believe the thing about mental illnesses so I wrote a very paranoia induced title track about that, and that album is what I named my youtube channel after, the one I host all my music.
The music for the title track is what I remember about this cd mostly. It had a really cool part with clean vocals. I loved it. I put this song on lots of compilations as well, to play on XMAS.
The next few cd's were only ok but one really stood out.. I totally forget the name of this cd... But I call it "CD 5" a lot. That was not it's real name, because I don't remember the name. But on this cd, which was a lot like Abhorrence and Disgust Musically, the melodies were the best RA would ever ever write. It had a few interesting songs, like one about the Movie ALIEN which came out great, and another song about some kind of corruption that was great as well.. This cd was one of my favorites. But alas a don't have more than a single song from this whole time period from the bleeding till into hell.. In fact the one song I have is a classic called Bastards of the Light. When I first wrote it, which was around XMAS 2005, I made it sound like Accursed Humanity a lot, and I didn't like it much then, but I love it now and it became a huge favorite of mine to listen to in 2016.
This whole period would be closed off with the final cd rancid abomination would do for over 10 years, called "Slaughtering Hypocrisy". This cd... Frankly... SUCKED. It was horrible.. And due to it unformed Rancid Abomination later...'
Part of the reason I unformed it was due to it's HORRIBLE lyrics in 2004-2005. They were at it's worst. They were far worse than 2003. Satanic, Disgusting, Violent, evil, all of those x50. I never had much in the way of conscience back then and I did write it to piss off idiots who were always at my family get togethers but that's why I think it's so evil.. I don't remember too many songs I wrote but 2 stand out...
One was an anti-crappy music song and I used the word "Faggotry" to describe it . That was bad. Another was about how kids are getting too much free passes when it comes down to discipline... These songs were quite evil and I have never written anything so evil in my life. I would tone it down later but back then it was quite bad. I wrote a ton of songs like these over it's career... Ones that were about crap like this...
None of the material past the Bleeding was shared on Mp3.com and since no one liked it, I had no reason to do the sharing thing there. I decided to keep Rancid Abomination to my self from 2005-2016. I would later upload it to soundcloud and then Jamendo after I found that platform and it got tons of plays there but at the time, Rancid Abomination was NOT liked by anyone but me and my best friend Hitman213. It was as KVLT as you can get!
I kept it all to myself for years. Only my family heard it. My brother and my Brother in Law liked it but that's it. It never got big at all till recently. Back then I didn't even know of twitter and facebook so It wasn't online. The one bit of buzz it created is when I uploaded one song to youtube with the title "Abomination - the most underrated black metal band ever!" and that got mentioned on some boards.ie site, and someone called it the most pissed off sounding song ever. I don't remember what song I used but I think it was over my dead body from the bleeding.
So nobody knew of Rancid Abomination's great stuff I did in 2004-2005 till much much later, and only the song Bastards of the light in this case... It was crappy for it to end like this but.... It was not over for RA despite it being killed... I would come back to it in 2016!
