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 early 2006 I had given up on Rancid Abomination and formed a new solo artist called Caustic Euphony. I stopped listening to Rancid Abomination because I was slowly drifting away from Black Metal. I tried listening to rancid Abomination one time and hated it due to an incident where my family hated some lyrics. That was bad. It made me hate the lyrics. I despised all the lyrics I wrote suddenly for the band, and in a fit of anger deleted ALL of it from my hard drive.
Now this would not have been a problem if
A) I backed it up first which I did not...
B) Hitman213 gave me back all the Rancid Abomination Cd's I gave him, which were quite a lot. He lost them...
Pretty soon I forgot about Rancid Abomination totally.. I had ditched it for it's "Evil" lyrics. I grew a conscience and moved on to Caustic Euphony, then later on Unleashing Vengeance... But something kept on making me want to go back to Rancid Abomination.. I never did till 2016. My brother complaining about my horrible lyrics sparked a lot of guilt in me and that was what really made me delete it all. I totally trashed 90% of all I wrote for the band from 2001-2006 due to this. I still have a few of the old cd's today but most are completely gone. I think I only have 3 out of 22 left... It's bad now. I lost a lot of great material. Older Rancid Abomination I forgot about. It was not worth it. But later Rancid Abomination from 2004-2006 was great musically and I forgot just how good it was.
To me for years, Rancid Abomination was my least favorite solo artist I have been part of. I hated it for years, unjustly. The complaint by my Brother sparked a lot of this. A fit of guilt rushed through me. It was disastrous. I killed Rancid Abomination in 2006 in a fit of stupidity that will never be repeated. So this is some advice for people out there. If you have great music you have written and it is not available to download somewhere else (it wasn't in my case), NEVER EVER delete it for stupid reasons. I learned my lesson..
Time went on without Rancid Abomination for years. I forgot about it... Caustic Euphony took over with it's folky vibe and Unleashing Vengeance's angry style made me a huge fan of it as well. I didn't need Rancid Abomination anymore. I gave up on it, and on Black Metal. I even ditched Dimmu and all other black metal bands and went down a road of Thrash and Power metal for years. I gave up on Black Metal as a whole thinking it was too evil. I got stupid and ditched a lot of Satanic Music I owned. I mean I never was a Christian, the lyrics weren't the problem, I just got dumb and deleted it all... I guess it made me nervous that If I listened to it, Demons would attack or something like that, so I abandoned all black metal for over 10 years, it was bad.
I eventually would get into folk metal and started listening to bands like Wintersun, Ensiferum, Korpiklaani (God help me), Finntroll and worse... And I loved it. Something was wrong with me. Only the first 2 are actually good. Most folk metal is crap. But I was stupid and Liked it. So I ditched Black Metal which was far better than I first thought for Folk Metal? I don't know, I think I was mentally Ill.. I was banging my head to Vodka by Korpiklaani and loving it... I listened to a lot of big folk metal bands and Actually liked them... But one big event and and one HUGE band would get me back into Black Metal..... That is for the next chapter.
I got into a lot of quality metal over that stretch from 2006 to 2015 though... Great Thrash Bands like Dew-Scented and Hexx, Amazing brutally heavy Scandanavian power Metal bands Like Persuader and Savage Circus, and Epic Power Metal bands from Denmark like Manticora. Not to mention some great bands Hitman213's friend Mike got me into like Mystic Prophecy. I also got into some really cool metal bands on internet radio such as Mercenary, Benediction, Summoning, and others. A lot of the great bands I discovered last year were actually played on this internet radio, including Windir and Melechesh but I forgot about both and went on to discover other bands... The next chapter takes place last year around August... It's about me getting back into Black metal after 10 years.
