Artist: Abominablood
Country: Argentina
Label: Self-Released
Formats: Digital EP
Year: 2025
With quite an extensive discography, existing out of several demos, EP’s, split releases and three full-length albums, Argentinian Abominablood has increasingly perfected its take on the Black/Death Metal genre. Last year’s ‘Darkness In Planetary Transmutation’ was a particularly good example of a piece of music that clearly benefited from all the effort put into this project. However, this newest offering, a self-released 17-minute EP, shows that there’s clearly no end to the progression yet.
Bands like Teitanblood and Dead Congregation were always a clear inspiration for Abominablood, but that is getting more evident with each successive release. ‘Subterranean Prophecy’ again takes a step closer to what seems to be Luciano “Warpig” Cortez’ most prominent musical examples. This great EP is a textbook example of how this sort of music is supposed to be played: thunderous riffing, stunning dynamics and a an overall dark atmosphere, all poured in a situation of meticulously crafted and controlled chaos. Hints of Morbid Angel-like creativity and the heaviness and dark atmosphere of Imprecation further seal the deal, making Abominablood one of the best examples of Extreme Metal to come out of Argentina. The versatility in tempos and riff progressions make this a stunningly dynamic piece of Death Metal, worthy of the attention of slightly bigger labels and a wider overall recognition. In case you have enjoyed the work of the aforementioned Teitanblood, Dead Congregation and Imprecation as well as Wrathprayer, Heresiarch, Grave Miasma, Impetuous Ritual, Pseudogod, Antediluvian, Lvcifyre, Ignivomous, Witchrist and Adversarial…
While this sort of dark and overwhelming Death Metal with a solid Black Metal edge to it, isn’t exactly new and labels like Dark Descent Records and Nuclear Winter Records live off this stuff, it is still a welcome surprise to come across something like this. And it is even more enjoyable to see a band develop in this way and improve in quality with each consecutive release. Highly recommended, that is.
