Toronto, Ontario-based death metal horde, ABYSS, begins their West Coast Anatomization today, the tour set to invade ten-cities over the next week-and-a-half. Kicking of tonight in Vancouver, British Columbia, the quartet will then bulldoze south down the coastline, storming Olympia, Seattle, Portland, Sacramento, Los Angeles, Bakersfield, San Jose, Oakland and San Francisco, where the tour ends on August 8th.
Following the release of their Heretical Anatomy debut LP through 20 Buck Spin in April, critical acclaim on ABYSS‘s abusive death metal reigned in from around the smoldering globe, praising the band’s ability to craft the genre’s classic stylings into a modernized delivery without impeding on the legitimacy of the founding source material. North American crust metal tones attribute themselves to a thunderous bed of Scandinavian-inspired death worship in a flawlessly executed slab of primal metallic output. Since the release of Heretical Anatomy, ABYSS has performed regionally, including supporting the almighty Bolt Thrower, but has yet to tackle a mass accumulation of human civilizations in support of the record, until now, with the proclamation of West Coast Anatomization.
ABYSS West Coast Anatomization Tour:
7/30/2015 Black Lab – Vancouver, BC
7/31/2015 Obsidian – Olympia, WA
8/01/2015 Black Lodge – Seattle, WA
8/02/2015 High Water Mark – Portland, OR
8/03/2015 Press Club – Sacramento, CA
8/04/2015 Star Lanes – Los Angeles, CA
8/05/2015 Babylon – Bakersfield, CA
8/06/2015 TBA – San Jose, CA w/ Ask A Cop
8/07/2015 First Church Of The Buzzard – Oakland, CA
8/08/2015 The Knockout – San Francisco, CA
Recorded and engineered by Chris Hegge at Audiolab, Toronto Joel Grind of Toxic Holocaust adds his touch to the production of Heretical Anatomy, mixing and mastering ABYSS‘s malformed death metal and the horror of its Lovecraftian persona. A record which has devotees of Napalm Death, Exhumed, Repulsion, Impaled, Noisem, Terrorizer, Carcass, Axis Of Advance, and 20 Buck Spin labelmates, Mammoth Grinder and Bone Sickness, circling like vultures, Heretical Anatomy unloads the frenzied blasting of early American and UK death metal and grindcore, before a distinct separation between the two existed.
ABYSS’ Heretical Anatomy can be streamed in its entirety via Soundcloud HERE and Bandcamp HERE.
Orders for the vinyl version of Heretical Anatomy can be placed HERE and the digital HERE. All LP orders placed directly through 20 Buck Spin include a download coupon.
“This says it all: eight songs, twenty minutes. No atmospheric or spooky dirges overstaying their welcome. There isn’t even enough time to cough the crypt dust out of your lungs before the next track claws the silence between songs to shreds.” – Decibel Magazine
“Death metal needs to be fucked up and unforgiving in its execution, and it’s abundantly clear that the Toronto-based ABYSS have that concept at the appropriately gnarled and mutilated heart of their music…” – Steel For Brains
“To say this is a nasty record is an understatement. This album is a dump truck full of dynamite, with the brakes cleanly cut and careening downhill at a nuclear reactor. It’s a fantastically horrific affair and completely unrelenting from note one to the final crashing down of it all. If they handed out awards for longest sustained moment of mosh pit inducing sounds this album would walk away the winner hands down.” – Metal Insider
For interviews with ABYSS throughout the tour, review copies of Heretical Anatomy and other coverage of the band contact dave@earsplitcompound.com.
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