Abortion Sacrament by CREMATION GROUNDS

Similar to the recent online-only (thus far) release of the long-thought-lost CREMATION GROUNDS full-length "Lord Of Nerves", the 20-minute EP "Abortion Sacrament" is another recording that was produced in the late 2000s and had been thought lost for fifteen years due to the destruction of the hard drive that contained the original masters.

As part of a recent organizing effort here at Crucial Blast, almost all of these recordings were recently rescued from that cursed external drive, and have been resurrected for your listening displeasure.

The three-track "Abortion Sacrament" EP is the very first release that Cremation Grounds recorded around 2008-2009, and like other recordings of the era, dislodges a bog-damn of insanely misanthropic black noise, buried no-fi industrial noise-sludge, crushing harsh-noise-wall style constructions, and an overdriven recording style that may well have been itself the cause of that hard drive's suffering and collapse. Again, the gist of these tracks is pure in-the-red evil electronic obliteration, much of it crafted by the entities behind Cremation Grounds as a kind of "meditation through abomination" strategy, utilizing the recordings for deep meditative sessions typically accompanied by entheogens, psychedelics (both natural and otherwise), acts of self-debasement and self-abuse, scatalogical ritual, and the disintegration of the ego in the churning jet-black oceans of searing distortion and low-end rumbling rot that dominate the sessions.

"Abortion Sacrament" does not have quite as much of the molten scum-dirge that is found on the "Lord Of Nerves" full-length. But these three tracks make up for it in all-out sense-wrecking chaos and over-modulated electronic violence. Drums, vocals and percussion all exist within the roiling black-static detonations of the title track and "Spread Wide Upon Her Cremation Grounds (Adorned In Bone Ornaments)", but they have been destroyed completely by walls of crumbling, crackling electronic distortion, with the occasional muffled roar of guttural, monstrous vocalizations breaking through the carnage.

As with the album, this material skews hard towards the harsh noise / black noise end of the sound spectrum, but likewise takes a great deal of inspiration from the diabolic filth of ancient, dissolving Finnish black / demos. This sonic abhorrence crawls before the cracked and damaged altars of Macronympha, the no-fi bestial hiss of the earliest Beherit demos, classic Japanese noise a la Pain Jerk and Incapacitants, and the aura of eighth-generation dubs of Archgoat rehearsal tapes, all grown together into a swollen, pulsating, cancerous mass of cacophonous horror.

Tracklist

1.	Abortion Sacrament (Devil Rite)	5:18

2.	They Will Make Cemeteries Their Cathedrals And The Cities Will Be Your Tombs	11:57

3.	Spread Wide Upon Her Cremation Grounds (Adorned In Bone Ornaments)	3:19

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released September 22, 2023

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