Coathanger Abortion has a new option.
Formed in 2000 in the United States, the band composed of Scott McMasters (drums/vocals, Pale Rider), Robby Wooten (vocals, ex-Hydrocephalic), Ryan Coulter (guitar/bass, Beeravore, ex-Cesspool of Vermin) and more recently Ethan Frazier (guitar, Manic Scum) re-signs with Comatose Music for the release of Plan C, its third album.
The album is opened by What Lies Underneath, a rather dark composition which allows as much room for the massive rhythmic as for the more technical riffs overlaid with bestial screams. Moshparts and heady complexity easily answer each other, letting the band hit as hard as precisely before Corpsewood offers more Old School patterns which will emphasize raw violence. As for the vocals, we stay in these sticky and heavy guttural screams, letting the band spread all its heaviness just like on Dead Walking and its catchy riffs tinged with dissonant harmonics. The band plays with these spontaneous accelerations to accentuate the song’s brutality before a thick and driving break, then the jerky rhythm of Dissecting Society strikes us with its raw rage. The bass sound comes out very well in the mix, which confirms once again the quartet’s influences just like on the energetic Millville Madness which connects the complex and heady parts while remaining coherent. The moshparts don’t hesitate to use simpler but crushing patterns before giving way to Randomly Butchered, an explosive composition which combines heaviness and extreme speed to stay in a wave of uninterrupted violence before placing dissonant and unexpected riffs. A siren announces us the beginning of Silent Screams, a rather groovy composition which knows how to accelerate to become more and more lively and catchy before crushing us with its moshparts, then the band closes its album with Cannibal Crave, a cover of Broken Hope which remains in the general theme, namely a raw and uncompromising violence while letting some mastery show through.
I never heard of Coathanger Abortion before, but it is undeniable the band knows what it is doing when it comes to Death Metal. Plan C mixes massive vocals with aggressive, heavy and controlled riffs. Nothing revolutionary, but an unstoppable efficiency!
90/100
