It's paradoxically as hard to recommend Abyss as it is to dismiss them. As a set, the 8 song durations on the "Heretical Anatomy" album match a punk rock collection, clocking in at 3:01, 3:35, 1:40, 0:52, 2:01, 2:00, 5:37, and 1:43. That's where the punk similarities end, though, as this is an unfiltered, undiluted, retrograde Death Metal album. There's not a single phrase or note on here that sounds any newer than 1987. There are probably fewer changes on the entire album than other prog-Death Metal bands have before the third solo in their individual songs. Socially-conscious lyrics and introspection are also not to be found here (and I'm pretty sure ‘Thrall of the Elder Gods’ is not a love song.); they deal directly and fully in horror and the macabre.

Short, simple, basic, unmistakably tasty with no nutritional value; "Heretical Anatomy" is like a late-night trip through the Death Metal Drive-Thru. Fans of old school Kreator, Death, Carcass, Possessed, or young Cavalera Sepultura should pull up to the next window.