ABIGAIL:
The band was founded in 1992. The first demos were recorded together with Barbatos (bass, vocals), Y. Ono (drums) and Yasunori Nagamine (guitar). EP Descending from a Blackend Sky recorded Yasuyuki Suzuki alone. Suzuki negotiated a contract with the Australian label Modern Invasion. So Abigail made the recordings for the debut album Intercourse & Lust. Meanwhile, a split CD with the Dutch band Funeral Winds was recorded, which was initially limited to 700 pieces, as well as the single Confound Eternal, on the Youhei first time as a drummer participated. Because of the dissatisfaction with the sales of Intercourse & Lust, the cooperation of Modern Invasion was terminated.
It took two years to complete the debut album. It was finally published in May 1997. Between 1997 and 2001, the band mostly paused. Suzuki and Yasunori founded, along with Mirai Kawashima of Sigh, the project Cutthroat at this time. In 2001, Abigail came back with a split single along with Decayed. Abigail covered it with bulldozers. It was followed by the EP Welcome All Hell Fuckers, which was released via the French label Drakkar Productions. Shortly thereafter, Abigail played for the first time in North America. Together with the Japanese band Anwyl she toured under the slogan Black Metal Yakuza. Several split singles, including Witchburner and Sabbath, followed. In October 2003, the band toured Europe with Morrigan and Eminence. In addition to two live albums also appeared the album Forever Street Metal Bitch.
Since 2003, the band has released several live, split and best-of albums. Sweet Baby Metal Slut, her last regular studio album, was released in 2009. From the original line-up, only Suzuki and Youhei are left, guitarist Yasunori left in 2005, before the third album, Ultimate Unholy Death. Abigail has not found a steady guitarist since. On the releases Suzuki plays all instruments apart from the drums, with live performances they help out with the help of guitarists of friendly bands. On Sweet Baby Metal Slut, Noboru "Jero" Sakuma from the Japanese heavy metal band Gorgon took over the lead guitars.
Music style and lyrics
Abigail plays a mixture of Thrash and Black Metal of the old school, whereby her early work represents a "pure" Black Metal sound and her late work is more oriented to Thrash Metal. Their influence includes mainly the Thrash and Speed Metal classics like Venom, Hellhammer and Sodom.
Characteristic, as with many Japanese bands, is the immense output of releases in single format. On the numerous releases, the members of the band often pay their tribute to unknown greats of the underground like Bulldozer and NME. The thrash metal of the band is not dissimilar to that of the Sabbath, but much more primitive and faster played.
The lyrics serve the typical metal clichés, but also build a connection to the Yakuza lifestyle. Occasionally Suzuki refers to his style as "Yakuza Metal". They often refer to themselves as "the most evil band in Japan."
"That lyrics are my life style. Metal is sex! Metal is beer! Ha ha. I'm really enjoy listening to metal music with drink beer. Beer and metal is my best medicine. " – Yasuyuki
On the relations with Germany (Suzuki published with Abigail a split EP with Morrigan and Barbatos one with the project Wolfsburg of the absurd singer Ronald Möbus) addressed, Suzuki replied that he was "very proud of the good relationship with Germany during the 2 World War ". The split EP with Morrigan should "demonstrate that the German-Japanese friendship will never die." In 2011, the release of a split EP with Akashah on Darker Than Black Records was announced; the EP was released in 2013.
Suzuki also plays in the Japanese thrash metal band Barbatos, was a short time member of Sigh and also plays in the thrash metal / D-beat band Tiger Junkies.
MANTAK:
This notorious gem was fiercely spawned in 1995 by using Waffat as their moniker, but due to another band using the same name at that time, they've changed the band's name to Mantak.
The band recorded their 1st demo tape in 1998 , ''The Borneo Chaosmakers''. The sound was totally 666% raw and really unpolished! In the following year they've entered the studio again to record their 2nd blasphemy entitled ''Sakhtyanic Doctrine'' (demo '99). This one has brought a recognition in the Malaysian extreme metal scene!
In 2000 Mantak has gotten an offer to deal with a Malaysian independent label Muzik Box Production. The same year they've recorded their 1st cass EP named 'Dark Borneo Art' and also 2 unreleased rites('Thy Dance of the Evil Bewitched' and 'And She Drink') for the biggest compilation in Malaysia called Panggilan Pulau Puaka Vol. 4 (Psychic Scream Entertainment). Those satanik symphonies are never to be recorded again in any other Mantak's release!!
Due to some problems both the band & the label were facing, Mantak left Muzik Box Production.
In 2002 they've signed a deal with the biggest Malaysian extreme metal label Nebiula Production thus in the same year their 1st cass LP "Eye Of Deviant" was recorded. Sadly the album has gotten bad reviews from most of Malaysian/South East Asia editors/metalheads. The band didn't give up easily and managed to record their 2nd album in 2003. This 2nd art of virgin desekrator is called "Polymorphous Perversion", also under the same label. Those gems of hell crushed the extreme metal ¡°black market¡± in Jan 2004! The album contained 8 songs of anti-religious supremacy! This time it is more aggressive, impolite, religious raping & 666% more cruel than their previous blasphemy. The lyricks are dealing about hatred, satanic lust, sex, darkness & priests sodomized! The USA based XXXtreme metal label OLD CEMETARY RECORDS re-released it later on for the USA legion on original CD format with different artwork+Bonus HellTraxxx!!!
In 2004 Mantak recorded one of the most hellish offering they've ever done in Nebiula Studio (Kuala Lumpur) for 4 traxxx hellhymns. Those song were at first published as a self-release entitled ''Thy Sexxxmageddon'' only for editors and labels around the world for promotion purposes. And in 2005 an underground France based Vinyl label Legion Of Death Records unleashed those helltraxxx in a 7" EP format under the title ''Eastern Sexxxrigalust''. Without a doubt this release helped to spread Mantak's name in the European Underground XXXtreme Metal Legion. After that, in 2006 Mantak's vomiting a split 7"EP ''Raping God's Law'' with the USA XXXtreme Black/Death Metal Amputator under Old Cemetary Records (USA) as a limited Red and Black Vinyl Version.
Next year broughtanother unchained Split 7" EP with Enshadowed - Greek Great Black Metaller, under a Japanese label Deathrash Armageddon Records.
In sept 2007 Mantak's new album Sabahell's Blasphemer was unleashed under French well known Black Metal label - Drakkar Productions...This one without a doubt presented the most Violent, Furious, Blasphemous and speed as hell Musick Mantak ever done!
Just few weeks after this release followed mentioned before re-release of Polymorphous Perversion - Mantak's 2nd full length by extreme metal label Old Cemetery Record. This edition included ''Dark Borneo Art EP'' traxxx as a bonus.
In 2010 the band decided to work with USA label again and through Old Cemetery Records the most well acclaimed and considered as the Mantak best album so far was unleashed, ''Diabolical Psycholust'' Beside OCR a young Malaysian label - Evil Dead Productions also released the album for the SEA underworld market. Evil Dead already collaborated with Mantak before on MCD 666 few months before.
2011 was a year of ''Terror Hail & Worship 666'' For the first time Mantak worked with a Sarawakian label - Menjrex Nerto Productions to release this tribute cover album.
The band was founded in 1992. The first demos were recorded together with Barbatos (bass, vocals), Y. Ono (drums) and Yasunori Nagamine (guitar). EP Descending from a Blackend Sky recorded Yasuyuki Suzuki alone. Suzuki negotiated a contract with the Australian label Modern Invasion. So Abigail made the recordings for the debut album Intercourse & Lust. Meanwhile, a split CD with the Dutch band Funeral Winds was recorded, which was initially limited to 700 pieces, as well as the single Confound Eternal, on the Youhei first time as a drummer participated. Because of the dissatisfaction with the sales of Intercourse & Lust, the cooperation of Modern Invasion was terminated.
It took two years to complete the debut album. It was finally published in May 1997. Between 1997 and 2001, the band mostly paused. Suzuki and Yasunori founded, along with Mirai Kawashima of Sigh, the project Cutthroat at this time. In 2001, Abigail came back with a split single along with Decayed. Abigail covered it with bulldozers. It was followed by the EP Welcome All Hell Fuckers, which was released via the French label Drakkar Productions. Shortly thereafter, Abigail played for the first time in North America. Together with the Japanese band Anwyl she toured under the slogan Black Metal Yakuza. Several split singles, including Witchburner and Sabbath, followed. In October 2003, the band toured Europe with Morrigan and Eminence. In addition to two live albums also appeared the album Forever Street Metal Bitch.
Since 2003, the band has released several live, split and best-of albums. Sweet Baby Metal Slut, her last regular studio album, was released in 2009. From the original line-up, only Suzuki and Youhei are left, guitarist Yasunori left in 2005, before the third album, Ultimate Unholy Death. Abigail has not found a steady guitarist since. On the releases Suzuki plays all instruments apart from the drums, with live performances they help out with the help of guitarists of friendly bands. On Sweet Baby Metal Slut, Noboru "Jero" Sakuma from the Japanese heavy metal band Gorgon took over the lead guitars.
Music style and lyrics
Abigail plays a mixture of Thrash and Black Metal of the old school, whereby her early work represents a "pure" Black Metal sound and her late work is more oriented to Thrash Metal. Their influence includes mainly the Thrash and Speed Metal classics like Venom, Hellhammer and Sodom.
Characteristic, as with many Japanese bands, is the immense output of releases in single format. On the numerous releases, the members of the band often pay their tribute to unknown greats of the underground like Bulldozer and NME. The thrash metal of the band is not dissimilar to that of the Sabbath, but much more primitive and faster played.
The lyrics serve the typical metal clichés, but also build a connection to the Yakuza lifestyle. Occasionally Suzuki refers to his style as "Yakuza Metal". They often refer to themselves as "the most evil band in Japan."
"That lyrics are my life style. Metal is sex! Metal is beer! Ha ha. I'm really enjoy listening to metal music with drink beer. Beer and metal is my best medicine. " – Yasuyuki
On the relations with Germany (Suzuki published with Abigail a split EP with Morrigan and Barbatos one with the project Wolfsburg of the absurd singer Ronald Möbus) addressed, Suzuki replied that he was "very proud of the good relationship with Germany during the 2 World War ". The split EP with Morrigan should "demonstrate that the German-Japanese friendship will never die." In 2011, the release of a split EP with Akashah on Darker Than Black Records was announced; the EP was released in 2013.
Suzuki also plays in the Japanese thrash metal band Barbatos, was a short time member of Sigh and also plays in the thrash metal / D-beat band Tiger Junkies.
MANTAK:
This notorious gem was fiercely spawned in 1995 by using Waffat as their moniker, but due to another band using the same name at that time, they've changed the band's name to Mantak.
The band recorded their 1st demo tape in 1998 , ''The Borneo Chaosmakers''. The sound was totally 666% raw and really unpolished! In the following year they've entered the studio again to record their 2nd blasphemy entitled ''Sakhtyanic Doctrine'' (demo '99). This one has brought a recognition in the Malaysian extreme metal scene!
In 2000 Mantak has gotten an offer to deal with a Malaysian independent label Muzik Box Production. The same year they've recorded their 1st cass EP named 'Dark Borneo Art' and also 2 unreleased rites('Thy Dance of the Evil Bewitched' and 'And She Drink') for the biggest compilation in Malaysia called Panggilan Pulau Puaka Vol. 4 (Psychic Scream Entertainment). Those satanik symphonies are never to be recorded again in any other Mantak's release!!
Due to some problems both the band & the label were facing, Mantak left Muzik Box Production.
In 2002 they've signed a deal with the biggest Malaysian extreme metal label Nebiula Production thus in the same year their 1st cass LP "Eye Of Deviant" was recorded. Sadly the album has gotten bad reviews from most of Malaysian/South East Asia editors/metalheads. The band didn't give up easily and managed to record their 2nd album in 2003. This 2nd art of virgin desekrator is called "Polymorphous Perversion", also under the same label. Those gems of hell crushed the extreme metal ¡°black market¡± in Jan 2004! The album contained 8 songs of anti-religious supremacy! This time it is more aggressive, impolite, religious raping & 666% more cruel than their previous blasphemy. The lyricks are dealing about hatred, satanic lust, sex, darkness & priests sodomized! The USA based XXXtreme metal label OLD CEMETARY RECORDS re-released it later on for the USA legion on original CD format with different artwork+Bonus HellTraxxx!!!
In 2004 Mantak recorded one of the most hellish offering they've ever done in Nebiula Studio (Kuala Lumpur) for 4 traxxx hellhymns. Those song were at first published as a self-release entitled ''Thy Sexxxmageddon'' only for editors and labels around the world for promotion purposes. And in 2005 an underground France based Vinyl label Legion Of Death Records unleashed those helltraxxx in a 7" EP format under the title ''Eastern Sexxxrigalust''. Without a doubt this release helped to spread Mantak's name in the European Underground XXXtreme Metal Legion. After that, in 2006 Mantak's vomiting a split 7"EP ''Raping God's Law'' with the USA XXXtreme Black/Death Metal Amputator under Old Cemetary Records (USA) as a limited Red and Black Vinyl Version.
Next year broughtanother unchained Split 7" EP with Enshadowed - Greek Great Black Metaller, under a Japanese label Deathrash Armageddon Records.
In sept 2007 Mantak's new album Sabahell's Blasphemer was unleashed under French well known Black Metal label - Drakkar Productions...This one without a doubt presented the most Violent, Furious, Blasphemous and speed as hell Musick Mantak ever done!
Just few weeks after this release followed mentioned before re-release of Polymorphous Perversion - Mantak's 2nd full length by extreme metal label Old Cemetery Record. This edition included ''Dark Borneo Art EP'' traxxx as a bonus.
In 2010 the band decided to work with USA label again and through Old Cemetery Records the most well acclaimed and considered as the Mantak best album so far was unleashed, ''Diabolical Psycholust'' Beside OCR a young Malaysian label - Evil Dead Productions also released the album for the SEA underworld market. Evil Dead already collaborated with Mantak before on MCD 666 few months before.
2011 was a year of ''Terror Hail & Worship 666'' For the first time Mantak worked with a Sarawakian label - Menjrex Nerto Productions to release this tribute cover album.
OCR 15
-Tracklist:
1. Abigail - Hellfire and Damnation 03:08
2. Abigail - Bitch! We Gonna Kill You 02:36
3. Abigail - Mephistopheles 03:39
4. Abigail - Attack with Spell 03:29
5. Abigail - Louder Than Hell (NME cover) 01:56
6. Abigail - Charge! 02:29
7. Abigail - We're the Pussy Hunter 01:56
8. Abigail - Hey Slut! 03:04
9. Abigail - Prophecy of the Evening Star 03:08
10. Abigail - War 666 02:35
11. Mantak - Thy Paranormal Feminine 06:13
12. Mantak - Dark Imaginations 04:53
13. Mantak - Cruelty Than Ever 03:41
14. Mantak - Thy Paranormal Feminine 07:01
15. Mantak - Thy Dance (live) 01:13
16. Mantak - Thy Sexxxmageddon (live) 04:17
17. Mantak - Blasphemer (Sodom cover) (live) 02:24
2. Abigail - Bitch! We Gonna Kill You 02:36
3. Abigail - Mephistopheles 03:39
4. Abigail - Attack with Spell 03:29
5. Abigail - Louder Than Hell (NME cover) 01:56
6. Abigail - Charge! 02:29
7. Abigail - We're the Pussy Hunter 01:56
8. Abigail - Hey Slut! 03:04
9. Abigail - Prophecy of the Evening Star 03:08
10. Abigail - War 666 02:35
11. Mantak - Thy Paranormal Feminine 06:13
12. Mantak - Dark Imaginations 04:53
13. Mantak - Cruelty Than Ever 03:41
14. Mantak - Thy Paranormal Feminine 07:01
15. Mantak - Thy Dance (live) 01:13
16. Mantak - Thy Sexxxmageddon (live) 04:17
17. Mantak - Blasphemer (Sodom cover) (live) 02:24
-Line up:
Abigail:
- Yasuyuki Suzuki: Vocals, Guitars, Bass
- Youhei: Drums
- Asuka: Guitars
Mantak:
- Naz: Guitars
- Shaun Yazeed: Drums
- Lee: Bass
- Ironez: Drums
- Kevin Helvete: Bass.
- Yasuyuki Suzuki: Vocals, Guitars, Bass
- Youhei: Drums
- Asuka: Guitars
Mantak:
- Naz: Guitars
- Shaun Yazeed: Drums
- Lee: Bass
- Ironez: Drums
- Kevin Helvete: Bass.
- Label: Old Cemetery Records.
- Limited to 999 copies.
- Contains live, rare and unreleased tracks.
