The correct answer to yesterday's "Indecipherable Logo" is Abacinate. We're pretty sure these New Jersey sickos got their name from Slayer's song "Angel of Death" and the line "Abacinate, eyes that bleed/ Showers that drain you of your life."
According to Websters Dictionary, Abacinate means "to blind by a red-hot metal plate held before the eyes." Nasty.
This comes from the band's MySpace:
In January of the year 2005 A.D., vocalist Ian Neal, guitarists Todd Stern and Brian Bae, bassist Matt Babulski and drummer Justin Spaeth hit the rehearsal studio with a long list of thrones to conquer and a take no prisoners attitude. Within four short months of choosing a moniker, Abacinate had already written and recorded their first demo (2005’s One Less Mouth to Feed) and hit the stage to give New Jersey a taste of their homemade brew.
Abacinate immediately started writing new music and cramming their schedule with shows. Slowly gaining popularity through MySpace and constantly playing live, the band began to establish itself as a must see act among other notorious New Jersey bands. By the following spring, Abacinate had written enough material to record their first five-song EP. 2006’s Portrayal of the Grey Man was the most crushing music the band had offered the public to date, and it was the release of this disc that really sparked the interest of extreme metal enthusiasts nationwide.
Shortly after the Portrayal release, Abacinate signed with Epitomite Productions in the spring of 2007. Epitomite re-released Portrayal of the Grey Man as a split CD with New York’s God-Rot. During the following months, while still maintaining an overwhelming live schedule and fulfilling their obligations to part-time alcoholism, Abacinate still managed to compose all of the music that would later become their first full length recording to be released on EP. The band entered the recording studio in the summer of 2007 with one goal in mind: to obliterate and destroy all of their previous work with more force than necessary. During the recording process, Abacinate parted ways with original guitarist Brian Bae. In spite of the unexpected lineup change, the band forged ahead to complete the recording sessions with only one guitarist.
Abacinate now stands ready to unleash Ruination, an uncompromising statement of what heavy music is capable of achieving. Ruination expresses brutality in its purest form, melding influences from all across the metal universe to forge a massive wall of viciousness. The maturation from Portrayal of the Grey Man to Ruination is immediately evident, showcasing a blend of classic death and thrash elements with highly refined songwriting. Abacinate has destroyed the mold that heavy music has found itself encased in, refusing to be beholden to formulaic recitals of tired clichés. In short, forget what you know about heavy metal. Ruination stands alone as a proclamation of change. In January 2008, Abacinate added second guitarist Justin Barteaux. Justin Barteaux (ex-An Aborted Memory).
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