2025 CD edition of the long out of print 2002 cult ‘sickodelic’ album from Abscess, Through The Cracks of Death.

Containing 15 bonus tracks (taken from the band’s more obscure catalogue and archive, with rarities from an assortment of 7”, demo, and split releases) and featuring Autopsy members.

Featuring remastered audio courtesy of Greg Wilkinson at Earhammer Studios.

Abscess hailed from Oakland California, started life in 1994, and is best described as “Sickodelic Gore Metal”. Chris Reifert & Danny Coralles are both longstanding members of Death Metal legends Autopsy which was signed to Peaceville for 4 albums in the early 90's, before making a triumphant return from the grave in 2009. Chris also started his career in the 80's with the highly influential extreme metal band, Death. In the wake of the original cessation of Autopsy in the mid-90s, Abscess (with the core line-up completed by Clint Bower) took the mantle of extremity and notoriety to new depths with a string of albums and 7” releases spanning 15 years.

In 2002, Abscess signed to Peaceville Records and recorded SickCore classic, 'Through The Cracks Of Death' at Different Fur Recording Studios in San Francisco; the band already being very familiar with the studio as they recorded the seminal Autopsy album 'Mental Funeral' there in 1990. Abscess went on to record further albums in the form of Horrorhammer & the band's brutal farewell slab of decadent darkness, ‘Dawn of Inhumanity’.

01 Raping The Multiverse [03:50]
02 Mourners Will Burn [03:24]
03 Through The Cracks Of Death [05:26]
04 Escalation Of Violence [04:29]
05 Serpent Of Dementia [05:40]
06 An Asylum Below [05:00]
07 Tomb Of The Unknown Junkie [04:28]
08 Monolithic Damnation [03:37]
09 Die For Today [05:05]
10 16 Horrors [01:16]
11 Vulnavia [01:25]

Bonus Tracks
12 Suicide Pact [03:55]
13 Die Pig Die [02:39]
14 Horny Hag [01:18]
15 Necroslut [01:26]
16 Speed Freak [01:28]
17 For Those I Hate [01:41]
18 Fuckface [01:57]
19 Throbbing Black Werebeast [01:19]
20 Leave the Skin [01:02]
21 Wriggling Torsos [00:37]
22 Fucking Hell [02:39]
23 Leech Boy [01:35]
24 Open Wound [02:19]
25 Flesh Candy [04:19]
26 To Die Again [04:38]