Whosoever has heard ‘Abaddon Incarnate’ before would know how closely the band symbolizes the word ‘Extreme’. ‘Dark crusade’ their latest offering is packaged with 16 tracks (weapons), (band is known to put quite a lot of songs on their albums) of mass destruction. The average playing time on each song increases compared to the older releases (especially Nadir). Hence, the structure and variety are in totality. The grind direction changes a bit to a grind/death, which is a refreshing change, because the flavors of listening considerably improves. Lyrically also, there’s an evident shift from a plain sick approach to a more angry and pain giving verses. The riffs are solid, banking hugely on pinch harmonics (occasional); that often catapult from a very flat simple riff shapes to thinner, faster and bounded ones. Leads do remain scanty, but are well defined and imbibed classily into the voids (wherever created) Drums are also well meshed into the musical grooves and are fast, pounding and technique filled (not those straight blast beast, with absent variety). Vocalist doesn’t throw out those typical in-depth guttural ones (as in case of most UG grind or grind/death bands), instead they come from a sore deceased throat. To add, the backs up vocals are nothing but haunting shrieks that roll over as a stingy effect. Track 6 ‘1756’, track7 ‘terminate my battery’ and track 11 ‘entrusted with disgust’ are the finest examples of the things talked above. The keywords defining ‘Dark crusade’ remain kill and vibe Mind you! When you are ‘Abaddon Incarnate’ its not easy to deliver goodies with each subsequent release, as there’s too much surface pressure to authentically provide aggression, with genuinely sticking to what they have been doing. But, wait a minute they do it all! Immune yourself, the sickos have arrived to infect you.