One of my favorite contemporary Japanese black/thrash bands, Abigail has been kicking out their awesome blackened thrash hysteria since the early 90's with a

wild, wonky mix of Venom and 80's garage thrash metal and that inherent weirdness that you usually expect to find in Japanese metal. Most of their stuff has

been pretty hard to come by though, usually going out of print fairly quickly and/or being released on really small labels that can take some effort to track

down, but a couple of Abigail's newer releases have popped up on the ultra-cult Nuclear War Now! label, making them a bit easier to stock here in the store.

That's great news for those of us who are totally addicted to the raw, punky perverted speed metal and filthy sex obsessed lunacy that these cats (who

include members of psych-metal gods Sigh and black thrashers Barbatos) traffic in, with albums like Forever Street Metal Bitch and Lust And

Intercourse loaded with their scumbag thrashpunk and their deliberately ridiculous, adolescent Satanic sex fantasies of songs like "We're the Pussy

Hunter" and "Teen Age Metal Fuck". Yikes!

Housed inside of a smutty high contrast album cover, Sweet Baby Metal Slut is the fourth and latest album from the devilthrash sex-fiends,

loaded with ten tracks of day-glo Baphometic sex fantasies and thrashing Motorhead/Venom meets hardcore punk meets GG Allin scumfuck mayhem. And whoo-boy,

does this album rip. Super catchy and infectious hook-laden thrash with those blackened muppet-squawking vocals from front man/bassist Yasuyuki Suzuki, one

kickass riff after another, and tons of speed, the songs whipped into a pounding D-beat fury, songs about "sexual metal holocaust", a frenzy of fast and

ragged fury flecked with drunken bits of 70's hard rock wankery, even slipping into some Southern rock tainted rawk on "Satanic Hell Slut". There's "Sweet

Bloody Cunt" with it's ridiculously poppy main hook, and the pure simplistic psycho thrash of "Witching Hell" and "Metal Evil Metal" and "Wild Fire Metal

Bitch"... Furiously thrashing metal at it's most savage and sex-crazed, with some of Abigail's catchiest tunes ever.

Nuclear War Now!'s vinyl release of Sweet Baby comes in a heavy gatefold package with sleazy hot pink artwork and includes a couple of inserts

and a Nuclear War Now! Festival poster.