Fans should expect the claustrophobic and cacophonous sound of underground death metal. The album contains six tracks with a dark, crawling vibe. The songwriting is filled with many heavy riffs, you can anticipate plenty of slow and suffocating death metal riffs. “Abhorrent Worship” wastes no time with gimmicks or nonsense; the album feels like one abyssal journey that drags you into the depths of hell.

The extreme riffing with the pacing of the drums is filled with head-smashing riffs and deep pounding drum beats, the vocals on the album are mainly snarls backing the overall menacing chugging guitars and crushing drums. The album begins with “Volitional Entropy”, where Ossuary initiates their maddening beats and gnarly riffs to bring out the atmosphere. The focus becomes overly intricate from the opening moments, where the guitars display chunky riffs, emphasizing chugs and visceral musicianship.

“Inborn Scourge Unbound” crafts sewage-laden riffs, the double bass pounding sections, and the drums create heavy reverb. The atmosphere is nihilistic and drenched in gloomy riffing, the grooves and evil black metal snarls lingering throughout the album. There are moments when the vocalist fluctuates between tormented growls, evil low growling, and high-pitched black metal screams.

“Forsaken Offerings (To The Doomed Spirits)” is another song where the drums thunder and follow the tempo of the music by eschewing blast beats for the most part and utilizing double bass pedal kicks instead. Besides the slow-paced moments, the guitars build something monolithic, but the music isn’t akin to death doom metal; the powerful chugging is joined with these sledgehammering riffs and confines you in a dark, claustrophobic prison.

With an extremely slow buildup, the riffs maneuver in the slower ambient territory. It’s not until the drums bring some moments of straight bludgeoning that songs like “Instinctual Prostration” bring sheer brutality, showing how inducing and dark the music can be. The unsettling brutality on this record defines the cavernous and evil fits well to the torturous growls and shrieks, chugging heaviness, and the insane snarling vocals that spits black sludge.

The riffs on “The Undrownable Howl Of Evil” sound monolithic and oppressive, contrasting with the slow grinding sections wrapping reddish themes of hell and blood. The sound on this song is very frightening, full of incessant darkness. The longest cut on the album is the almost nine-minute track, “Barren Lamentation”, which underlines the slow, wicked riffs that permeate through the slow-burning tempo.

However, the best moments of this album would appear at the beginning of this track, which contrasts, a perfect balance between the slow brutal pacing of the drums and what appears in the final section is the crawling madness of monstrous abomination.

The doom-like section is well displayed on the full-length album “Abhorrent Worship”. Ossuary’s downright and slow oozing brand of death metal is a creepy and raw, despite the tight performance and focused songwriting, it’s an infectious and easy to listen to, over and over. A different approach from the trio resulting in an otherworldly album is presented here with dark, vicious vocals and soul-withering atmosphere.

I didn’t have any expectations regarding this release. After I had listened to the album, Ossuary‘s style drags you to hell and prepares you to journey across the subterranean realms of the underworld. The band can play two or three tempos in one song, but surely maintains the haunting aura.

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