An issue I had with the last album was it felt like a long album with an average run time of five minutes per song.  The band has seemingly streamlined things a bit without reducing the quality in their writing abilities.  The average song length this time around is four minutes and “Conflagration of the Dreamers” opens up this quality death metal album.  No need for a fancy intro as the music erupts with a killer old-school 90’s era growl from longtime vocalist Simon Dower.  He sounds punishing on this.  His enunciation is also spot-on.  The song gets into a meaty mid-paced crunch before the blasting erupts yet again as David Hailey blasts away possessed by some underground vermin.  This opening song sliding into the blasts and then moving into those slower-paced moments are excellent.  Very good guitar solo towards the end of the song too.  Great tempo shifts galore on this sucker.

The band has always mixed a little bit of sarcastic humor into their horror-laden death metal.  Such is the case with the next song “The Gory Hole”.  Yes, you read that right, get your mind outta the gutter, nothing glorious about a Gory Hole!!  The opening has scorching guitar riffs from Rob Mollica and newbie Joe Haley, who is the brother of their drummer.  Excellent blasting and ferocious double bass drums.  There is some dual layering of vocals on this song, which at times, comes across as similar to Deicide.  Check out the blasting at the 2.10 mark and then right into that thumping mid-paced gallop then back into the blast with vocals over this section is death metal bliss.

One thing veterans of the scene usually do not forget and that is song structure and writing memorable songs.  Now I would not call Abramelin’s music overly catchy, however, there are enough parts and moments swirling around here that you can remember.

“Last Rite” is prominently placed in the middle of the album allowing the listener to catch their breath.  Starting off slower with atmospherics the song is a slow mid-paced grinder.  The guitar and drum tone on this section truly shines and you can make out those guitar notes clearly.  The band not wanting you to get too comfy goes into a brutal blast beat with some smashing cymbals to accentuate the hate involved with the sound of this song.  Guitar riffing at the 2.18 is very memorable as is the section at the three-minute mark with some harmonies and a scorching guitar solo afterwards.  The punishing mid-paced heaving heaviness highlights the rhythm section quite nicely.  The blasting returns ferociously, to collapse some chest cavities out there.

Sins of the Father is a damn fine slab of death metal vomited up from Abramelin.  I feel this is stronger than their comeback album.  If you really dig 90’s era brutal, yet quality death metal, you must give the band a chance and please check out their prior releases  – all the way back to the 90’s!!

10 songs in 50 minutes, so kind of a long death metal album.  They even included a new recording of “Pleasures” which was on their 2000 sophomore album Deadspeak, so that is certainly super cool.  With all the bands out there nowadays I am surprised the band was not picked up by let’s say a Century Media Records.  Maybe the band wanted to own the rights to their new music, as they have released this album themselves.

The title track opens right up with some massive double bass and mid-paced heaviness before the killer blast beat comes in.  Pretty much the original members are intact with David Haley, joining on drums in 2016, everyone else are from the original 90’s/’00.  So the band knows each other’s strengths and if you were a prior fan of Abramelin you will enjoy this return to form brutality.  Abramelin always had an Americanized brutal death metal sound.  Ranging from Suffocation to some Floridian death metal like Deicide/Brutality/Monstrosity.  The band increases their technical proficiency and the title track has some nice melodic guitar soloing, mixing right into the brutal and punishing moments on this album.  Some real tight blast beats towards the end with a nice ending growl.

“Moon Dogs” makes for quite an interesting song title as the riffing comes right in with a killer mid-paced part before erupting into a brutal blast beat and some nice drum rolls to make your head fall clean off your shoulders.  The song breaks into a nice groove moment early on.  The guitar solo comes right in during this part too and some nice vocal variety going on to mix things up.  There is also some vintage 90’s moment fast death thrashing going on and the guitar riffing is really fast.

“Play With Your Prey” starts slow and has a nice monster build-up to the growl and the song really lets those wonderful guitar riffs breathe.  Some nifty drumming going on as the pace picks up and then right into the slower parts and the song alternates between the faster speeds and then pulling back to the cool mid-paced parts which would have circle pits running into each other all damn day if it was not for the stupid pandemic.  Some more classic metal guitar soloing going on and then right into a blast beat and nice varied vocal ranges.  Although I prefer the lower register more to the high raspy parts, it’s still quite a nice mix.

Abramelin’s Never Enough Snuff is a damn good return album.  The vocals are a bit high in the mix and they could have been scaled back just a smidge.  The songs all average at 5 minutes, which makes for a very long listen for brutal death metal.  I feel brutal death metal, from my humble experience as a musician, is best kept to no more than 40 minutes.  That is just my personal preference.  But Abramelin are forgiven, because they have been away for far too long, because I previously stated I really love their prior recorded material.  The musicianship and production is all excellent and the band do vary the tempos quite a lot.  Please like their FB page, check ‘em out on Bandcamp and get their releases.  Welcome back Abramelin – Never Enough Snuff is a lot of fun to listen to.