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There is a new category called Abominations, which are basically primordial, evil beings at an epic power level, somewhat like Typhon or the Titans in Greek myth.
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Just for the record, the Abominations aren't exactly new. They're actually taken from the 3E Epic Level Handbook. (Well, the only two Abominations from the 4E Monster Manual that were listed as Abominations in the ELH are the atropal and the phane, but the category of Abominations comes from the ELH, anyway--and the ELH contains seven more varieties of Abomination that didn't make it into the 4E MM (maybe some of them will be in the MM2), but the category of Abominations was in the ELH, anyway). The Abominations aren't the only monster from the 4E MM to be taken from the ELH, either... I don't have either book in front of me right now, but off the top of my head, there's the black slaad, the gibbering orb, and the larva mage (in the ELH, it was called a "worm that walks", but it's pretty clearly the same monster by a different name).
Possibly you already knew all this and I misinterpreted what you meant by calling the Abominations a "new category", in which case I apologize...