Abigor
Satanized (A Journey Through Cosmic Infinity)
[Napalm]
Of course I can not resist the temptation to say a few chosen words about my favorite ABIGOR’s new album.
Everyone keeps saying they’re chaotic, they’re so messy, they’re so blatant, they’re so bad… one excuse or another, this reviewer really doesn’t care but adorates ABIGOR by raising the black horns atop the unholy shrine in impure reverence everytime they make something new.
And this is really something new though I doubt that many can appreciate that. They play technical death metal riffs on top of hideously accurate drumming from a new drummer, the guy from Dornenreich, while the new vocalist Thurisaz puts the cherry on top with his much improved vocals from last album (’…demonic incarnation! Total devastation!…’ excellent stuff!!) especially as he adds the tasty clean vocals I always liked in HEIDENREICH. He doesn’t try to be really ’singing with melodic vocals’ like some fuckin’ Vintersorgg but he creates chorals, ambience, closer to something like ENYA, with plenty of layers. And the thing they are after atmospherically, is satanic destruction as always, but as they used to be more into the medieval sword-type satanism, now it’s about galactic malevolence. Most of the lyrics are insane, megalomaniacal visions of hatred about galactic abysses and wars where the writer has the chance to obliterate entire worlds, not just a couple of miserable christians.
P.K. is the only remaining member from original Abigor, and though many said that Abigor is falling down, this does not seem to be true because he carries on that spirit that I have always seen to lie within this unique band (not just ’general’ Swedish/German black metal, but something with an actually evil spirit in the way of seeking new things). His wife Lucia is there with some quite well-placed keyboards and you won’t find many other bands that use these kinds of keyboards. The sounds are ambiental, not semi-classical and they don’t share any simplistic correspondence with the stuff the guitar and bass is playing at the time. For example, in the track ”Re-Pulsor” they just come around for an awesome very low and powerful ”wooomph” now and then, so you will have a vision of massive engines of war, in space or future or maybe right now.
© 2001 black hate
Everyone keeps saying they’re chaotic, they’re so messy, they’re so blatant, they’re so bad… one excuse or another, this reviewer really doesn’t care but adorates ABIGOR by raising the black horns atop the unholy shrine in impure reverence everytime they make something new.
And this is really something new though I doubt that many can appreciate that. They play technical death metal riffs on top of hideously accurate drumming from a new drummer, the guy from Dornenreich, while the new vocalist Thurisaz puts the cherry on top with his much improved vocals from last album (’…demonic incarnation! Total devastation!…’ excellent stuff!!) especially as he adds the tasty clean vocals I always liked in HEIDENREICH. He doesn’t try to be really ’singing with melodic vocals’ like some fuckin’ Vintersorgg but he creates chorals, ambience, closer to something like ENYA, with plenty of layers. And the thing they are after atmospherically, is satanic destruction as always, but as they used to be more into the medieval sword-type satanism, now it’s about galactic malevolence. Most of the lyrics are insane, megalomaniacal visions of hatred about galactic abysses and wars where the writer has the chance to obliterate entire worlds, not just a couple of miserable christians.
P.K. is the only remaining member from original Abigor, and though many said that Abigor is falling down, this does not seem to be true because he carries on that spirit that I have always seen to lie within this unique band (not just ’general’ Swedish/German black metal, but something with an actually evil spirit in the way of seeking new things). His wife Lucia is there with some quite well-placed keyboards and you won’t find many other bands that use these kinds of keyboards. The sounds are ambiental, not semi-classical and they don’t share any simplistic correspondence with the stuff the guitar and bass is playing at the time. For example, in the track ”Re-Pulsor” they just come around for an awesome very low and powerful ”wooomph” now and then, so you will have a vision of massive engines of war, in space or future or maybe right now.
© 2001 black hate