Abyssic Hate suicidal emotions is based on the most stripped down and emotional form of black metal one could possibly concieve of; every note and progression is chosen specifically to ring the last juices of depression and despair out of the listener. Very bad production, complimented with extremely raspy guitar and vocal structures makes this album highly comparable to Filosfem by Burzum. In that same vein, Abyssic Hate uses only the very most monotone and repetitive songs, played over and over again in a seemingly endless mantra of sound which produces a number of meditative and celestial visions if one allows their mind freedom. The chords often coalesce into one, and then break apart again in harmony. The drums lurk primitively in the backdrop, and only serve to blast in the repititon even more; pounding it deeper and deeper into ones unconscious thoughts. I have a feeling that this a machine, but in this context, and this context alone (excluding Mysticum), they work extremely effectively because they are programmed primarily on simple beats, and not on extravagent, and not to mention unnessecary fills that pollute so much music. As I think about it more, this album really sounds a lot like Birkenau as well, who some of you may know simply from their painfully melancholic and unending style of doomy black metal.

There are only four tracks on this, one of them being a synth, but that does not matter because as we all should know, quality prevails over quantity! I would rather listen to ten seconds of Moonblood than sit through an entire album of "the new" Mayhem! This is precisely what Abyssic Hate strives for; quality music that is unparralled in it's ability to evoke and perpetuate intense rushes of emotion within the mind of the listener, all the while relying only on the most primordial tools of musical manipulation to carry the task out. Very few musicians in any category of the world are able to do this, and the fact that this obscure one man band from the Australian underground can do it, should be all the more rewarding. One of the author's favorites.

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