Abigor
Channeling the Quintessence of Satan
[Napalm]


Abigor’s new full length album came out on ’99. After the vocalist Silenius has left the band a new vocalist named Thurisaz has joined the band. This have a large influence on Abigor sound but it does not make it any less good only somewhat different because the new singer doesn’t even reminds Silenius.

About the music, I must say that this is probably the last thing I would’ve expect from this band the music is very brutal fast and screechy, the feeling is very aggressive and energetic and mostly all you hear is high treble guitars blasting drums and demonic screams all this under a Darkthrone like production.

At first it was kind of hard for me to hear this album because I thought that Abigor had lost all of its magic and could do so much better but after a while I start to understand this release and found the good sides of it, like the excellent guitar riffs and their ability to make really high speed powerful brutal music and not making it sound like a total mess never the less keep it chaotic as hell. Every song has a keyboard intro but not what you’re used to but a short few synthesized notes and some f/x’s I think the purpose of these is to make this 8 piece album into one unit and because there is no song that stands up above the others in it’s general sound it works good and so you drown into this vortex of brutality and swept away by the music of this musical geniuses even though there are no melodies ,slow parts or acoustical breaks , Abigor show that they can make fucking great music without them. This album is only recommended to those of you who likes real unstoppable brutal music it reminds of Ulver’s’s case with “Nattens Madrigal” and proves that a good band can rely only on their brutal elements and create a whole album from them. I only wonder if Abigor will continue with this line of music or will come back to their prior style.


© 1999 undivine