07/30/2017 22:21

Abigor

Abigor working on new album

Black metal may still be excellent, and the pool of "occult" or post-DSO bands is huge. But where's the pounding greatness of 'Natten's madrigal', 'Apokalypsens ängel', 'Det som engang var' or the 'Strid' today?

Not that we would or could fill this gap, but in Abigor's very own stubborn way and with the old-school execution of mentioned masterpieces, our new album was recorded without a single "blastbeat", without multi-guitar madness or downtuned disharmonic riffing.

String-wise, minimalism was the law - only one guitar left, one guitar right, and a bass in the middle. Not one single additional guitar-track to add soli, melodies or double-tracks.

Lyrically, all hokuspokus and theological pondering was avoided. It's not an album of a seeker, or about one's initiation, or to lecture, but about the Devil and the Devil only! An impulsive work stripped down to the very basics that maybe could have been released in the 1990s.

This technical restriction as well as a focus on the the evil force that sparked black metal ablaze at the beginning of the 90s also torched our work again.

Silenius is soon starting to record the vocals, and you can expect the new Abigor LP and CD after the summer makes way for the autumn's gloom.

Track listing:
1. All Hail Darkness and Evil
2. Sword of Silence
3. Black Icarus
4. The Cold Breath of Satan
5. Our Lord's Arrival - Black Death Sathanas
6. None before Him
7. Olden Days
8. Hymn to the Flaming Void
9. Christ's Descent into Hell
10. Ancient Fog of Evil
11. Metamorphosis

(source: Abogir)