ABIGOR
Supreme
And Immortal Is The Art Of The Devil EP
Avantgarde
Music
Press
releases can be little funny bastards, more often than not. Case in
point: Avantgarde's Abigor one. No matter what words you would
want to use, it's crystal clear those 2 songs are remnants of a
failed project from 1997, and all possible 2013 tweaking, re-mixing
and newly recorded vocal lines couldn't help turning those from turd
to gold.
Right,
Silenius is back on the vocal duties. Big deal - those vocals largely
fall flat, much in the same vein when Bethlehem tried
something similar. The music pretty much epitomizes what was wrong
with the more “advanced” and “experimental” (quasi-/ex-)
black metal bands in the second part of the '90s: No soul, heart or
real dark passion is present. Stiff, in a word. Layered with synths
overpowering the thin sounding guitars. Anemic, pseudo-industrial
drumming. You know the drill.
At
any rate, Abigor (Who, in 20 years, I've never heard anyone,
fellow metalhead or musician, citing as a fave band) is here again
with a newly released 7” nobody asked for and a new album to
follow. “Abigor is, and still makes, the history of european
black metal” (sic). At least there's no mention what kind of
history it is. 3.5 / 10
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