Abigail - Intercours and Lust LP
$25.00
Abigail - Intercours and Lust LP
$25.00
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Wow. Abigail are probably Japan's finest Black Metal band in terms of aggressiveness and raw attitude. This is their first full length album and it is very catchy actually. The riffs are all very thrashy yet retain a BM feel to them. The production is very raw yet all instruments can be heard in the mix. The vocals are some of the most insane I've ever heard.
The music for the most part is fast yet never gets into the territory of endless blast beats and "fast for the hell of it." The drums are well played with the right amount of blasts and double kick thrown in. The bass can be heard well at times, such as on "Attack With Spell." There is a guitar solo in almost ever song, solidifying their love of all things Motorhead and just old school metal in general. Hell, if you took out the vocals and blast beats you may think this WAS Motorhead. You can tell these guys had a lot of fun making this record and it really shows in the music they have crafted here. They even throw in some acoustic guitar on the wonderful "Mephistopheles."
The opening song, "A Witch Named Aspilcuetta," is probably the fastest on here. It also has some slightly distorted vocals in parts. Really though I think the vocals on the entire record may have a slight distortion and definately reverb thrown in. Makes it all sound more "evil" if you will. "Hail Yakuza" is another one that starts off very fast but this one then turns into a seven minute long tribute to the Japanese culture. It has clips mixed in with it of maybe samurai movies or something as another reviewer said. And we all know that this was a big part of ancient Japanese culture. The lyrics are all in english as well and they actually aren't very broken. Of course these guys first language is not english so there are a few occasions when some broken english creeps its way into the lyrics but hey, you can't understand the words anyway, so it doesn't really matter!
All in all this is just a very solid release from a great Japanese BM band. I recommend this to anyone who is into BM, Thrash, Speed, Black/Thrash and basically any extreme form of metal. - Metal Archives
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