cheibe Nr.3 von Österreichs ABIGOR! Alle Songs sind perfekt auskomponiert und arrangiert. Der Black-Metal der Band, soundtechnisch noch mal verbessert, wird höchst furios dargeboten. Aber auch das Booklet ist ein Hammer. Es zählt zu den bisher schönsten im Black-Metal und könnte / sollte so manch anderen NAPALM-Releases zum Vorbild dienen. Zu den Songs: Bereits der Opener nagelt euch mit der Streitaxt an die Wand. Und auch das darrauffolgende Stück wird eure Seele nicht frei von Schürfwunden lassen. Jeder weitere Track stellt für sich einen Höhepunkt dar und das ganze Album eine Lehrstunde im Umgang mit Black-Metal-typischen Stilmitteln. Effekte wie Frauengesang, Glocken, Pauken, Keyboards, Akustikgitarren, mittelalterlich wirkende Orgeltöne etc. wurden mit Fingerspitzengefühl im Gesamtsound integriert. Die wirk nie deplaziert und mach aus Songs wie `I Face The Eternal Winter` herrliche Panoramaklangbilder. Nicht zu vergessen Sänger Silenius, der die überzeugenden und einmal gar deutsch verfassten Texte gewohnt extatisch interpretiert. Die 49 Minuten schwärzester Tonkunst nötigen mich zur inneren Verbeugung. Eines der besten BM-Alben überhaupt.
ABLAZE / Bruder Cle

his is the 3rd ABIGOR CD within just one year… It's again (of course) nordic styled black metal, but this time they haven't got as many fast parts as before, and especially this makes `Nachthymnen` the best ABIGOR release so far. They are very strong when they play mid tempo parts, it has more atmosphere and feeling, and is a sign for the bands quality. Another great thing is the CD cover which looks just phenomenal. Finally a great Black Metal release!
TALES OF THE MACABRE

achthymnen is the third album from the satanic black metal horde known as Abigor. For those that have heard the more new works from Abigor, and did not care too much for them let me just say don't be to quick to right them off as bad. This album certainly is one of the more interesting albums Abigor has made, and that's mostly just due to the fact that they went all out on this album, and really experimented. Yes the album is very, very heavy, but they also add female vocals, synth, some clean vocals, and a hell of a lot of killer guitar riffs!
One of the songs on this album that really just blew me away was the 5th song 'As astral Images darken Reality.' Given the fact that this band is mostly all about just being heavy as possible the majority of the time it was nice to hear some really nice guitar work in this one. It starts out with these very cool guitar riffs & semi brutal drums, and then slows up a bit and there's some clean vocals, and female ohhh & ahhh kind of vocals in the background. Shortly their after the song picks up a bit, but not to the point where it blows the listeners speakers apart. If that song was not cool enough let's move on over to the second song 'Scars in the landscape of God.' Upon first buying this album I had not heard a single song from the album so I had no clue what to expect, but I certainly did not expect heavenly angelic female vocals to open this song with! This song has many parts where it's fast, but then there's parts where it cools off a bit, and goes at a good pace. The female vocals are rather brief in the song so maybe it would have been cooler if they had let her sing more. Although the album is pretty damn good it's not the catchiest album so you probably won't find yourself listening to it all that much. Nachthymnen is one of the best of the early Abigor albums, and is very recommended to people whom like the current style or those who enjoy in your face brutal music.

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