Hi, we're Abigail Willams - You may remember us when we were bad, had the broad on keyboards and couldn't decide what genre we wanted to be. Then everyone either quit or left... or stopped caring.
I stopped caring for AG after their supposed EP/Demo that wasn't actually official back when they first appeared and got wind their subsequent albums were getting worse. With 'Becoming' they've done a total 180'.
Dropping the symphonic elements from albums prior - Ole' Abigail now plays under the umbrella of atmospheric black metal and does it well for a band who started as metalcore with cheesy synths. Mood is interwoven through out tracks creating a semblance of 'raw' elements changing to melody oriented orchestral movements with the berating onslaught of blast beats taking up the rear.
Tracks like 'Beyond The Veil' which appropriately closes out the album (also 17:31 long) really bring home the notion that Abigail Williams is a band whose been around the block a few times, got mugged and beat but kept trucking. Meshing the spectrum of black metal into one longer opus has a unique charm in a scene of newer bands trying to invigorate and expand on what it is to be 'black metal'. Old school appropriation still resides here with thrash influenced riffs, haunting howl and wails that submerge under the wave of sound then scrape like nails to rise above the froth.
TL;DR - This isn't the band you remember and is worth checking out just to see the total metamorphosis.
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really a fan of this album, but there's so many faggots out there that just won't give it a chance. literally had a kid yesterday say "oh yeah i listened to it, bunch of shitty blackened deathcore", and wouldn't admit that he was lying about listening to it
ReplyDeleteI'll admit I woulda easily passed over this album/band if I wasn't told by our resident weeaboo/bm weirdo in the IRC that they stopped being bad.
ReplyDeleteThis isn't bad but hasn't clicked for me yet. I actually miss their old sound to a degree, this still seems like their trying to jump onto whatever is hot at the moment. Their are alot of atmospheric bm bands around, and I would rather listen to others.
ReplyDeleteWhat a surprise!!!I never liked this band,but i have to admit i like this album.
ReplyDeleteThe most fitting remark I heared so far was "They started to rip off good bands now".
ReplyDeleteJust loved it ...
ReplyDeleteThe previous album is FAR superior.
ReplyDeleteThis album droned on and on without saying anything, there is no personality, no excitement. - I found it to be an empty & hollow album reeking of contractual obligation.
Some people may praise the lack of any distinguishable riffs as being commendable or avante-garde or some other such new fandangled wave of (place adjective here) but it's not. - It's mind numbingly boring.
If 'atmosphere' is what they were going for, they nailed it,... the 'atmosphere' of being stuck in a hot car with the windows up, waiting for your girlfriend to finish shopping while you fiddle with a broken car stereo.
Write some riff's you lazy bastards!