skyrsaape2001
This album where a total surprise! And a really good album! Every Abigor album is a master piece but still this is the best work they have publised in years! 👌 I am really sad the Vinyls already are sold out but I can't wait to get my T shirt! 🤘🏻 This was a total banger The domon of War is back to kill with his songbook! Hail Abigor!
Favorite track: Gomorrha Rising - Nightside Rebellion.
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Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
ABIGOR's new album as Hardcover Mediabook CD, with 20 pages booklet.
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To let the cover-art colours shine, we insisted on a "glossy UV varnish finishing" for the mediabook (a first time for this format, so we were told), opposed to the standard process of lamination. The CD delivery is slightly delayed therfore. According to the pressing plant, it will be shipped our way on 10th december. The vinyl version should be ready anytime these days, too, according to the pressing plant. Both delays are not our fault, we have purchased both items on time many weeks ago. As soon as we receive the copies, shipping will start. Watch this space for news, you will be served the moment our warehouse is stocked with „Totschläger - a saintslayer´s songbook“. Neither CD nor LP are standard products but items of the highest quality, from booklet paper over mediabook CD to the vinyl lacquer cut.
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T-Shirt/Apparel + Digital Album
Full Color print on GILDAN HEAVY COTTON T-Shirt.
Please note that this is a pre-order, shipping estimate would be the 21th of December.
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Gatefold LP & Booklet - PRE-SALE
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
ABIGOR's new album coming as Gatefold LP, incl. booklet and red/smokey col. vinyl.
REGARDING SHIPPING DATE:
To let the cover-art colours shine, we insisted on a "glossy UV varnish finishing" for the mediabook (a first time for this format, so we were told), opposed to the standard process of lamination. The CD delivery is slightly delayed therfore. According to the pressing plant, it will be shipped our way on 10th december. The vinyl version should be ready anytime these days, too, according to the pressing plant. Both delays are not our fault, we have purchased both items on time many weeks ago. As soon as we receive the copies, shipping will start. Watch this space for news, you will be served the moment our warehouse is stocked with „Totschläger - a saintslayer´s songbook“. Neither CD nor LP are standard products but items of the highest quality, from booklet paper over mediabook CD to the vinyl lacquer cut.
Includes unlimited streaming of PRE-SALE: Totschläger (A Saintslayer's Songbook)
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
...more
Right on time for the upcoming reissues of ABIGOR´s classic 1990s albums, following as individual CD releases next month, we hereby start the PRE-SALE for the Bands new work, which will definitely delight those, who missed the bombastic element ever since Black Metal´s glorious period.
-------- the music
„Totschläger“ isn´t exactly „Nachthymnen part II“, still there are plenty of equally majestic moments. Singling out more references, some listeners will even draw a line back to „Orkblut“ at some parts, while other spots are reminiscent of “Opus IV”s strange and otherworldly aspect.
Make no mistake, this is the same fully developed outfit here which brought you the powerful wall-of-sound assault of „Leytmotif Luzifer“ - and maybe, this is the best way to superficially describe ABIGOR´s 2020 recording: a mixture of Leytmotif´s fat, precisely riffing up-to-date Black Metal united with the mood, spirit and sometimes even arrangements and instrumentation of their trademark 1990s works.
The atmosphere captured on this new release has also opened up from the strictly apocalyptic darkness which contemporary Black Metal more and more embodies almost exclusively, to let those 1980s Metal influences in which have almost been buried in the 90s - be it the the melodic guitarwork or the uplifting, „into the battle“ kind of parts, which were always present in the old days. Therefore, the whole broad spectrum which 90s BM once offered, has been resurrected for „Totschläger“. Riff-based heaviness like the opener Gomhorra Rising (the verses composed as a bow to Euronymous´ eternal regency for such style), slow melancholic hymns like Guiding The Namelss, or ultra-fast devastation like Terrorkommando Eligos - a song which puts every self-declared Panzerführer right into primary school.
Modern symphonic libraries and orchestral samples have been shunned, instead, old-school keyboards bring back an ancient BM feeling, but there is more, almost Power Metal style influences on Orkblut and Tartaros Tides, and rest assured, the complex, sophisticated or progressive strength of ABIGOR is also blazing through at any given moment.
Crowned by the varied voice - or rather, the countless voices - of Silenius, who is again in unchallenged form and presents us with memorable refrains and hymnic choruses rarely heard before in such way.
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With many newer “orthodox” groups having exploited the legacy of Cain, ABIGOR always hesitated to mention the glorious first murderer on their past releases, yet it was unavoidable this time. The patron of the album unveiled himself as no other than the gruesome slayer, embodying the ongoing thematic thread and combining the various topics of the songs to one figure - the father of archaic violence, the son of an ever-raging rebellion, the divine figure breaking the chains, devoted to the satanic virtues and forbidden paths. He represents the refusal to bow and suppress impulse and instinct, and in this tradition we must ban all fear of consequence, for a shining world opens for those who fight. If blood must be spilled, blood will be spilled. After all, Black Metal still is a radical artform and forever will be. In this spirit, ABIGOR are alone on their field and in opposition to everyone who tries to monopolize or misrepresent the flag-bearer of Eligos, attempts which constantly are pursued, since ABIGOR bow before none and march for nothing but their own values:
Everyone who by now isn´t accustomed with these, and with the religious and ideological substructure in general, will find the lyrics printed in a lavish 20 page booklet. Maybe the central line of the album is found on the song Orkblut (Sieg oder Tod):
“When all worship is done, when all candles burned down, it´s time to claw at knife and sword again”.
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With this headnote in mind you should now savor the album yourself. Either as the hardcover mediabook CD format, or the gatefold LP in smoked red/black vinyl. Both formats have been laboriously prepared to do the content justice, neither LP nor CD are standard quality, neither trouble nor expense has been spared for this cornerstone release.
The vinyl´s lacquer cut has been done by SST again, with the aim to retain hi-fidelity even when the rather overlong playing time of the album is cut on one LP, to provide a continuous listening without having to scatter the songs on 4 sides.
REGARDING SHIPPING DATE:
To let the cover-art colours shine, we insisted on a "glossy UV varnish finishing" for the mediabook (a first time for this format, so we were told), opposed to the standard process of lamination. The CD delivery is slightly delayed therfore. According to the pressing plant, it will be shipped our way on 10th december. The vinyl version should be ready anytime these days, too, according to the pressing plant. Both delays are not our fault, we have purchased both items on time many weeks ago. As soon as we receive the copies, shipping will start. Watch this space for news, you will be served the moment our warehouse is stocked with „Totschläger - a saintslayer´s songbook“. Neither CD nor LP are standard products but items of the highest quality, from booklet paper over mediabook CD to the vinyl lacquer cut.
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I've kept this album in my wishlist for a year waiting for the right time, right place. I think this is it now, for reasons known to me. And it's possibly one of the most important albums of this time (together with Mgła's Age of Excuse).
Worse still, one of the most important works of art of this time: not just in metal and not just in music.
And OK, my lovely one from them.
How tf anybody can call DsO fascists because of this remains inconceivable to me. YomaBarr
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