Abbath - Abbath - short album review

 

Abbath is a black metal band formed in 2015 by former Immortal guitarist and vocalist Abbath Doom Occulta after departing from Immortal earlier in 2015. The band released their first album, Abbath, on January 22, 2016.


Current members

    Abbath Doom Occulta – vocals, guitar (2015–present)
    King ov Hell – bass guitar (2015–present)

Current live members

    Gabe Seeber – drums (2016–present)
    Ole André Farstad – lead guitar (2016–present)

(Source: Wikipedia)

After this short presentation, I will write some points of view about this first album. Although they released teasers and a single, I haven't checked them because, in a way, I was hoping to be surprised by this new project of one of the masterminds of black metal, Abbath. Things is, I wasn't surprised at all but neither disappointed. First thing I really like is the sound of the album.Very clean, very clear (it was awesome mixed)

Now I only have 2 bad things to say:

First and the most important is: If somebody would have given me to listen to a song from this album, I would've told him that it is Dimmu Borgir (without the orchestra) or Gorgoroth. Way too similar sound. I love Dimmu Borgir but I wanted to listen to Abbath not to Dimmu.

Second thing I did not really liked and it is not that important. The surprising part. In a way I kinda wanted something unexpected (at least on one or two songs to hear smth avant-garde, something industrial) anyway..something mindblowing who would make all the elitists say "WTF!!!"

Anyway, bottom line is that, for a debut album, Abbath is very decent and it worths a listen from the metalheads.
. Also, the songs are very beautiful composed, Abbath's voice is perfect (I tremendously regret I couldn't go to Abbath's concert in Brasov). Back to the songs now, every song has these catchy tunes very radio-friendly for serious rock and metal radio broadcasters (unlike ROCK FM of course). If I would chose some particular songs I really enjoy I would say "To War!" (has some speed metal riffs there that are purely amazing), Ocean of the Wounds, Root of The Mountain and I have to say, one amazing cover of Judas Priests' "Riding on The Wind" (which I really enjoyed especially because Riding on the Wind is one of Judas Priests' songs with lyrics that I love a lot). In conclusion I give 7.5/10