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Channeling the Quintessence of Stan

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Here we have a more brutal and raw sounding Abigor than on their previous works. No classical inturements or guitars are used, but it still retains the Abigor sound with it's multilayered music and venomous vocals. This is basically black metal in the raw and traditional vein, with some creepy industrial noises added in for affect. The guitars on this album are fanstatic! Every song is a winner once again...a must own album!

This Abigor release has a fairly rough production, which isn't uncommon in black metal, particularly where the drums are concerned. A bit more kick drum would have made a world of difference for the better, but at least the production is consistent throughout. There's a definite 'cold/raw' vibe on this disc that fits the theme well. These are well written songs and the performances are on the mark. Abigor's not afraid to blend different styles and you can clearly hear 'death' metal riffing and 'viking' metal tones scattered among the standard 'black' metal offerings. Good stuff!

This album features some of the most refined guitar playing to ever grace a black metal album. Less reliant on keyboards than most Abigor albums (most of the keyboard samples that _are_ used come from old Dom and Roland tunes), and even more epic in scope and consistent in sound than their last album, _Supreme Immortal Art_. I was a latecomer to Abigor, but unlike some black metal bands (like Emperor, whose _Equilibrium IX_ was, on the whole, a huge disappointment), they continue to improve and fail to disappoint.

I would never pick this as an album to introduce black metal to people who aren't familiar with it (or don't like it), as the seamlessness that makes it such an overpowering listen for darkheshers would probably make it somewhat inaccessible to people who don't get why putatively normal people enjoy headbangers extolling the virtues of the Dark Lord over double kick drums.

This album is sick. As usual with Abigor it takes many, many listenings in order for one to absorb and truly appreciate all the nuances and intricacies of the music. CTQOS may be even more difficult to get in the first few listenings because of the strange, muffled, obscure production, but it's worth the time spent on it. Bizarre, amazingly original, vicious, multilayered, technical, beautiful Austrian black metal. Abigor marches onward in their quest to be the most idiosyncratic metal band on the planet. Highly recommended!

Unfortunately, I don't own a copy of this album yet, but will soon enough. That does not mean I haven't heard it, for I have listened to it at a friends house over and over again.

Anyway, to the point, this is ultra-morbid extreme art. From the hills of Austria comes a black metal band which fuses brutality and melody and do it with a certain proficiency that is unmatched. I would recommend this to any black metal fan who desires being ripped to shreds. Succumb to "Wildfire By Desire", "Pandemonic Revelation", "Utopia Consumed", and the many other great tracks on this offering from hell.

what a stupid album. COME ON BLACKMETAL BANDS MOST OF THEM ARE A BUNCH OF NERDS WHO SET AROUND A PLAY D&D SOME ARE ALSO RACIST. JUST READ LORDS OF CHAOS.