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Suicidal Emotions

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Abyssic Hate is hateful and uncompromising. This music is not for the weak. With that said, it is not for people who are looking for corporate black metal in the vein of Dimmu Borgir and Cradle of Filth. However, for people who are interested in Burzum and so forth, this is a welcomed post-1997 black metal gem. This release is relentless and unique in its execution, style, and presentation. You could describe it as being suicidal black metal, which is what the title "Suicidal Emotions" indicates. In most cases, it is easy to dismiss such a title as being pretentious and cliché, but Suicidal Emotions lives up to its name. In many ways, the album can be viewed as the last moments of a jaded man's life before he finds peace and solace in his very own death.

Abyssic Hate takes you within the depths of misanthropy. The guitars are deeply layered and intricately interwoven to create despondent atmospheres. There are disharmonies that make the music sound sick, painful, and unnerving. This music is powerful and it washes over you; it evokes a response and does not let you sit idly.

This is perhaps one of the best black metal releases that has come out in years, since it is without a doubt one of the genre's most fatalistic albums. At the core of Abyssic Hate's sound is a deep hatred for mankind. This music is not for everyone, which is the whole point behind the premise of Abyssic Hate. The point of Abyssic Hate is to separate the weak from the strong; the poseurs from the true and elite. Now, this may seem pompous, but this is what Abyssic Hate is about - a fantastical world where the strong survive and the weak perish as they ought. The music reflects this thought pattern, and although the music is self-loathing and hateful, there is a resonating beauty underneath the chaos.

Abyssic Hate gets five stars simply for accomplishing what it sets out to do, and also for truly creating something that differs from anything else within the genre. This music is far more interesting than your basic "Satanic Goth metal band posturing as evil people garbage." It is original and unrelenting. It is one of the most hateful albums that I have ever heard. It is a must have for anyone into black metal, or dark music in general.

really depressing and somber black metal, which is a bit of a surprise considering this excellent band hail from australia, typically known for its hack and slash, cackhanded war metal (atomizer, anatomy, destroyer 666) etc. really melancholic, jet black music that perfectly encapsulates the quintessence of suicide. funereal music for the mopey b@stard in you.

Abyssic Hate's Suicidial Emotions is a true depressingly hateful album with no strings attached! The cover shows exactly what you will be listening to, flesh opening pain! There are only four songs, but these four songs are the most depressing songs you will ever listen to! When I read the lyrics, I get chills because the lyrics are so cold and hateful! The music sounds very similar to the elite Burzum and Wigrid. Like BURZUM, Abyssic Hate is a one man project, meaning he does all the instruments and vokills (yes, there are a few keyboard licks thrown in at the end, but the keyboards also are very empty sounding and very atmospheric!) The guitars are very similar sounding to BURZUM's "Filosefem" and Gorgoroth's "Pentagram". Listen closely on "Despondency", I believe he borrowed a lick of BURZUM's "Beholding the Daughters of the Firmament"! BUY THIS OR COMMIT SUICIDE (not really)!

*buy this cd* the most hateful droning trance black metal ever! not many b.m. cds get my attention like this one, absolute dark beauty, enjoy. necronibbler

Pure Beauty. Yes, I know Shane Rout's music is filled with discord, savagery and hate. Listen close and you will hear joy and beauty as the sum of that hate. BUY THIS CD AT ANY COST. Heed Shane's directions to play at maximum volumne. Let it consume you. Listen to the music three times uninterrupted at loud levels and you will be forever changed.

An exploration of dejection and sempiternal desperation and its accompanying isolation in self-justified depression and misanthropic rejection. The incurable suffering which is the fundamental state of existence as necessary condition of all life is here felt as the product of an intentionally antagonistic world specifically designed to oppress and alienate. The suffering and misery explored through this music is personalized in subjectivity, resulting in a self-pity of an embryonic nature. A surrender to hopelessness as the deliverance of death whispers in the shadows. Though the deliverance can be hastened through self-termination, it is only the solace of such an act as a possibility within the sufferer's power which is reveled here, as the ultimate meaningless of the act is acknowledged, though here this is recognized without clarity and pure understanding, yet merely felt deep within, having not been adequately reflected upon.

Minimalist black metal employing repetition to induce the listener into a trance of delirium. Guitars are densely layered in fuzz-drenched distortion, presented loudly in the mix, as drums and vocals are relegated to a ghostly distance. Uneventful drumming serves only as a current of rhythmic foundation, performed with strict necessity as to what the music requires, and nothing more, for any embellishment threatens the hypnotic effect. Vocals are equally uneventful in tone and emotional dynamic, serving only as apparitional communicator of lyrics. Again, any elaboration expresses an enthusiasm which is entirely alien to the overall presentation.

"All means seemingly focus towards the end
There is no reason to live anymore when the reason cannot be attained."

An initial theme is introduced, followed by a restrained increase of energy supplied to this theme. Each sectional theme is purposely extended in duration and tensity to establish hallucinogenic ambience, as transitions to new sectional themes distinctly occur once the required effect has been produced. The central riff which defines each section, along with the commentary vocal phrase, sustains chronological succession, as each theme affirms itself through repetition. A suspension of established momentum occurs for the purposes of elucidation in reflection. This is occasionally free of drums and always of vocals, with only the layered guitars repeating chords for extended segments, until a rejoining of elements fleshes out the theme towards a discovery of a central intentional expression, which, once confirmed, ushers the composition to an extended fade-out. The essential idea of each song is always revealed through a gradual unfolding of layers, which makes for lengthy tracks which never identify a formal resolution in the shape of a conclusion, suggesting an eternal flowing which must of necessity grow silent after its point has been made.

The music is effective because it expresses depression and isolation adequately, meaning that it never even hints at an enthusiasm which is entirely alien to such feelings. The monotony of repetition portrays the static quality of deep dejection and disenchantment with life which is this music's primary theme. The colorlessness of the music and its total lack of artistic decoration aside from what is necessary effectively represents the hopelessness that fills the empty and useless days of one who has been stricken with such feelings to the degree here explored. The riffs and melodies are never angry or evil, but always reflective, melancholic, though never relaxed enough to introduce a feeling of peace and contentment with the portrayed condition. The album's most impacting moment arrives in the penetratingly sad guitar melody during the near mid-point of "Despondency", which, along with the low vocal cry at this melody's introduction, clearly and beautifully expresses the true intention of the album's expression. Yet, because the music is such a convincing representation of the lyrical themes, it must also necessarily suffer from their delusion and lack of universal insight into the suffering of not only one individual, but the suffering of existence as a whole. The music never identifies a resolution because its creator has no answers, and suffers defeat at the hands of fatalism.

"But the solace lay beyond the darkness
In a land where light and life dwell
Yet soon will come death and the numbing fires
Only then will my mind lay to rest"

The minimalist, trance-inducing black metal of early Burzum and the monochromatic repetition of Brave Murder Day-era Katatonia are obvious influences, but the end result, while unified and effective, is far from the quality of either, because it lacks their transcendental aspects and keen insight. Thus its overall significance is limited to its aesthetic as a proper portrayal of its given themes, but stops there, as it has nothing to say of the universal, only the particular. The sleeve imagery and design is suitably sparse and colorless, as is the production, which lends the guitars a barbed-wire yet eloquent presence of sound and tone, forming the focal point of the music, with drums and vocals low in the mix. The dark ambient outro, provided by Raison D'Etre, following as it does four lengthy tracks of music from one particular realm, offers a somewhat detached yet appropriately haunting and claustrophobic closure to the disc, yet might have been better placed in the middle of the track sequence, since this would have more effectively emphasized its relation to the rest of the material.

this is perhaps the most original and depressing black metal album i have ever heard. i came across this album in 2003 by accident. the album cover was the first thing that caught my attention, and when i listened to it for the first time it gave me chills. to this day it still stirs many cold and haunting emotions within my mind. there are only four songs, but each song is 10-12 minutes long, with the last song coming in at about 20 minutes. the music is well executed, and the message is loud and clear-anti human nihilism, with a certain strength in knowing that we have the choice to die...if we wish. this album is anti-trend, and i am patiently waiting for the next album.

While the title of this album and the songs contained on it may seem incredibly un-metal, a genre that often exudes strength and machoness, Abyssic Hate's Suicidal Emotions has nonetheless become one of my favourite black metal albums. While black metal is often associated with blast beats and songs about Satan, what a lot of people forget is that it was never really about that at the core. Black metal was about atmosphere and emotion. It was about music that you could get lost in. So while all these bands are perfecting their blast beats and dressing up in silly looking make up, it's the likes of Abyssic Hate that are truly capturing what alot of early black metal stood for.

The music itself is definitely more emotional than most black metal albums. The vocals sound like the singer is crying at times as he belts outs lines such as "I just want to f*cking die". The music itself, despite being incredibly distorted, is surprisingly melodic. This isn't just an album full of power chord riffs. What's going on here is considerably more thoughtful, despite still having the 'simple yet effective' formula associated with black metal.

If your idea of black metal is simple death metal with screaming instead of growling or the cheesy goth influenced commercial stuff peddled by the likes of Old Man Child and Dimmu Borgir then this isn't what you're looking for. But if you want a modern black metal album that both does something a little different yet still captures the old spirit of black metal then Suicidal Emotions comes highly recommended.