Daily Archives: November 7, 2011

Absu – Abzu [Review]

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Absu is a Black Metal/Thrash Metal band from the US of A. The album artwork is ultra kewl and depicts a green colour building with a circle in the middle of the building. In the circle are an arrow sign, triangle and pentagram. Right outside the building is a network of cables with a circle in the centre of it.

Absu have named this album as “Abzu”, I don’t know why they have named it so, either they were too lazy to think of a new name or they thought Abzu could be a spell and since it was similar to the band name, replacing the “s” in Absu the band name with a “z” would be great.

Abzu opens with a mighty cracker of a song in the form of “Earth Ripper”. The Black Metal/Thrash Metal combination is just right. I like both Black Metal and Thrash Metal, for me this is like Gorgoroth meets Slayer. Hahaha!

“Circles Of The Oath” is the song that follows “Earth Ripper”. Circles Of The Oath reminds me of some kind of pagan ritual. Next song is “Abraxas Connexus” which is a great track in itself and is beautiful and a pleasure to listen.

Abzu is a wonderful album and I’m sure it will be a delight to the fans of Black Metal and Thrash Metal. Songs that I would recommend are “Earth Ripper”, “Circles Of The Oath”, “Ontologically, It Became Time & Space”.

The longest song on Abzu is “A Song for Ea including: (a) E-A (b) A Myriad of Portals ( c) Third Tablet ( d) Warren of Imhullu ( e) The Waters – The Denizens ( f) E-A (Reprise)” at 14 minutes and 26 seconds and it doesn’t disappoint. These 14 minutes and 26 minutes aren’t a waste but worth the time spent.

The Right Hand Path’s Rating – 10/10

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Hat – Vortex Of Death [Review]

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Hat is a Norwegian Black Metal band. Hat means Hate in Norwegian. The album artwork is cool and depicts a skeleton with a woman’s hair wearing a black gown and wings on her back. The way the skeleton is looking up is cool.

Vortex Of Death opens with the nice song “Inhumanas Revelatio” which is I hate to use this word kickass. Man, what a way to open a Black Metal album. This just shows why the Black Metal bands from Norway and Scandinavia are cool and again I hate to use this word rock.

The second song is “Invocation Of Death”. I like songs with cool names, this one takes it one step forward not only is the song cool but it shows the musical maturity and outlook that the members of Hat hold.

I don’t know what more to say about Vortex Of Death except that it isn’t Black Metal close to the standards of the Black Metal elite like Darkthrone, Immortal, Gorgoroth, Burzum but Hat manage to carve out a place for themselves.

My picks from Vortex Of Death are “Inhumanas Revelatio”, “Invocation Of Death”, “The Flesh I Wear”, “The Path To Immortality”, ”Overmenneske”, “Ultimate Evil” and “Slaves Of Insanity”.

The Right Hand Path’s Rating – 10/10

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Ebola – Hell’s Death Metal [Review]

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Ebola is a Death Metal band from Poland. Hell’s Death Metal by Ebola opens with a killer intro called “Death Approaching”. I’m a kind of fan of this concept of having an instrumental intro in the beginning and the end of the album. It gives an impression of structure or for that matter vision of hierarchy that the musicians have in their mind. Enough of hierarchy and instrumentals.

The album artwork shows a pile of corpses and two masked man standing with a corpse in their hands. In the background are stakes where corpses lie pierced, surprisingly the album artwork doesn’t have the name “Hell’s Death Metal” written on it.

I remember when I first saw Ebola’s Hell’s Death Metal on a Metal music download blog; I knew that I’d to download this album, with a name as cool as Hell’s Death Metal I couldn’t afford to miss it.

Focusing on the music the second song “Necrolegion” is cool; it has killer drums and guitar riffs which are perfect for a pandemonic invocation. What surprises me about Ebola is they have clean vocals unlike the gargled vocals of a normal Death Metal band accompanied by the screams and grunts. This kind of Death Metal is a refreshing and welcome change for me. Necrolegion is a headbanger’s delight.

Next up is “Beasts Of Damnation” which too carries on the killer drums and guitar riffs and the clean vocals which look as if they are lunging out to get you by the neck and make you listen. The fourth song is “Tyranny Of The Unlords” which has a great opening and then the Poles go on to serve their standard Death Metal fare with the growls and the awesome drumming.

Ebola do a great job at playing Death Metal at the remaining 8 songs on the album.

My picks from Hell’s Death Metal are “Death Approaching”, “Necrolegion”, “Beasts Of Damnation”, “Tyranny Of The Unlords”, “Cult Of Death”, “Hell’s Death Metal”, “Rip The Flesh”, “Against Decalogue” and “Panzer Death Machine” and the mechanical and ultra cool “…”.

 The Right Hand Path’s Rating – 10/10

Immolation – Providence [Review]

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Providence opens with a fantastic song called “What They Bring”. It is a fast paced, brutal song with killer drums and great riffs. Next up is the song “Illumination” which too like its predecessor carries forward great depth and ingenuity in the way it is composed and performed.

Though Providence is a short album, it doesn’t disappoint what with songs like “Still Lost”, the title song “Providence” and “Swallow The Fear” being sorts of gems of Death Metal if I may say so.

Overall a fantastic album and a must listen if you are a Death Metal fan.

The Right Hand Path’s Rating – 10/10