Abruptum hold the highly prestigious place of most derided and hated band in the black metal sphere. This is no easy feat, let me tell you. It takes roughly 20 years of dicking around in dank basements and then a whole whack of post production to make what was initially offensive noise to sound even more vile. It is for this reason that they are an excellent place to pick up on 2011's music trends. If Kanye West and Jay-Z can put in about a week at the studio and crank out such "classics" as Nigga$ in Paris then why not pass these guys the buck? Undoubtedly I love this album in relation to much of this year's canon as I do the aforementioned track off Watch The Throne. What Abruptum do with these four very straightforward themes (listed in post title) is abstract and evoke them in a way far more visceral than any musical black metal could. Really the BM world hates this because it beats them at their own game. I'm also posting this because if you don't know this seminal Swedish act this is the perfect introduction to their material. Supposedly broken up since '05 they've had two releases since then of unknown origin. Basically, these are dark and fucked up sounds from the murky past by an entity now residing in the torrential mists of black metal's worldwide miasma. This is the perfect soundtrack for next year if all goes as planned.
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