Have you heard The Way of All Flesh yet? That's my favorite.
 
 
 
 
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redcarmoose said:

Finally getting into this band. New video came out a couple days ago, I guess for new album as the last studio album w

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It seems they could write a book about the last couple years.



I need to hear more of their albums. THX for the recommendation. I could not get into them in 2012, but now the album is interesting, and has some nice production. So for whatever reason my listening styles have changed so I can go back to stuff I maybe would never have liked in 2012?

I like the 2012 album better than this new song. Still I know nothing of the band?

 

redcarmoose said:

It seems they could write a book about the last couple years.
I need to hear more of their albums. THX for the recommendation. I could not get into them in 2012, but now the album is interesting, and has some nice production. So for whatever reason my listening styles have changed so I can go back to stuff I maybe would never have liked in 2012?

I like the 2012 album better than this new song. Still I know nothing of the band?

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There an interesting band with a range of styles. Not exactly death metal, not exactly thrash; some progressive elements, maybe a little Meshuggah but more accessible....none of those things completely but a little of all of them? Their music sounds good in terms of fidelity, too I think. I've used Gojira when demoing gear.

 
 
Out June 8th.

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http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Abyssal/3540341441




Kaleidoscope Death from last year.

Abyssal Antikatastaseis

This came out of the U.K. June of 2015. Not exactly a new record, but a really cool one. Just everything going on now in music and a bag of chips. Sludge with Black Metal covered in Death Metal, and some experiments in classical at the egdes under it all. Jagged then smoothed out and angled guitar riffs and moving song change structures.

Abstract Jazz Death would be a title, combined with a "Kaleidoscope Twisting" amusement park ride straight to heck. As dark and as somewhat at first, hard to listen to, they then become almost euphoric and white, which again contrasts to make the dark much more dark. Black Dark.

The effects have a place in the music and are not random, nor too much.

It's like purgatory music maybe, that stopover between the ultimate fate. Looking up and then down, like only creative crazy genius minds can imagine. Much of the ability here is in the cinematic concepts of sound collage. There is a story being told in an almost music concrete way? This music is not for every metal-head, nor the general public at large. "It's special."

The kind of special that could use professional help in the end. Still if you don't take it too serious and hear it for the narrative it really is, entertainment starts to take place in a grand way. We get to hear their influences deep inside, what makes it is the fact that, even though modern, they pull off old school Suffocation drums or Asphyx style, especially in the vocals. I hate to even say it but it's post death as a genre, that or some post something, just post at times in happier areas of the record. It's moving and it sways with big washes near the end giving the album a deep majesty. The final, final kind of majesty.

We have our guitar progressions from maybe old school black metal but angle wedged like our French Black Metalers Blut Aus Nord or better yet Deathspell Omega. Still more changes, which sounds unacceptably hard to listen to, but it's not. This style is actually easy once you get the direction and feeling for vibe they are after. The music walks around being one genre then another finally arriving at it's own place. We don't have room for sound-bites but get effect with real found instrumentation like you never hear in this genre or style. Found orchestra tools and chanting interlocking with the metal, just making the whole thing super emotional and one of a kind.


Of our three reference genres here, Black Metal, Death and Sludge, Sludge gets used the least, which ends up a good thing. The whole experimental style could have been annoyingly like a John Zorn modern Jazz record, except the band's trust in the metal genre and the slight post idea-runs, keep it all flowing nicely like it should. The changes are all the the right place, just platforms getting lower and lower, heavier and heavier, till they take us again near the surface at the end of the ride.


It's far from psychedelic due to the down to earth physicality being summoned.

What to make of this is it is a great progression for the death genre, in a genre built on progression and experimentation it out does a bunch of bands. It puts to shame our modern day experimenters like Morbid Angel and beats them using their own guitar chords. It's just that the release is so musical and creative. This also makes me want to get ahold of their early stuff, as research shows it suffers from the same perfect quality as Antikatastasies does. Abyssal is a state of being? Ya? Or maybe Abyssal refers to coming from a place? What ever it means and whatever Antikatastasies means, you somehow know in the end of two listens. This music is so good it goes quick too, all 58:20 of it. They are right at home with Profound Lore Records and I wish them many more releases. Not too many more though, as this stuff is a little dangerious, the way Death Metal used to be.


A choice chaotic as your washers spin cycle. Still the cover is perfect as this music almost holds tornadoes in itself.

Not gonna lie, Profound Lore may be my personal favorite record label. It's ridiculous of how many great records are released there. Haven't heard Abyssal, so dont know much about their music though, besides that you may want to check out more of their bandcamp (their predecessor in particular) if you haven't do so.

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Not gonna lie, Profound Lore may be my personal favorite record label. It's ridiculous of how many great records are released there. Haven't heard Abyssal, so dont know much about their music though, besides that you may want to check out more of their bandcamp (their predecessor in particular) if you haven't do so.

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I have yet to scratch the surface?
 
 
 
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I have yet to scratch the surface?

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If you meant Abyssal, here you go. Pretty well-praised, I assume.
https://abyssal-home.bandcamp.com/album/novit-enim-dominus-qui-sunt-eius
 
If you meant Profound Lore, there are way too many for me to hear, but albums like Teethed Glory and Injury, Unholy Congregation of Hypocritical Ambivalance, Death Mask, Scar Sighted and quite a handful more that I have heard are some of the best by my own standards, so that statement way nothing more than a bias that is based on my taste. Furthermore, not all releases are even decent (haven't come across one that I really dislike from Profound Lore so far though), just like any other great labels. Nevertheless, he is not the only one that is doing so, but Profound Lore is one-man show, so that alone the man behind deserves some respects for distributing some of the most challenging music ever heard, even if it's not considered metal and necessarily good by anyone. Music is never about compromising to just one's taste and standards anyways and that is what draws someone like me to be here listening to what I personally like and sometimes, that I can relate to, instead of wasting my time being depressed about all the madness that surrounds me.
 
Afaik from whatever I have read on the net, Profound Lore is most well-known for released some of the music by Portal, Krallice, Pallbearer and YOB, the latter two are pretty much have some kind of worship, of course.
 
Now I have to have a listen to the latest Dälek (which I am a big fan of way before I knew they were signed by Profound Lore).

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Now I have to have a listen to the latest Dälek (which I am a big fan of way before I knew they were signed by Profound Lore).

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I didn't know Dälek had reformed - cheers for the heads up! Will have to check Asphalt For Eden...

supplehope said:

If you meant Abyssal, here you go. Pretty well-praised, I assume.
https://abyssal-home.bandcamp.com/album/novit-enim-dominus-qui-sunt-eius

If you meant Profound Lore, there are way too many for me to hear, but albums like Teethed Glory and Injury, Unholy Congregation of Hypocritical Ambivalance, Death Mask, Scar Sighted and quite a handful more that I have heard are some of the best by my own standards, so that statement way nothing more than a bias that is based on my taste. Furthermore, not all releases are even decent (haven't come across one that I really dislike from Profound Lore so far though), just like any other great labels. Nevertheless, he is not the only one that is doing so, but Profound Lore is one-man show, so that alone the man behind deserves some respects for distributing some of the most challenging music ever heard, even if it's not considered metal and necessarily good by anyone. Music is never about compromising to just one's taste and standards anyways and that is what draws someone like me to be here listening to what I personally like and sometimes, that I can relate to, instead of wasting my time being depressed about all the madness that surrounds me.

Afaik from whatever I have read on the net, Profound Lore is most well-known for released some of the music by Portal, Krallice, Pallbearer and YOB, the latter two are pretty much have some kind of worship, of course.

Now I have to have a listen to the latest Dälek (which I am a big fan of way before I knew they were signed by Profound Lore).

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I was just saying that I have only heard maybe 5 LPs of their own whole catalogue. But Profound Lore does seem to have a sound all it's own on some stuff? Profound Lore is a great change in pace from the regular Norway sound or Swedish sound. But it's free to do what it wants, as in no rules or previous ideas forced to follow, I can hear that.

Abyssal was a rare find for myself and I can't wait to hear more from them. They are compact but not as compact as Portal? I also found that due to the wall of sound Abyssal makes, it's better getting fleshed out with a detailed home rig as in contrast to trying to hear them with low quality IEMs. The vocals are low in the mix and there is a ton of stuff going on but it is hard to hear at times.

Crazy but Abyssal reminds me of the new Leviathan of last year?

 
This is the only stuff I know from them?