Abstracter
Cinereous Incarnate
I Voidhanger Records (2018)
Loads of bands that I follow or followed start out pretty heavy and during their career start to get (a bit more) mellow. Sometimes this evolution is only marginal, sometimes a band is almost unrecognisable after a few albums. Abstracter evolved as well over the course of their albums. Instead of mellowing down their sound, they have evolved in another direction. Things have gotten harsher over time. Cinereous Incarnate is their third full length. On their debut Tomb Of Feathers and their second album Wound Empire Abstracter played roughly with the same influences as on Cinereous Incarnate: doom, sludge, death metal and black metal. To my ears the doom and sludge influences were in the lead on those first two albums. I liked them enough to follow the band, but I really only played them when I was looking for sludgy music that wasn't too harsh. In 2016 Abstracter released a split album with Dark Circles. I clearly remember listening to that split for the first time. Abstracter added a load of black - and death metal influences. The whole atmosphere of the music was changed to something really punishing. Partly because the added power in the vocals. Either they … Read more
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MCA Nashville (2018)
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Ninja Tune (2018)
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