Aug 142018
 

 

The effect of listening to the new EP by the French black/death band Absolvtion is similar to what I imagine I’d feel if I turned a corner and found a cobra immediately at my feet, its head raised, its hood open wide, swaying, about to strike. I’d feel shock and fear mixed with repulsion, but I’d be transfixed, mesmerized by the terrible beauty of the thing, frozen in fascination.

Gallow’s Destiny exerts a similar mesmerizing attraction, a similar capacity to freeze you in your steps, and at the same time it’s unnerving and poisonous. It tends to blot out rational thought, paralyzing that part of your mind and then sinking its fangs deep. Continue reading »

Jun 102018
 

 

In May we presented the premiere of “The Lion’s Face”, one of four tracks on Gallow’s Destiny, the new EP by the French black/death metal band Absolvtion that will be released by Atavism Records on July 31st. Today we have another track from the EP for you, this one entitled “Concrescence of the Opposite“.

“The Lion’s Face” pulled the listener headlong into an alien nightmare, choking with the aroma of pestilence and dazzled by visions of shape-shifting archfiends. Both diabolically oppressive and irresistibly innervating, the song was an eye-opening herald to Absolvtion’s rising power within the globe-spanning realms of the black/death underground. The song you’re about to hear only further strengthens the appeal of the EP. Continue reading »

May 062018
 

 

The Lion’s Face” is one of four tracks on Gallow’s Destiny, the new EP by the French black/death metal band Absolvtion, whose debut was the Obscure Catharsis demo in 2016. Gallow’s Destiny will be released on July 31st by Atavism Records, and “The Lion’s Face” is the first sign of the terrors that Absolvtion have created in this new work.

The music here pulls the listener headlong into an alien nightmare, choking with the aroma of pestilence and dazzled by visions of shape-shifting archfiends. Both cruelly oppressive and irresistibly innervating, the song becomes an eye-opening herald to Absolvtion’s rising power within the globe-spanning realms of the black/death underground. Continue reading »