Verwüstung – Invoke the Dark Age
Occupation
- Vocals: Silenius
- Guitar: P.K.
- Drums, guitar: T.T.
- Keyboard: Rune
Devastation / Invoke the Dark Age is the debut album of the Austrian black metal band Abigor.
Formation
The entire material is reworked songs from the demo recordings; the first recording with exclusively new songs was their EP. The CD was released with a black and white and a colored cover; the former was limited to 1000 copies.
Title list
Beneath a Steel Sky and A Spell of Dark and Evil were written and recorded by keyboardist Rune, all other titles of Abigor. The texts were written by P.K.
Shaping
The cover shows one of the members with corpse paint and shirtless in the woods with blurred lights in the foreground in daylight. The musician is surrounded by a circle of sigils.
On the back there is a picture of the three members with corpse paint and weapons on a ruin at night next to the phrase "God's throne is ours. Turn on Jesus Christ - the loser. Hail Satan " and a picture of Euronymous of Mayhem.
Style of music and texts
The Black Metal of the written and rehearsed by Rune Title Beneath a Steel Sky and A Spell of Dark and Evil are different from where it is ambient music with darübergelegtem piano solo.
The lyrics are about the end of the Trinity and the saints, satanic rituals, the worship of Satan and his rule announced in the coming dark age.
Reviews
Frank Stoever designated Abigor in Voices from the Darkside as the best and most professional after Summoning Black Metal Band of Austria and her debut as a great publication. Wrote John Chedsey of Satan Stole My Teddy Bear, although the band firmly rooted in what he regarded as the parody way most outward signs of Black Metal ( " silly " corpse paint and the photographs in the liner notes ), whether they demonstrate to devastation / Invoke the Dark Age, what it was all for a good, solid black metal album. The album transported through a dark, pensive, angry and scary atmosphere. There convince by Abigors ability to write sharp lead guitar runs and vary too high tempos and musical " attacks ". The album was a good start, if you do not yet know Abigor, and best known to him the band. Also Turov from Vönger music magazine described it as best Abigor - release, " a classic of Black Metal" and one of the best albums of the genre. The album had been " very thoughtfully arranged ": " The two guitar tracks complement each other great, from time to time occurring Keyboard does the rest. One can say that this album is more complex than I care Emperors ' Anthems ...', even if the sound is very raw and unpolished. "
Toroddfuglesteg of Prog Archives According lacks the album to the qualities of other bands of that time as Burzum, he himself had Abigor always considered a third-rate black metal band saw and confirmed by this album; it is only suitable for diehard black metal fans. However, eight minutes long Kingdom of Darkness is a very good song. According to Gino Filicetti of Chronicles of Chaos devastation appears / Invoke the Dark Age at first hearing as a typical black metal album, but is levied on closer listening by certain nuances evolving to a higher plane of existence. He also gave the Kingdom of Darkness as one of his favorites.