IMPRESSIVE BLACK METAL // Abigor - Terrorkommando Eligos // Composer Reaction & Analysis
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- Опубліковано 4 лип 2024
- Bryan reacts to and talks about his thoughts on Terrorkommando Eligos
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0:00 Intro
00:51 Reaction
07:18 Analysis - Certainly Sounds Like A War
09:38 Analysis - Some Guitar Talk
15:06 Analysis - Phenomenal Drumming
19:31 Analysis - Surprisingly Clear Vocals
21:42 Analysis - Expanded Instrumentation
26:20 Analysis - Lyrical Dive
29:33 Outro
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Whoever suggested Abigor has good taste.
I still listen to the "Nachthymnen (From the Twilight Kingdom)" album often. Scars in the Landscape of God is such a solid track
Their latest album that came out this year is also amazing. I love every album by Abigor, and their latest is actually one of my favorite! I’d love a full Abigor album review.
Ambiance is just mental on the last one, they are the kings.
I love this band. One of the few bands that seem to evolve their sound all the time while staying true to themselves. Even the heavily industrial albums work for me.
chord progression vs. riff is a rather good observation regarding to lot of black metal guitars.
Abigor rising, Eligos ascending!!!
7:10 hans zimmer
Can't believe Abigor "bwaaaaaum"ed us
That's the dude!
Gorgoroth-gorgoroth my brother I beg of you
From Abigor I've only heard the interestingly titled song "Liberty Rises a Diagonal Flame", which is even more post-black than this. This stuff here sounds a lot like Keep of Kalessin I'd say, another black metal band with "epic" and "knightly" feels. Feel free to check them out, they've got some nice songs such as "Ascendant" or "Epistemology" which you'd definitely like. But first I'd definitely like to see your reaction to Scar Symmetry - The Kaleidoscopic God
Looks like you are into these kind of black metal, and I highly suggest you to check out Verberis - Arteries Unto Ruin II from The Apophatic Wilderness.
Abigor are certainly an interesting odity. They have a very long career going for over 30 years now, and are a part of the second wave, at least temporally. The same experimental elements were present in their early sound, but they were different than this experimentation. Their early stuff was almost an exercise in free form, near structureless melody. Guitars would often play melodic counterpoint, but there were almost no riffs, it all felt like they improvised it all on the spot. To make it weirder, they would include acoustic guitars and keys out of nowhere, and many German and Austrian bands that came after would pick up on that, most notably Dornenreich, whose second album could be seen as a much cruder blueprint for what Ne Obliviscaris eventually did. It's all connected, sorta
Is there a specific song you'd suggest to hear what you described? I'm intrigued by your description of their free form writing.
@@CriticalReactions "I Face The Eternal Winter" from the Nachthymen album is a pretty good example of chaotic melody, if you want it contained. It goes from a call and response with the keyboards, to blasting, to acoustic interludes, to a female vocal section to a folksy outro because reasons and it's all within 4:35 minutes. But even that might be a bit structured so I'd present as an alternative their Orkblut "album". I say "album" because they call it that, even though it's a bit over 20 minutes and very weirdly structured. It's too chaotic to say it's structured as a single song, though it has recurring melodies and themes, and no separation between them.
It's also still recognisably the same band. The chaos seen there is more or less the one on display here, with the old stuff being more a product of that very 90s metal rule of slapping together sections just because. But same composing and same drummer.
To emphasise the more or less improv nature of their early work, within 1994 and 1996 they recorded 4 albums in notoriously short recording sessions. Their average time in studio in those days was 4 days per album.
@@CriticalReactions Also, if you ever want a more modern take on the idea, the second (and last) album by the band Svartidaudi modernises a lot of the early Abigor sound by using the same approach to free flowing melodic guitars and drumming that often is just doing its own thing (which goes beyond mere blasting).
@@thegrimner I only have their 90s stuff with Nachthymnen being my most listened to and Scars in Landscape of god being my favourite song. Any recommendations for their more recent stuff? is it similar to this song?
@@blindguardian1979 couldn't really tell you, I kind of lost track of them after they reformed. What I heard from this album sounds good, though.
Just another quick wee disclaimer that Abigor are known to be friends with neo-nazis as notorious as Hendrik Möbus of Absurd and have defended their actions, going as far as calling Möbus a "friend of the band"...
One of the members also stated that he shares "parts of Möbus' worldview". In case you don't know, Möbus killed a 15 year old from his school when he was 17 and has since been one of Germany's most prominent neo-nazis.
eligos is another game for demon abigor btw
(also i checked if castlevania has this demon as enemy, since they like to do that, and in fact they do! eligor is a giant centaur looking boss in "order of ecclesia")
Oof -- I just played OoE this year and that boss was such a tough one for me. I think I just had the wrong glyphs but I hate grinding for random drops so I just brute forced with what I had 😂
Interesting tidbit about the names. I wonder if Abigor knew that when they wrote the lyrics.
@@CriticalReactions i'm pretty sure they did 😅i expect these types of satanic bm bands to be demonology nerds
@@CriticalReactions i played ooe last year i think, didn't beat it yet though 😓 i stopped at the castle somewhere after wall-moving boss
@@ShadinCore Part of me says you should finish it up but another says you're probably better off not. I really like OoE for trying something different with the formula and feeling like a true combination of both the classic and IGA style Castlevanias but I know it's one of the weaker ones of the GBA/NDS sextet.
I'll suggest 'Tyende Sang' (servant song) by Afsky. I always thought the melody and chord progressions hit hard. And even more impactful with the context of the translated lyrics (ua-cam.com/video/vhwhDI3OW1o/v-deo.html). It is a poem by Jeppe Aakjær from 1900 in Denmark about indentured servants "the song describes the conditions many farm workers lived under. It encourages rebellion and emphasizes pride, optimism and togetherness."