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ABIGAIL WILLIAMS – BECOMING (8)
‘Becoming’ is by far the most  interesting album in terms of what Abigail Williams has tried to nail down as a band defining a genre. Now weighing in alongside such underground heavyweights as Wolves In The Throne Room and Taake, it's with this third full-length that the Americans have cemented their status as supreme, 'kvlt' contenders. Abigail Williams have gone backward in time without regression as musicians. Starting off as a deathcore outfit, which in turn led to symphonic black metal and finally finishing off with ‘Becoming’.
The current record leads off with a bombarding sonic assault that lasts eleven minutes, and continues throughout as an impressively aggressive feat that many bands in black metal seem to have forgotten how to achieve. ’Radiance’ and ’Elestial’ are the highlights of a very dark and brooding album which leads the eardrum through a journey which, on first listen, is hard to comprehend.
Having captured a truly unnerving and unmistakable sense of impending doom, Abigail Williams has achieved with ‘Becoming’ one thing many black metal bands try on many occasions to do and fail. Devoted fans should forget the past incarnations of the band, and focus on the cosmic funeral that is ‘Becoming’.
Reviewed by Steve Tefis
Becoming is out now on Candlelight
You’ll like this if… the sounds of a burning cross blazing on top of a church through the night leads you into a dream like trance. |
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