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Baptized in Blood – (Self-titled album) & Abigail Williams – In the Absence of Light
Album Reviews by Joseph Pipan
Here are two very different albums from two very different bands. First is the offering from Canadian metal band Baptized in Blood, which happens to be a self-titled album. This is also the London, Ontario, Canada- based band’s first album. The track list is as follows:
1. Up Shirts Down Skirts
2. Dirty’s Back
3. Game On
4. Only Cure
5. Down and Out
6. Mental
7. Last Line Lady
8. My Salute
9. Go it Alone
10. Will of a Demon
11. Sinking Ships
12. Event Horizon
This band sounds like an All that Remains copycat, but with only screaming vocals. The guitar work sounds very similar to All that Remains, albeit with the occasional original melodic hook and the typical repeating patterns. The track list has some oddly named songs, with “Up Shirts Down Skirts” and “Dirty’s Back” being among them. Baptized in Blood doesn’t have a whole lot going for them in terms of sounding original, but the guitar work is satisfactory. Overall, the album sounds like a spirited effort by the band to either cash in on the All that Remains sound or somehow break away from it.
Rating: **
Next is the latest offering from New York-based black metal band Abigail Williams. Titled In the Absence of Light, it is the band’s second album after its debut album In the Shadow of a Thousand Suns. The track list is as follows:
1. Hope The Great Betrayal
2. Final Destiny of the Gods
3. The Mysteries that Bind the Flesh
4. Infernal Divide
5. In Death Comes the Great Silence
6. What Hells Await Me
7. An Echo in Our Legends
8. Malediction
The band is named after the primary accuser in the Salem Witch trials, adequate subject matter for a black metal band…and that’s about the only interesting thing about them. Abigail Williams sounds like just about any other black metal band, with the addition of a symphonic element that barely separates it from other like-minded groups. In the Absence of Light, while a decent sampling of black metal, is generic and dull.
Rating: *
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