ABSU — The Sun of Tiphareth (review)

ABSU — The Sun of Tiphareth album cover Album · 1995 · Black Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
4.5/5 ·
Warthur
Absu's second album shows an amazing level of development over their debut, their style mutating from the more or less straight-ahead black metal (with occasional death metal vocals) of their debut into an intriguing mix of thrash metal and black metal predating Immortal's acclaimed experiments in blackened thrash by years. Occasional folky interventions and a spine-tingling spoken word part towards the end of A Quest Into the 77th Novel are numbered amongst a range of left-field features of the album - it's one of those discs where you can never quite be sure what the band are going to do next. In just one album Absu go from a band I had my doubts about to one which I am decidedly enthused by.
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Looks like someone just "entered the Apzu".

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