ABSU - Review Of New York Show With SOTHIS And RUMPELSTILTSKIN GRINDER Available
June 27, 2009, 15 years ago
PiercingMetal.com's Ken Pierce has posted a review of ABSU's June 21st show in New York at BB King's with SOTHIS and RUMPELSTILTSKIN GRINDER. An excerpt is available below.
"Fronted and led by the legendary Proscriptor on drums, Absu is a straight-ahead Black Metal band with no symphonic elements and very simply loaded with power from top to bottom. Of late they have been referring to their brand of Metal mayhem as being Mythological Occult Metal and I had to say that this would be a new one for me. Their newest CD is entitled very simply Absu and it’s another one that I have yet to purchase, but when I compared the tracks on the release against the set list that was performed had found that a lot of this new CD was delivered for the fans. As I mentioned, the band finds the drumming of Proscriptor keeping it together, and the musician is also the bands lead singer. He performs in full silver face paint and seems almost robotic when he arrives on the stage. He walked out to a great amount of cheers and he just stood there motionless with the sticks in his outstretched arms like a cyborg. Despite this image, the musician would talk to the crowd on a number of occasions and introduce almost every song. He seemed pleased at the turnout, which I still felt should have been a lot better, but if he liked it I was surely not going to argue."Go to this location for the complete review, setlists and picture galleries.
