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Abigail Williams: Legends

29/05/07  ||  Global Domination

This review was written by ex-staffer/cocksmoker Doomsdayzach.

When you start up a business, be it a small business or a corporation, you always have a business plan. While the world around you is going to change and will most definitely bury you if you don’t evolve with it, you still have this backbone that acts as guidance. And I completely switched metaphors there (or else just gave up in the middle of one). Thanks Global Domination for keeping me up late at night, making me write reviews and editing all my shit so when I’m trying to write another one on lunch break, I damn near fall asleep and just end up half-assing a perfectly good metaphor.

Who am I kidding? That metaphor sucked.

Point is, business plans are good. Businesses need to have them. It gives a clear direction and a clear goal of what needs to be accomplished. Now think of a band. Sure it can be something you get together with a buddy for and jam out some tunes, but there should still be some idea of what you want said band to accomplish. Abigail Williams is all over the place on this album, churning out everything from melodic death to metalcore, throw in some emo vocals, some guttural real death metal growls, and top it off with a healthy portion of black metal. Maybe it’d be easier to just call them extreme metal, but really all they are is extremely boring.

The first three tracks on this ep are pretty straight forward At the Gates worship. “From the buried heart” also throws in some emo vocals, which if I didn’t already believe there was no God, I’d question his existence. “The conqueror Wyrm” also adds some black metal influence, but nothing so blatant as the final two tracks. Both “Watchtower” and “Procession of the Aeons” end up coming off as a poor man’s Dimmu Borgir or Cradle of Filth. Cradle are already poor enough, so hopefully that gives you an idea of what we’re looking at here.

The oddest thing about this whole album is the production actually changes between tracks 3 and 4, then again from 4 to 5. I would swear up and down that this is was a 3 way split if I didn’t know any better. “Watchtower” and “Procession of the Aeons” both have really shitty sounding drums which I’m sure is just poor drum machine patches. The first three tracks at least sound more natural, but the kicks are so triggered that it’d give Nick Barker wood. Or make him jealous.

You will find a few moments here that are at least interesting, but there’s nothing here that other bands haven’t done better. It sure as hell won’t give you herpes, but it won’t make you blow your load either. I’ll go ahead and tie the ending back to the beginning by referencing the point I was making earlier. Abigail Williams is all over the place and they don’t really seem to have any sort of clear idea of what they want to accomplish with this band. I wouldn’t put up with fuckery like this again. Instead, I’d throw on three At the Gates tracks, a Dimmu track and a Cradle track and call it good.

5 half assed attempts out of 10.

  • Information
  • Released: 2006
  • Label: Candlelight
  • Website: www.abigailwilliams.net
  • Band
  • Ken Sorceron: vocals
  • Bjorn Dannov: guitars
  • Mike Wilson: guitars
  • Jordan Jackson: bass
  • Ashley Jurgemeyer: keyboards
  • Tommy Haywood Jr: drums
  • Tracklist
  • 01. From a buried heart
  • 02. Like carrion birds
  • 03. The conqueror Wyrm
  • 04. Watchtower
  • 05. Procession of the aeons

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