Absu

[Eoin McLove]

Yeah that call out culture is really frightening stuff.  The bastard double edge of the internet sword.

I have been grabbing the CDs because Invictus has them in stock so I'll fire on with that.  The booklet on 'Tara' is so thick I'm surprised they did a jewel case edition for it.  It hardly fits into the box.  Looks great, though,  and I might have a gander at their website at some stage.

[Necr0rceN]

Absu are a class band, shame about the break up alright. Listening to them VITRIOL when I was in secondary school. That video they did a few years back is class, often give it a spin on a YouTube beer night

https://youtu.be/FZmt_Qmdy0w

and the ole Manannan video from the VHS era, who can forget that.

https://youtu.be/PY5mdWGDcN4

But don't miss their greatest song ever

https://youtu.be/bHeBw5R9wjI

[open face surgery]

Yeah that call out culture is really frightening stuff.  The bastard double edge of the internet sword.

I have been grabbing the CDs because Invictus has them in stock so I'll fire on with that.  The booklet on 'Tara' is so thick I'm surprised they did a jewel case edition for it.  It hardly fits into the box.  Looks great, though,  and I might have a gander at their website at some stage.

Dunno if its in the insleeve or if I read it elsewhere but Kris Verwimp claims to have taken soil from the Hill of Tara and mixed it in the ink he used for the cover.

[mickO)))]

Equitant recently opened up a shop selling all sorts of great Absu shirts, hoodies etc. best of all 99% of them have no backprints. I think I will place an order this week been thinking about it for a while. And shipping by US standards is very good.

https://blackmontanas.bigcartel.com/?fbclid=IwAR2FCgkhvzku8nsGhOPM7CFuV0-JTS7DriB6NcMCfQ97oHmEYOz98m6ErwY

He also posted this on youtube recently 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysOrFkK2BKQ&fbclid=IwAR3mGnlBmh966sa7f_TPKM4p0Mm8mtSFQJwz-2cZedq_xnhxHqDRicBuwrk

And here is one of the Slayer audition videos. Most people have probably already seen them many times before.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bd8YvaSaNqE&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR3oc6SJyOkhFmjdxYdRN-Ep4Yg36v_4bItlt9Wy-C3myWIxwEZkpea2ghQ

[Eoin McLove]

The Barathrum VITRIOL design is tempting. Hmmm.

[Ducky]

Mandatory listening

Yet one seems out of her depth with Proscriptor.

[polymer]

Maybe the one who's now 'female' could team up with the dude from Liturgy (who recently came out as 'female') and create some truly interesting black metal?

[Eoin McLove]

I think we can all agree it's important for black metal musicians to have their finger on the pulse of the most important and pressing issues of the day- so we can only hope.

[Floss]

Haven't really heard their other stuff but that self titled album is awesome. Night Fire Canonization and Amy are crackers.

[Blizzard Beast]

Tara is a great album.

[Cailleach]

Tara is easily their  best album- it's one of the finest black/ thrash metal albums ever released.

[Floss]

cheers!

[Eoin McLove]

'Barathrum VITRIOL' on here now. Such a ferocious album.

[mickO)))]

Looks like the band is back with a slightly new name and have signed to Agonia records. New album out by the end of this year.


PROSCRIPTOR MCGOVERN'S APSÛ Signs With Agonia Records: New Album To Be Announced In Late 2020
Agonia Records today confirms the signing of the new, Texas-based "mythological occult metal" act Proscriptor McGovern's Apsû. The debut/self-titled album's release date is to be announced in the latter portion of 2020.

When drummer/vocalist Proscriptor (Russ R. Givens) dissolved Absu on January 27th 2020, his main intention was to splinter the 30-year old faction into a renewed songwriting concord. Proscriptor McGovern's Apsû is the obvious by-product of that chemical breakdown and securing the ranks is continuing bassist/vocalist Ezezu and new guitar virtuoso Vaggreaz.

Proscriptor says of the resurgence: "I want people to know that I disbanded Absu to form Proscriptor McGovern's Apsû with underpinning intention, despite the inclusion of my name, as an armorial bearing to pay tribute to the former sanctuary. I do not consider myself the band's leader, but more of an administrator. I may be an oppressive commissioner, but Proscriptor McGovern's Apsû is an equal, collective unit."
Proscriptor continues regarding the album's lyrical approach: "This album is written for those who are curious and unwearied in their quest of arcane knowledge. I have (with vast exertion and detriment of time and space) collected knowledge deemed, in regard to my subject theories of 'mythological occult metal:' from Thelemic Magick and The Zos Vel Thanatos Formula to Fractal Ontology and (obviously) Near East Mythology."

The album is being chronicled at studios around the world with final mixing being handled in Dallas, Texas by J.T. Longoria and mastering by Karl Daniel Lidén in Sweden. The album also features guest appearances from Vorskaath (Zemial), Ross Friedman (Ross The Boss), Jeff Becerra (Possessed), Rune Eriksen (Aura Noir/Vltimas), Alex Colin-Tocquaine (Agressor) and The Dark (Agatus). To assemble the album's packaging with ten separate portrait illustrations, the band has re-commissioned the expertise of renowned Polish artist Zbigniew Bielak.

Final track listing for "Proscriptor McGovern's Apsû" is:
I. Amenta: Accelerando: Azyn including Hierophantasmal Expounder
II. Esoterically Excoriating The Exoteric
III. Quasaric Pestilence
IV. Mirroracles
V. In-Betweeness Gateway Commuters
VI. Jupiter In Capricornus
VII. Dedicated To Thoth, But Azathoth Wasn't Listening (A Necroloquy)
VIII. Caliginous Whorl
IX. The Coagulating Respite
X. Prana: Therion: Akasha
XI. Tantrums Of Azag-Kkû
XII. Every Watchtower Within Is The Axis Of A Watchtower Without including Totemic Thresholds

PROSCRIPTOR MCGOVERN'S APSÛ is:
Proscriptor McGovern – Drums/Percussion, Lyricism, Maestro Echoplex, Papago Flute, (Analogue & Digital) Synthesizers & Voices (1st Person Protagonist)
Vaggreaz – Electric Lead, Rhythm & Acoustic Guitar (2nd Person Inquisitor)
Ezezû – Electric Bass Guitar, Implements & Voices (3rd Person Omniscient)

[Eoin McLove]

Good stuff. Contributions from Zemial and Agatus sounds promising.