Abstrakt is going to the stars.
Created in 2008 in Finland, the band records three demos, then builds an album in 2013. Eight years after, Azul Corax (guitar/keyboards), Nightderanger (vocals), Apostate (guitar) and Insomniac (bass) put the final touch to Uncreation, their second album.
Ex Vanitas, the majestic introduction, sets the pace: the band is ready to offer its best production to date, between Black Metal and Symphonic music. The fight begins with From Chaos To Creation, a song that pushes majestic tones to their paroxysm since the very beginning. A massive and dark Black/Death falls upon us, embellished by those theatrical howlings and unhealthy orchestrations, then the heady rhythmic of Etherstorm comes. The song is incredibly catchy, using seizing melodies to accompany the massive howlings and the ghostly backing vocals. Leads take an important place in this composition, while The Great Chasm of Humanity plays on this weighing and horrific ambience. But the band creates a sharp contrast by injecting piercing and joyful leads to this melting, then the mystical Prophet of Fire is next. Whether the song is very solid, orchestrations offer it an imperial dimension. The rhythmic’s epic and melancholic sonorities make it one of the catchiest song of the album.
The Ascendant comes next with faraway and airy but very strange and harrowing sounds, like this siren and those whispers, then orchestral parts come back to le place to silence and Inferno. Even if the song is surrounded by this mystical aura, it is still oppressive and massive. The blackness is about to overrun at each riff,just like this airy melancholy which slowly transforms into an organized chaos. Radiant Darkness goes back to Symphonic Black Metal’s roots, offering a rawer and more piercing rhythmic, allowing orchestrations to strengthen those aggressive parts or to sublimate dissonant leads. Screaming For Vengeance connects heaviness and sharp harmonics for a very ambient moment, offering infernal and unhealthy parts, coupled to more than majestic riffs before the last song. Uncreation offers us a dark compendium of what the band shows us on this album. To a solid rhythmic, the band adds warlike orchestrations, mystical parts and above all a visceral rage that ignites everything.
Abstrakt evolved. If their first album was very good, Uncreation pushes their creativity to the next level, melting unhealthy Black with majestic Symphonic orchestrations and an unholy craftsmanship.
90/100