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Abyssal - Novit Enim Dominus Qui Sunt Eius



7.8 | 75 votes |
Release date: 1 January 2013
Style: Blackened death metal

Owners:

55 have it
11 want it


01. Forebode
02. The Tongue Of The Demagogue
03. Under The Wretched Sun Of Hattin
04. Elegy Of Ruin
05. The Headless Serpent
06. A Sheath Of Deceit
07. Elegy Of Staves
08. A Malthusian Epoch
09. As Paupers Safeguard Magnates
10. Created Sick; Commanded To Be Well
11. The Last King

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Comments: 39   Visited by: 376 users
01.01.2013 - 23:35
!J.O.O.E.!
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Oh. My. Fucking. God. This is incredible music. The first record I listen to of 2013 could potentially be the best.

Listen to track 3 on their Bandcamp. This stuff makes Portal sound like mellow. The riffs on track 5 could be taken from a Blut aus Nord record as well.

Oh my God, track 6... how can music sound so incredible and dissonant?!
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01.01.2013 - 23:50
J. N.
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This is out of this world. Holy fuck.
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02.01.2013 - 00:21
Rating: 9
Paz
777
Elite
I listen to it now... It sounds amazing and for free download!
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02.01.2013 - 00:27
!J.O.O.E.!
Account deleted
A Sheath Of Deceit = most violently dissonant song ever made.
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02.01.2013 - 02:09
BlackDuff
Written by [user id=4365] on 02.01.2013 at 00:27

A Sheath Of Deceit = most violently dissonant song ever made.

^This. Incredible track
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02.01.2013 - 15:51
Rating: 8
Curumir
I can't stop listening. The Intensity is just... Awesome!
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02.01.2013 - 23:08
Rating: 8
Demerzel
This is one really amazing record.
We're in for a great year if this is a sign of things to come.
Created Sick is just incredible.
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03.01.2013 - 06:39
Rating: 7
Dangerboner
Lactation Cnslt
Hmm, I just ordered this album today, but I also own their debut, which I wasn't too big on. Hopefully this will be better
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03.01.2013 - 19:37
!J.O.O.E.!
Account deleted
Written by Dangerboner on 03.01.2013 at 06:39

Hmm, I just ordered this album today, but I also own their debut, which I wasn't too big on. Hopefully this will be better

It's a different league. The sound and approach on this is so perfectly punishing and confident it may as well be a different band. I doubt you'll regret your purchase.
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06.01.2013 - 23:08
Rating: 8
Candlemass
Defaeco
Evil washing machines - ROCK.
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07.01.2013 - 00:17
TRPB
Yes, unfucking believable how intense and sick this god damn record is. I just bought the CD in addition to the free download. Holy jumping jesus on a fucking stick this is awesome!
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07.01.2013 - 00:18
TRPB
Written by Dangerboner on 03.01.2013 at 06:39

Hmm, I just ordered this album today, but I also own their debut, which I wasn't too big on. Hopefully this will be better

just download it for free and test run it before you buy. or just listen on bandcamp to see if you will like it. this one hit me like a ton of bricks in the face. instant 'fuck yes'.
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07.01.2013 - 03:16
psykometal
A staff guy...
Elite
You can dl it for free from Bandcamp... O.o
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07.01.2013 - 19:55
Arcesse Eum
For those curious about the title: "Indeed, the Lord recognized [those who are] his own" - a reference to the final judgement and the parting of the right-hand sheep and the left-hand goats.
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As above, so below.
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07.01.2013 - 21:39
X-Ray Rod
Skandino
Staff
Written by Arcesse Eum on 07.01.2013 at 19:55
a reference to the final judgement and the parting of the right-hand sheep and the left-hand goats.

I might also be a reference to Arnaud Amalric and his well known phrase at one of the crusades: Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius (Kill them all. For the Lord knoweth them that are His.)
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Written by BloodTears on 19.08.2011 at 18:29
Like you could kiss my ass

Written by Milena on 20.06.2012 at 10:49
Rod, let me love you.

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15.01.2013 - 18:03
Rating: 10
Ab.Victor
عرص
The Brutality Ov Cosmic !
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Stab me with hate
Enforce my fate
Pain's my belonging
To death I am longing
The death I desire
The dead I admire
See no more illusion
Just thy persecution

So finish your work
Stab me with fork
Torture with knife
End useless life
Slit all my wrists
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20.01.2013 - 16:42
Arcesse Eum
Written by X-Ray Rod on 07.01.2013 at 21:39

Written by Arcesse Eum on 07.01.2013 at 19:55
a reference to the final judgement and the parting of the right-hand sheep and the left-hand goats.

I might also be a reference to Arnaud Amalric and his well known phrase at one of the crusades: Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius (Kill them all. For the Lord knoweth them that are His.)

It is, in fact, both! Since Arnaud Amalric was referring to the Christians being killed on behalf of the siege against the albigensian/cathars.
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As above, so below.
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29.01.2013 - 11:19
MechanisT
Account deleted
Damn... what the ef did I just listen to?
Abyssal just owned all of the "post-death" stuff I've ever heard. So incredibly foreboding.
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30.01.2013 - 20:03
Rating: 9
mz
Listened to it once this day. I need more spins before fully grasping the atmosphere but this is excellent for sure.
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Giving my ears a rest from music.
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02.02.2013 - 21:04
Rating: 9
?apleee
Mouthcrab
This album is like degenerating into an echo chamber of hostility.
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"Without judgement, perception would increase a million times."~Chuck Schuldiner

Less coherent than Anal Cunt.

Eric Brecht once liked my Facebook comment. Therefore, by the translative property, Chuck Schuldiner like my comment.
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22.02.2013 - 23:14
IronAngel
I don't know. If the production wasn't so tasty and all-consuming, it would be a fairly boring affair. Can't say I've come back to it much now that other stuff has been released. But I've got to admit, the sheer immensity of the sound is awesome.
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22.02.2013 - 23:29
Rating: 7
tea[m]ster
Au Pays Natal
Contributor
Alright, I suppose I should see what all the fuss is about...
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24.02.2013 - 22:16
Rating: 7
tea[m]ster
Au Pays Natal
Contributor
Written by [user id=109200] on 29.01.2013 at 11:19

Damn... what the ef did I just listen to?
Abyssal just owned all of the "post-death" stuff I've ever heard. So incredibly foreboding.

Perfect summary. Shit is pure unadulterated evil. Very different for me. I love it when I find something good in other areas of music I'm not familiar with.
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24.02.2013 - 22:35
theFIST
Awesome
even with the new Portal out this probably is the best portalesque death metal album of the year
not quite up to swarth standards, but incredibly close
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Written by Warman on 07.11.2007 at 22:39
Haha, that's like saying "compose your own Metal album and upload it here, instead of writing a review of an album". :lol:

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05.03.2013 - 21:43
Rating: 9
Góral
Combo Breaker
It's March 5, and it's still one of the best stuff I've heard this year.
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15.03.2013 - 00:58
Illog1cal
Account deleted
The CD is being released in shops on April 1st. I missed my opportunity to buy the CD from Bandcamp but now I can get it.
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29.05.2013 - 16:47
Rating: 7
musicalkaratekid
The sound on this album is generally depressive and brooding, but with an extremely dark tone and overbearing heaviness courtesy of the guitar work. For me the instrumentals running under a minute cut the flow of the album and the vocals appear to be buried too much into the mix, but with excellently structured songs such as 'The headless serpent' and quite brilliant instrumental 'Created sick; Commanded to be well' Abyssal seem to be firing on all cylinders with this album. Perhaps next time the band could forget about putting those sub-minute instrumentals into the finished product.
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28.06.2013 - 18:19
Rating: 9
Boxcar Willy
yr a kook
Crazy good.
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I do your mum

DESTROY DRUM TRIGGERS
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19.07.2013 - 01:59
Rating: 9
mz
Wasn't this album staff picked? I cant see it now
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Giving my ears a rest from music.
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19.07.2013 - 02:05
!J.O.O.E.!
Account deleted
Written by mz on 19.07.2013 at 01:59

Wasn't this album staff picked? I cant see it now

If it's gone it was probably picked by J.N. who has a habit of deleting things
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