Band:	Abime
Album:	Échos De Gloire
Style:	Black metal
Release date:	August 02, 2005
Guest review by:	Fearmeister

01. Intro
02. End Of hope, Begin Of The Conquest
03. Renaissance Des Abysses
04. Death For The Slave
05. Constellation Du sens
06. Ode A La haine
07. L' Appel Du Sang
08. Outro

Abime's sole full-length plays a style of black metal that is utter worship of the second wave, with everything that includes lo-fi production, an intro that features an organ with howling winds overlapped in the background, and a front man doing his best Varg impersonation. Échos de gloire is reminiscent of early Darkthrone or Burzum in that the riffs seemed to be ripped from the outtakes of the outtakes of Transylvanian Hunger or Hvis Lyset Tar Oss, with dissonant tremolo melodies up the wazoo. However, the quality of these riffs contains only a fraction of the magic of what makes me love those two albums as passionately as I do. In fact, many of the tracks on this album repeat themselves to the point of boredom.

The guitars sound eerily like something you would find off of Transylvanian Hunger or Panzerfaust, and the drums sound weak. The bass, for the most part, slugs along with the chords. Although, to the band's credit, the bass also sometimes strays from the chords and performs some marginally interesting lines, even more interesting than the guitars it's playing over, though these are far from a common occurrence.

Abime is just another "me too!" band that has since been lost and condoned to the wastes of mediocrity. I personally wouldn't recommend this, though it might appeal to someone who is in desperate need of some more black metal for whatever reason, and worships the second wave more than our lord Satan himself. Their logo is pretty cool though?