Abigail Williams - The Accuser

Ken Bergeron temporarily disbanded Abigail Williams following a complicated economic/personal situation, but reformed it months later and released The Accuser in 2015. The album starts with a nebulous D-based sulfuric drone, "Path of Broken Glass", which sounds identical to Horna's tracks on Envaatnags Eflos Solf Esgantaavne, cathartic but compositionally banal. "The Cold Lines" sounds like a miniature of Agalloch/Opeth, "Out of the Outer Darkness" is another cathartic carefree blast in the vein of Ildjarn and early Lord Belial, but "Will, Wish and Desire" subverts everything jumping into Nargaroth/Austere-like major-key balladry. "Godhead" sounds like a post-Trist/Blut Aus Nord Depressive Black hybrid, "Forever Kingdom of Dirt" excellently balances blast-beat dissonance and open-sounding pastoral chording in a very natural way, "Lost Communion" sounds more feral than usual, and closing cut "Nuummite" is based over absurd Pink Floyd-like Psychedelic/Blues Rock honky open-chord guitar tones not unlike "Shine On You Crazy Diamond".The guitar's production is so saturated to cross low-fidelity territory, with increases the spontaneity factor. This, coupled with the more liberating songwriting, makes Abigail Williams less bound to stereotypes and cliches: going from Dimmu Borgir plagiarism to such a demonstration of variety is a beautiful intent, and results in the project's best album to date, even if not exactly consistent.Highlights: "Will, Wish and Desire", "Forever Kingdom of Dirt", "Nuummite".

this was the best album realeased in 2015

I like the earlier stuff, but this album is fucking brilliant...hands down this is there finest!

Tfw lowering the audio quality doesn't matter because it's black metal

I love this black metal surf vibe.

psy atmosphere

They've matured, and got A LOT fucking darker. -I-

I am REALLY fucking digging this!!!

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I prefer ken's earlier vocals but this is still good.

people that want every album to be the same are fucking stupid

Some passages with clean voices remembers me dismal euphony..

Es un buen album pero no le llega al "In the Shadow of a Thousand Suns" ..