Abigail- "Decending from a Blackened Sky"

Artist: Abigail (Japan)
Album: Decending from a Blackened Sky

The album starts off with a boring bell instrumental (entitled "Swing Your Hammer"), which sets up for a gothic-inspired sound. But, at the second track, "The Lord of Satan", it immediately jumps into a low quality bastardization of black metal. The vocalist has an annoying, "hardcore" growl and the instruments are difficult to even hear. From what I do hear, however, it's just noise: the dummer apparently only knows of the cymbals on his kit, the guitarist is just strumming away some terrible riff as the vocalist growls and laughs all "scary-like". And don't bother with the bassist, the quality is so bad, I can hardly hear it. And that's just the second track.

The third track (Mephistopheles) isn't quite as bad, but it's still bad. At least I hear an attempt at composition. It's a start. Even if it sounds almost identical to their last track, Count Barboros. Okay, nevermind, it's really, really bad.

Track four, Decending from a Blackened Sky, is another boring midi-bell instrumental. Is this really necessary? You'd think you'd make the track that your album is named after a bit more... quality. Abigail must just be too ~*~HaRdCoRe~*~ for quality. I just don't ~*~UNDERSTAND IT~*~. Okay, okay, enough with the sparkles.

Count Barboros, the final track (thank God), begins with that obnoxious growly laugh and has practically the same damn sound as the last tracks. Fuck, this is terrible.

Okay, I've had enough. I admit I'm not much of a metal head, especially black metal and the like. But I know bad composition when I hear it. And this is it.

0 out of 5. Yes, I can do that.