Oakland's Abstracter have announced a new album, Wound Empire.
The new album will release Feb. 10, 2015 on several labels and formats, including Germany's Vendetta Records and 7Degrees Records, Italy's Shove Records, UK-based Church of Fuck, and US labels Fragile Branch Recordings, Sentient Ruin Laboratories, and An Out Recordings. It is the band's second full-length album.
The album's artwork comes from Kevin Gan Yuen of Sutekh Hexen.
Loads of bands that I follow or followed start out pretty heavy and during their career start to get (a bit more) mellow. Sometimes this evolution is only marginal, sometimes a band is almost unrecognisable after a few albums. Abstracter evolved as well over the course of their albums. Instead of mellowing down their sound, they have evolved in another … Read more
Mattia (Abstracter) SPB: In my opinion Abstracter has adopted a more and more bleak sound over time. Do you perceive the development of Abstracter in the same way? What influences this development? Mattia: It is undeniable that the sound has gotten bleaker. This was the band's fate all along in … Read more
Let's go back to 2011, to when Andy Curtis-Brignell signed the death warrant for his solo, black metal of sorts project, Caïna. We spoke about it at length and the final record, Hands That Pluck, was a fitting tribute to closing a chapter in life. Come the end of 2012 … Read more
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