Abigail Williams - Legend
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Artist: Abigail WilliamsEdition: Music CD
Format: EP, Limited Edition
CD Release Date: 2007-01-23
Music Label: Candlelight
Soundtracks:
- From the Buried Heart
- Like Carrion Birds
- The Conqueror Wyrm
- Watchtower
- Procession of the Aeons [Exclusive Demo]
Music reviews of Legend
Music Review: Dramatic and Melodic
Rating: 5 Stars
I stop just short of calling this 5-song outing a masterpiece, the vocals are broad, encompassing some high-pitched "At the Gates" or "Black Dahlia" kind of screaming, with standard Death Metal growls, to some really appropriate clean singing on a few passages. There are a few nitpicks I have with the release, but it should be well known that that's my job as a reviewer. Find the flaws so you feel more educated and don't buy before you leap.
The first song has one and only one flaw... they almost perfectly rip off a riff from Dark Tranquillity's "The New Build."
This is immediately forgiving in the next track, a melodeath masterpiece "Like Carrion Birds." This is my favorite track on the EP... the opening riff being enough to hook me, and has some of the best power metal solos heard in a melodeath album.
"The Conqueror Wyrm" begins with a synth intro that feels appropriately but they lose a tad of steam when the guitars pick up by borrowing a riff pattern from Amon Amarth's "Runestones to my Memory," specifically the verse riff. The slow breakdown borrows heavily from In Flames... song not coming to memory. Criticism aside, everything I'd want from a melodeath record.
"The Watchtower" starts out with a middle eastern feel (using phrygian notes) and is a nice speedy tune where you get to hear very close up how the vocalist gets his banshee wail. This song also brings in a teutonic-sounding chorus that reminds me of some other Black Metal bands before launching into an atonal jazz solo that while not completely original... is virtuoso level in technical skill. The song moves into a very Emporer-esque sound about 1:40 from the end and manages to blend in several styles.
"Procession of the Aeons" starts out like an Abazogorath tune, definitely the blackest track on the album. This song is a blend of many different styles, and as such comes out sounding pretty fresh. The Black Metal speed carries throughout and is wonderful.
In conclusion, this collection of 5 songs should be promptly purchased by open-minded fans of metal. They cross so many metal genres that it is at least a fresh take if not necessarily original, and is more than the sum of its parts.
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