Abigail (band)
| Abigail | |
|---|---|
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| General information | |
| origin | Tokyo , Japan |
| Genre (s) | Black metal , thrash metal |
| founding | 1992 |
| Founding members | |
| Yasuyuki Suzuki | |
Bass, vocals |
Barbatos |
| Y. Ono | |
guitar |
Yasunori Nagamine (until 1993, 1995-2005) |
| Current occupation | |
Vocals, bass, guitar |
Yasuyuki Suzuki |
Drums |
Youhei (from 1995) |
Abigail is a Japanese black / thrash metal band from Tokyo .
history
The band was formed in 1992. The first demos were recorded together with Barbatos (bass, vocals), Y. Ono (drums) and Yasunori Nagamine (guitar). The EP Descending from a Blackend Sky recorded Yasuyuki Suzuki alone. Suzuki negotiated a contract with the Australian label Modern Invasion . So Abigail set out to record her debut album Intercourse & Lust . In the meantime, a split CD was recorded with the Dutch band Funeral Winds , which was initially limited to 700 copies, as well as the single Confound Eternal , on which Youhei first appeared as a drummer. Due to the dissatisfaction with the sales of Intercourse & Lust , the collaboration with Modern Invasion was terminated.
It took two years to complete the debut album. It was finally released in May 1997. Between 1997 and 2001 the band mostly paused. During this time Suzuki and Yasunori founded the Cutthroat project together with Mirai Kawashima from Sigh . 2001 Abigail reported back with a split single together with Decayed . Abigail then covered bulldozers . This was followed by the EP Welcome All Hell Fuckers , which was released on the French label Drakkar Productions . Shortly thereafter, Abigail played for the first time in North America. Together with the Japanese band Anwyl she toured under the motto Black Metal Yakuza . Several split singles, including Witchburner and Sabbat , followed. In October 2003 the band toured Europe with Morrigan and Eminence . In addition to two live albums, the album Forever Street Metal Bitch was also released .
Since 2003 the band has released several live, split and best-of albums. Sweet Baby Metal Slut , their last regular studio album, was released in 2009. Only Suzuki and Youhei are left of the original line-up, guitarist Yasunori left in 2005, before the third album, Ultimate Unholy Death . Abigail has not found a permanent guitarist since then. Suzuki plays all the instruments on the releases except for the drums, and on live performances they help out with the help of guitarists from friendly bands. On Sweet Baby Metal Slut Noboru "Jero" Sakuma took over the lead guitars from the Japanese heavy metal band Gorgon .
style
Abigail plays a mixture of old school Thrash and Black Metal, with her early work representing a “pure” Black Metal sound and her late work being more oriented towards Thrash Metal. The main influencing factors are the thrash and speed metal classics such as Venom , Hellhammer and Sodom . Characteristic, as with many Japanese bands, is the immense output of releases in single format. On the numerous releases, the members of the band often pay their tribute to lesser known figures of the underground such as Bulldozer and NME . The band's Thrash Metal is not dissimilar to that of Sabbat, but played much more primitive and faster.
The lyrics use the typical metal clichés, but also build a connection to the yakuza lifestyle. Occasionally Suzuki refers to his style as "Yakuza Metal". They often refer to themselves as "the most evil band in Japan".
"That lyrics are my life style. Metal is sex! Metal is beer! Ha ha. I'm really enjoy listen metal music with drink beer. Beer and metal is my best medicine. "
When asked about relations with Germany (Suzuki published a split EP with Abigail with Morrigan and one with Barbatos with the Wolfsburg project by absurd singer Ronald Möbus ), Suzuki replied that he was “very proud of the good relationship with Germany during the 2nd . World War ". The split EP with Morrigan should "demonstrate that the German-Japanese friendship will never die". In 2011 the release of a split EP with Akashah via Darker Than Black Records was announced; the EP was released in 2013.
Suzuki also plays in the Japanese thrash metal band Barbatos, was briefly a member of Sigh and also plays in the thrash metal / D-beat band Tiger Junkies .
Discography (selection)
Demos
- 1992: Demo 1
- 1993: Blasphemy Night
Albums
- 1997: Intercourse and Lust
- 2003: Forever Street Metal Bitch
- 2004: Fucking Louder than Hell
- 2005: Ultimate Unholy Death
- 2009: Sweet Baby Metal Slut
EPs and singles
- 1993: Descending from a Blackend Sky
- 1996: Confound Eternal
- 2001: Welcome All Hell Fuckers
- 2005: Eastern Force of Evil
- 2007: Abigail's Tribute to NME
Compilations
- 2005: Abigail Loves Ilona, as She Is the Very Best
- 2007: The Early Black Years
- 2011: The Lord of Satan
live
- 2003: The Gig of Wrath
- 2003: Diabolical Nights of Infernal Desecration
- 2005: Possession Demoniaca
- 2005: Alive ... in Italy
- 2006: Alive ... in Thailand
- 2006: Alive ... in USA
- 2008: Alive ... in Singapore
- 2008: Alive ... in Tokyo
- 2008: Kamikaze Metal Attack Over Finland (DVD)
Split
- 1995: Screaming for Grace / Abigail (with Funeral Winds )
- 2001: The Bulldozer Armageddon Volume 2 (together with Decayed )
- 2002: Live split with Witchburner
- 2002: Sexual Metal Holocaust (with Barbatos)
- 2003: Kamikaze Splitting Roar (together with Sabbat )
- 2003: Alcoholic Metal Blasphemers (together with Korihor)
- 2004: Evilized Japan (with Sigh )
- 2005: Outbreak of Evil Volume 2 (together with Villains , Midnight and Force of Darkness)
- 2005: Live in Germany 2004 / Hexenkreis (together with Front Beast)
- 2006: Satan's Revenge Live !!! (in cooperation with Barbatos and Cut Throat)
- 2006: Tribute to Acid (with Unholy Grave )
- 2006: Split together with Morbid Upheaval
- 2007: Apocalyptic Nightmare Continues (with Effigy)
- 2007: A Celtic / Japanese Alliance (together with Morrigan )
- 2007: Far East Necromancers (together with Fastkill )
- 2007: Street War Metal Kommand (together with Hate Kommand)
- 2007: Speed Metal Motherfuckers (with Vorkuta)
- 2008: Speed 'n' Spikes Volume 3 (together with Nekromantheon )
- 2008: Street Metal Alcoholocaust (with Barbatos)
- 2008: Holocaustic Metal Sexxxekution Whoreslaughters (together with Ironfist and Deiphago )
- 2008: Apocalyptic Necroholocaust (together with Evil Damn)
- 2008: The Eastern Desekratorz (with Mantak)
- 2013: Axis of Evil (with Akashah)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c V.ic V.icious: Far Eastern blasphemy . In: A-blaze , No. 2, November / December 2007, pp. 18f.
- ↑ Abigail “The Lord of Satan” Regular LP and Die Hard DLP Out Now ( Memento from November 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Abigail ( Memento of February 14, 2008 in the Internet Archive ).
- ↑ May 666: Interview with Abigail . (Spelling in the original)
- ↑ News ( Memento of July 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on August 20, 2013.