I tend to believe that in this style, time is your friend: a long reflection is a necessity before producing a new opus. Eventually, it has taken less than two years for the French band of
Aabsinthe to give birth to a promising continuation to The
Loss of
Illusion. After having ‘lost its illusions’, the band is now ‘searching for light’. After listening to this album, they have obviously succeeded.
If The
Loss of
Illusion allowed the band to gain a well-deserved notoriety, In
Search For Light should logically push it on the road outside of our frontiers. A little like with the new
Eths, the band went beyond its limits will still respecting its style. Whatever weakness they had is now transformed into a new strength.
More aggressive, more audible and more engaging, the album galvanizes a music both dark and progressive. So being, Pierre gives everything in this new opus and that’s great.
If this evolution is notable, the other parts of the composition are also very good. The arrangements are excellent as usual with a keyboard that merges in this both heavy and petrifying music. I think it is this pernicious aspect that has caught me the most. Each note of keyword is more chilling than the previous one. All the different arrangements are very sharp and engaging too. I let you judge by yourself: you won’t be bored even a second while listening to the 19-minute title “A Long Walk To Touch The Sun”.
That definitely proves how great the composition is.
Apart from the keyboards, one will also find a great deal of guitars. 2007 obliging, the rhythmics are heavy. Heavier, more powerful, they are so boosted that they will strike more than one of you.
Aabsinthe, a band with weak rhythmically speaking? I really doubt it… Especially that the very groovy lines of bass help increasing the heavy feeling delivered by the guitar.
And here is again a French killing album for this year 2007. This second opus of
Aabsinthe is going to bring noise in our little houses of metal-maniacs.
That proves that, us, the Frenchmen, we can practice any kind of style as well (or even better) than the others…
Translated By Heavyboy
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