Norwegian band LIMBONIC ART are one of the veteran players in the Norwegian metal scene, next year will mark their 25th anniversary as a matter of fact. A somewhat troubled past have lead the band to become a one man entity though, Vidar Jensen has been the sole member of the band for the past decade or thereabouts. “Spectre Abysm” was released in the summer of 2017 through UK label Candelight Records, and is the band’s 8th studio album.
The vocals are dark, performed in a manner that is supposed to sound evil I guess. Growls, croaks and shouts, occasional passages of spoken words, a few instances of layered vocals too, but all of them with that twisted dark intonation one expects from a black metal band. This is backed by busy, buzzsawing guitars fluctuating in patterns, more often circular than not, creating more of a hard and firm sound than a heavy sound as such. The drums are frantic and perhaps a bit too one-dimensional with their machine gun and machine-like pounding prese