ABDUCTION Release New Single "Blau ist die Farbe der Ewigkeit" + Video!

UK extreme metal collective ABDUCTION has released a new single, "Blau ist die Farbe der Ewigkeit," from their forthcoming album, 'Existentialismus,' set to be released on February 21, 2025 via Candlelight.

The new track is a harrowing exploration of the band's signature sound, a masterful amalgamation of otherworldly atmospheres, searing aggression, and apocalyptic tension. "Blau ist die Farbe der Ewigkeit" offers a chilling, yet cohesive glimpse into the bleak, introspective universe the band continues to craft, drawing their listeners into a sonic abyss that is as unforgiving as it is captivating.

With 'Existentialismus,' ABDUCTION continues to push the boundaries of extreme metal, their sound a fierce embodiment of nihilistic intensity. And as the album's release date draws near, "Blau ist die Farbe der Ewigkeit" serves as a potent warning of the darkness yet to come.

Comments vocalist A|V:

"The city swine are feasting, eyes fixated on all that is surplus, transitory, and inane. 

"All at once was the flood. 

"Unwilling rats, unknowing of their stench.

"Spiralling towards the sewer... 

"Perfect." 

Watch the Video for "Blau ist die Farbe der Ewigkeit" Below:

Listen to "Blau ist die Farbe der Ewigkeit" HERE

Following their 2022 album, 'Black Blood,' which showcased the band's fiercely expansive sound, ABDUCTION is now poised to push their musical boundaries even further. With many bands currently paying homage to black metal’s glory years and just as many attempting to connect unrelated workings to that legacy, ABDUCTION’s music manages to be both recognizably authentic and imbued with its own spirit. And never has this been truer than in the new album, 'Existentialismus.'

The band will also be hitting the road for a series of exclusive live dates in March, bringing the intensity of 'Existentialismus' to the stage in support of the album's release.

Pre-Order 'Existentialismus' HERE

Having become one of the UK’s most visible black metal acts on the live circuit, bringing their ritualistic and immersive performances to audiences at club shows and festivals such as Damnation, Bloodstock, Incineration, Fortress, Mass Destruction, Samhain, Reaperfest, and Eradication, 'Existentialismus' has been recorded, for the first time, as a full band.

“It’s inspired by the juxtaposition of this horrible post-truth era with its contradictions and the simple, metaphorical truths that began in ancient religions of the crumbling past. Somewhere between a biblical gospel and a Nietzschean nightmare. As a father, there’s a particular terror in seeing all that our grandfathers built, physically and morally, being torn apart and reduced to a commodity and wondering what kind of world my son will inherit.”

“I am by no means a philosopher – I desperately lack the patience,” A|V admits. “But my observations of the modern Western humane race have become particularly bleak, and this informs my lyrical writing process. Art as a reaction to life and experience. This is laid out in the first track, ‘A Legacy of Sores’, which posits that most of us here, in the current year, have become an alarming pairing of being both too sensitive and yet without any core beliefs to stand on. (‘Wet skin now paper thin, reveals a core of dust’) I think this is a mixture of a post-religious society and the acceleration of technology to the point at which its claws are deeply in us. Have you tried to live without a smartphone recently?”

'Existentialismus' was recorded and produced by Ian Boult at Stuck On A Name Studios in Nottingham, while the final touches of post-production and mastering were handled by Tore Stjerna (Watain, Mayhem, Deströyer 666) at Necromorbus Studios in Sweden. The striking and immersive cover art is the work of Julia Soboleva.

ABDUCTION Release Immersive New Single "Razors of Occam" + Music Video

UK extreme metallers ABDUCTION have released their immersive second single, "Razors of Occam", a gripping prelude to the forthcoming album, 'Existentialismus,' due for release on February 21, 2025, via Candlelight. The track serves as a visceral glimpse into the band’s otherworldly, introspective universe, while its haunting video, directed by Jake Kindred, draws viewers deep into the emotional abyss of ABDUCTION's world. 

"'Razors of Occam' is a celebration of the back-breaking labour that our grandfathers and grandmothers endured over the past century to build the houses and systems that maintain our (relative) safety and comfort here in the west', comments vocalist A|V. '"There's more honour in the last gasping breath, spilled forth from a dying old man's chest, than in all the seas of all the tears the younger can conjure. For with one wish, they'd give it all away."

Following their explosive 2022 album, 'Black Blood,' which showcased the band's fiercely expansive sound, ABDUCTION is now poised to push their musical boundaries even further. With many bands currently paying homage to black metal’s glory years and just as many attempting to connect unrelated workings to that legacy, ABDUCTION’s music manages to be both recognizably authentic and imbued with its spirit. And never has this been truer than in the new album, 'Existentialismus'.

Watch the Video for "Razors of Occam"

Having become one of the UK’s most visible black metal acts on the live circuit, bringing their ritualistic and immersive performances to audiences at club shows and festivals such as Damnation, Bloodstock, Incineration, Fortress, Mass Destruction, Samhain, Reaperfest, and Eradication, 'Existentialismus' has been recorded, for the first time, as a full band.

“It’s inspired by the juxtaposition of this horrible post-truth era with its contradictions and the simple, metaphorical truths that began in ancient religions of the crumbling past. Somewhere between a biblical gospel and a Nietzschean nightmare. As a father, there’s a particular terror in seeing all that our grandfathers built, physically and morally, being torn apart and reduced to a commodity and wondering what kind of world my son will inherit.”

“I am by no means a philosopher – I desperately lack the patience,” A|V admits. “But my observations of the modern Western humane race have become particularly bleak, and this informs my lyrical writing process. Art as a reaction to life and experience. This is laid out in the first track, ‘A Legacy of Sores’, which posits that most of us here, in the current year, have become an alarming pairing of being both too sensitive and yet without any core beliefs to stand on. (‘Wet skin now paper thin, reveals a core of dust’) I think this is a mixture of a post-religious society and the acceleration of technology to the point at which its claws are deeply in us. Have you tried to live without a smartphone recently?”

'Existentialismus' was recorded and produced by Ian Boult at Stuck On A Name Studios in Nottingham, while the final touches of post-production and mastering were handled by Tore Stjerna (Watain, Mayhem, Deströyer 666) at Necromorbus Studios in Sweden. The striking and immersive cover art is the work of Julia Soboleva.

Pre-Order 'Existentialismus' HERE

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NEW ALBUM 'BLACK BLOOD' OUT OCTOBER 21!

Black metallers Abduction have released the video for the snarling new single "A Psylacybic Death", featuring Revenant Marquis.

"A Psylacybic Death" is the second visceral single to be released from Abduction's new album, 'Black Blood', which is set for release on October 21 via Candlelight Records.

Pre-order the album HERE

Abduction state, "'A Psylacybic Death" speaks, obtusely, of wisdom lost through time. The song entails a drug-induced death ritual inspired by the Eleusinian Mysteries whereby the subject hallucinates and is visited by creatures of the cosmic realm, before dissolving from tangible terra firma into the ether. The illusive RM of Revenant Marquis performed a particularly heinous ritual across this track, at my request. I am very pleased to have collaborated with him. 'I wish no ill, but all to death."

Formed in 2016 as a shadowy, single-man entity, Abduction have made astonishingly fast progress, carving a fearsome reputation for themselves as a standout act in an increasingly crowded extreme metal scene.

Performing alone in the early years — a rare sight, despite the many one-man bands in the genre – Abduction's central protagonist A|V then expanded the band into a full live outfit, to better create intense, ritualistic and immersive performances, both at underground shows and larger festivals.

The forthcoming release of 'Black Blood' sees Abduction's most ambitious and rewarding album to date. Recorded ­— like its predecessor, 2019's 'All Pain as Penance'— by Ian Boult at Stuck on a Name Studios in Nottingham, this nightmarish yet entrancing listen pushes Abduction into new territories without straying from their core sound.

From the hypnotically earnest and haunting opener "In Exaltation of the Supreme Being", to the expansive 11-minute epic "Plutonian Gate", with its marked progressive and psychedelic overtones, to the blend of uncompromising, stripped-down black metal and slower, almost post-metal textures of "A Psylacybic Death", it is an intense and dynamic experience.

Black Blood draws both from the band's roots and new inspirations. The fact that members of British black metal bands The Sun's Journey Through the Night and Revenant Marquis appear is a welcome nod to where Abduction come from, yet the fact that the band are atypical for a UKBM act ­— no rousing odes to England or '90s Scandinavian formulas here ­– is perhaps their most precious attribute. Their distinctive qualities have also earnt them a place on the roster of one of extreme metal's most famous labels — Candlelight Records — a definite milestone.

"Before this album was recorded, I knew I wanted to step things up a few notches in terms of taking this vision to a wider audience," A|V states. "Candlelight approached me — indirectly, as they didn't know who I was behind the mask — and offered a deal that more than meets where I want to take this project. Rather than continue to exist in the well-established sphere I've grown comfortable in, I decided that now is the time to take a leap into the unknown. Much like the narratives of the songs, there is both trepidation and elation. Time will be the judge…"