Abysmal Rage have signed to Wormholedeath, and the first album, A House No One Could Live In, has been out since 6 November. The title track now has a video.
The project belongs to Aimeric Lerat, who works as Hangsvart and is better known for Abysmal Growls Of Despair, a funeral doom outfit with a catalogue most people lose count of. Where that one goes slow and ritual, this one does not: eight string guitars, five string bass, nine songs, and nothing on the record that sounds polished for the sake of it.
The artwork and the words come from Ophidia XIII, who puts autobiography next to darker metaphor rather than keeping them apart.
A second album is already in production, built around Hangsvart's animist beliefs. Signing a label six days after releasing your own debut is the wrong way round on paper, and makes more sense when the man has been releasing records without one for a decade.