After the Candlelight Records debut ‘Black Blood’ masked purveyors of mayhem and Black Metal trailblazers Abduction return with their brand-new album ‘Existentialismus’ on February 21st 2025. The record arguably the band’s most electrifying emotionally complex and personal recording to date is inspired by the juxtaposition of a post-truth era against the simpler truths of ancient religions and crumbling past the observations of the modern world.
After an incredibly prolific recording run that saw a trilogy of albums released from 2017 to 2019 2022’s explosive Black Blood the band’s first album for the revered label Candlelight Records proved an undeniable milestone for the band.
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Abduction are of the UK’s most visible black metal acts on the live circuit bringing their ritualistic and immersive performances to audiences at Damnation Bloodstock Incineration Fortress Doomsday Mass Destruction Samhain Reaperfest and Eradication. The band will be supporting New Zealand Death Metal trio Ulcerate in Germany as well as their own headline UK tour this October.
Existentialismus has been recorded for the first time as a full band. That sense of scale is palpable and reflects the ambition and embittered grandeur of the new material an impressively cohesive combination of otherworldly atmospheres fiery aggression and apocalyptic tension.
The album written by A|V 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) at Necromorbus Studios in Sweden. The striking and immersive cover art is the work of Julia Soboleva.
“The most obvious expansion is in the voice,” considers vocalist and founder A|V. “I felt that vocally, I had more freedom to express the lyrics and messages with fewer genre leashes. Given the themes of pain, frustration, and fear involved, it made sense to convey that in its most natural state rather than performing to certain expectations. The vocals and lyrics are important to me, so I let them breathe and counterpoint the bands playing.”
“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?”
