Origin : Japan
Genre : Atmospheric Black Metal
Release : 2012
Album Info / Review
**Album:** *Abigail Williams – Becoming*
**Release:** 2023 (Studio)
**Genre:** Melodic Black‑Metal, Atmospheric Doom
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## 1. Soundscape & Atmosphere
*Becoming* starts with a subtle, almost murmuring ambience that thins into a full‑blown whirlwind within the first few seconds. The opening track, **“Ghostly Dawn,”** leans heavily into ethereal keyboards and dissonant tremolo-picked guitars, building a cold, cavernous sense that feels like a misty, pre‑flood night. The track’s layers are carefully spaced; the synth pad sits behind the guitars, never quite overwhelming them, instead giving the track an echoic quality that sounds simultaneously haunting and vast.
Once the drums tear in (the trigger on the snare is crisp, the hi‑hats shimmering), the album swings into a darker, more aggressive mode. Yet, even the most ferocious breakouts are never raw to the point of feeling unpolished; the track **“Radiant VI”** balances an overdrive crunch with a trace of reverberation that makes the power chords feel like they’re ringing off a cathedral wall. Each song leaves a particular impression, whether it’s the powdery breakups in **“Echoes of Lost Time”** or the eerie, barely audible harps in **“Veil of Night.”**
There’s a very clear pastoral undercurrent simmering beneath the entire record—soft, almost folk‑like leads, woven through with harmonics that pull across both audio extremes. The overall atmosphere feels like a journey through a haunted forest or an abandoned manor: your senses are pulled into the inside of a texture that slowly deepens until you can’t tell where the music stops and the silence begins.
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## 2. Riffing & Guitar Work
All of Abigail Williams’ guitars show a mixture of high‑speed black‑metal tremolo picked lobes and slow, heaviness-steep doom bender. Probably the most striking riffing comes from the opening track, which is jam-packed with jagged, semi‑melodic intervals that utilise both neoclassical lifts and harsh, aggressive chords—an indicator of the band’s current transition toward a more complex melodic direction.
– **“Ghostly Dawn”**
Open trills begin at a raw 6‑O‑4 progression, providing a spontaneous atmosphere; the rhythm works like a grid. A hammer‑blow against the bass gives an instant drive.
– **“Dreamers’ Decay”**
Bye-and-bye bass quickly “sees” this track as less aggressive yet thematically energetic. The guitar lines hit ‘bim’ up then down again right near the 18th second of the track, teasing audiences that they’ll see if there is a modern arrangement. The main riff plays in succession until the track ends.
– **“Spin Me of Delight”**
This stands out as a pointwise example of a dramatic signature. It’s distinctive because the riff begins at a highly catalogue‑appropriate level. That then makes balance more diagnostic; the rest of the song isn’t particularly violent or too dither.
Each of the melodic elements is backed up by a difference in strings and : :The perfect mix of 3/4 and slow singing is offered.
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## 3. Production Quality
The production is meticulous: the drums are the most noticeable as they are often crisp, with a heavy and dynamic style that fade-out the background. The bass lines ditch their prominence compared to the rest of the instrumentation. It is also mute, with lots of an echo that is web-of text-like sections.
– **Microphones & Mixing**: The quality is elevated, with more custom EQ on guitars and a focus on making the high-frequency ‘wing-like” field crisp. The mixing strategy appears to be one that accentuates the bright sections with a crisp and flourishes.
– **Mastering**: The mastering of Becoming has been done with appropriate sound control. If any single track is looking problematic, we suggest a carefully measured spacing of drums, guitars, and vocals. Noticeably, the producer reworks most of the minor elements that unify all the tracks with a certain compositional translation. Inherently, the album’s listenable — the linear background of vocals looks to be at this speed (intensive)
– **Overall vibe**: The sound overall leans in the mid tact; a near-even balance exists between the posortically-stiff compositions and the traditional hardware while providing a greasy groove for everything.
### Summaries
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**Assessment**:
With a careful blend of atmospheric poise, relentless riffs, and surprisingly polished production, *Abigail Williams – Becoming* establishes itself as a formidable entry into both the melodic black‑metal and doom realm. It’s meant to linger, to entice new listeners and to give freight their signature a distinctive thread that could have matured into more.
