The premiere comes on the eve of the EP’s release, Friday, July 26th via Hypaethral Records.
Forged in 2013, ABSORB — Jeff Luckel (lead guitar), David Eckmeier (rhythm guitar), Jason Luckel (bass), and Aaron Barthe (drums) — set out to cultivate a sound that was slow, dissonant, and quakingly heavy. After cycling through a number of vocalists, the final piece of the puzzle fell into place with the addition of vocalist Erik Thorkildsen in 2022. Since then, ABSORB has found its true sound, a perfect fit with Thorkildsen’s dominating vocal delivery.
Following the band’s 2023’s Rot EP, Smog marks a profound evolution for the band, embracing denser, more atmospheric compositions, that add new layers of depth to their monolithically heavy sound. ABSORB's music is a full-body visceral encounter, drawing from influences such as Primitive Man, Thou, and Cough yet forging a sound that leaves listeners stunned. A three-track, twenty-five-minute aural assault, Smog is the next chapter in the band's inexorable voyage to push their music beyond the limitations of death and doom.
Writes Everything Is Noise in part, “From the magnificently sundering cover to the pummelfuck of the instrumentation on this EP’s twenty-five minutes, there’s not really a safe place to turn when ABSORB are involved. Things are dangerous yet alluring – Smog occupies that morbid curiosity space where you feel compelled to seek out and engage with something that you shouldn’t. From the eruptive first song to the cataclysmic finale, this is a chubby project, rife with scalping riffs, neck-stomping drumming, and acidic vocals.”
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