ABRAHAM // IDSUNGWÜSSÄ - CD

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ABRAHAM // IDSUNGWÜSSÄ - CD RELEASE DATE: 26th of September With four studio albums and European tours supporting Cult of Luna and The Ocean, ABRAHAM from Lausanne, Switzerland hav e forged their reputation as one of the leading post-metal bands in Europe. Their fifth studio album adds a third and final chapter to a series of concept albums of truly epic proportions — at the center of which lies a sprawling, apocalyptic portrayal of humanity’s downfall. Still grounded in the gritty atmosphere and philosophical weight of post-metal, sludge, and ambient noise, idsungwüssä sees ABRAHAM march even further into dissonant and defiant territory. “The three albums are clearly linked together thematically,” comments the band, “although rather than an additional chapter, idsungwüssä is more like a parallel narrative to Débris de mondes perdus. The latter was a jump in time after Look, Here Comes the Dark!, whereas idsungwüssä is a jump in space — a journey away from Earth. It should be the final piece of this little jolly ride.” This album isn’t just heavy — it’s absolutely drenched in delicious filth. And yet, by embracing melodic interludes and melancholic passages, ABRAHAM creates a devastating contrast to the wall of power coming from stacked guitars, catastrophic drums, and raging, sharp vocals — delivered in Swiss-German dialect. “The album was recorded between November 2024 and February 2025, all while handling our day jobs and during a period that was, on a personal level, not the easiest for some of us. It was only in the last two weeks of the recording process, right before sending it out to mixing, that it started to come together and feel like a coherent album — one we could be happy and proud about. For an album with change and transformation as underlying themes, this is sort of performative!” That urgency and duress bleeds into every track — an hour-long journey from the grim to the sublime, from melancholy to raw destruction. It evokes ruined civilisations and the last wails of fractured psyches. Yet at moments, it shifts into something less bleakly human — more ethereal — as if glimpsing beyond the constraints of flesh and death. “We got rid of a lot of things that tied us to the past. We were also finally able to give a proper place to one of our most beloved pieces of gear: a Farfisa Louvre organ that’s been with us for fifteen years. This time, we wanted to use keyboards properly again. The Farfisa can be heard here or there on past records, but now it’s used for actual parts rather than quirky cameos — for instance, the intro of Naked in a Naked Sky was played on this Farfisa Louvre and a CRB Diamond 701. There’s a lot of Farfisa on this record.” ABRAHAM also collaborated with Kevin Galland (Coilguns), who recorded some Moog and piano parts — lending to those haunting contrasts that leave the listener adrift in hypnotic awe one moment, only to be smashed the next into dissident heavy madness. “Our approach to recording guitars was different this time. Instead of having one guitar on the left and one on the right playing different parts, we had both sides play the same part, with a third, center guitar playing something else. We just stacked more guitars whenever we needed. And oh, did we use a lot of reverb, too!” The structures and movements of the songs feel unique and fresh — balancing themes and emotions in ways that are both intoxicating and unsettling. It’s an immersive journey that rewards deep listening and challenges the boundaries of genre. In the heavy fervour, you feel as though the whole song could fly to pieces at any moment — balanced at the very threshold. “The main thing for us is to have something to hold on to. Previously, it had been texts — stories that we wrote before the music. This time, we started with drawings by Dave (drums, vocals). It was really different and proved somewhat of a challenge. When writing music, we tried to express what we felt the drawings should sound like — a sort of synesthesia. We spent a lot of time together writing first demos, then tore them apart and kept only what made sense. We pieced those parts into songs, arranged them until they felt complete. The contrast between heavy and melodic elements definitely comes from this process.” TRACKLIST: SIDE A 1. Fate of Man Lies in the Stars 2. I Am the Vessel and The Vessel Is Me SIDE B 3. A Discomposite Shell 4. Naked In a Naked Sky SIDE C 5. Suurwäut 6. En Tüüfus Tümpu SIDE D 7. 06.00.40U 8. Home Show more