Absurd "Facta Loquuntur" CD (Bonustracks)

Tracks 9 to 15 are additional tracks for this reissue. Year "2016" written in back cover.

Hammer Of Damnation version. This edition of "Facta Lonquuntur" features completely new layout and never before published statement written by The Horde Absurd in July, 2010.
Also features 7 bonus songs, some of them taken from a live concert of IN KETTEN (the camouflage for Absurd at that time) in the state prison of JVA Ichtershausen, in June 1995.

Album was banned by German authorities in February 2009.
Wolf Möbus contributed the track 'First Winter of Blood Red Snow', originally a Wolsburg song.

This is one of my most commonly listened albums. Many people out there take Absurd's old material as a joke, but they clearly don't understand its merit. This is seriously raw black metal/punk, and not only that, it has a great deal of substance.
The guitar sound has a dull analog tone with harsh scratchy distortion. Often the chords are struck so hard other strings ring out and create off-key noises. The musicianship here is amateur for sure, but this only adds to its excellent simplicity. You can expect little more than power chords and other simple formations. Either simple up and down or all down-stroked, and overallvery punky stroking patterns are used. The solos are entirely basic, and with only one guitar, the bass maintains the rhythm behind a buzzing and crunching harsh higher array of sounds. Most often the solos consist of a very easy set of single notes. The bass is dull and dead sounding, almost always audible and plunking with punky lines in the background. Occasionally the bass takes more interesting roles playing an alternate melody to the guitar's rhtyhm. The drums are almost always mid-paced using alternating patterns of single kick and snare, often using hard crashes, and always sounding very flat. Rather than using d-beat style drums, it is more like the funky patterns used in Belketre's "The Dark Promise". The vocals are great, no doubt about it. They are either harsh yells and screams or clean vocals with a particularly bad singing voice that really grows on you. The overall structure of the songs is either punkish with black metal overtones or more drawn out, depressive and dull.
This album has been a favourite of mine for a long time. Although its description may sound like punk deemed black metal for its production with unserious musicians, it is most certainly more than that. For all those idiot skeptics and internet bashers, fuck off.

Sample: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...