Abstract Spirit is a Moscowian three-piece with strong ties to Russian Doom Metal bands Twilight Is Mine and Comatose Vigil. Their first official hour of material presents itself as their debut “Liquid Dimensions Change”.

 

The music on that debut is in the same vein of that of Comatose Vigil, although the bombastic approach makes it more reminiscent of Finish Doom Metal masters Shape Of Despair. Since there is generally little use of pace variation in Doom/Death Metal and Funeral Doom, Abstract Spirit has sought to compensate this by adding some sludgy parts to the songs. Even more so, they’ve accomplished this by varying the range of the keyboard sounds from the “standard” atmospheric sound to organs and orchestral arrangements. Although the rhythm guitars could have probably been a bit beefier, there are also frequent melodic guitar solos that provide for an excellent enrichment of the song structures. Add a strong vocal delivery to the fold and you could definitely say that “Liquid Dimensions Change” turned out to be a solid effort. Some examples of what the album has to offer can be found in ‘Ruined’, that has a great solo near the end, while ‘Apostasy’ features a few excellent riffs to carry the song, and the final stretch of the title track is great. I wouldn’t necessarily say that they’ve bombarded themselves to a scene favorite right away, but Abstract Spirit show they have enough in their sound to attract the avid fans of the genre.