ABSUM

NOTE: This page is for a drone / metal band from Italy. Not to be confused with various other bands also named Absum! Myspace, ever the catastrophic failure, even mistakenly auto-added [this unrelated electronic band]'s song to Absum's page.

BAND NAME: Absum
GENRE: Black / Funeral Doom / Drone Metal / Ambient
STATUS: Unknown
LOCATION: Italy (Lodi, Lombardia)

Christian in its very early days.[1]
As far as I'm aware, all releases after 2008 are secular, but I'm not totally sure.

All of the words in Absum's album and song titles are Italian, written backwards. Only the words themselves are backwards, not entire phrases. (For example, "led oicsnocbus" is "del subconscio", not "subconscio del".)

Apparently [had merch for sale] on Holy Night Clothing, but it's worth noting that that brand also worked with a few secular bands. (Shadowolf is one example.)

The word "absum" is Latin and means something like "to be absent from", "to be away / distant", etc.

Lineup:
Azazel - All instruments, Vocals

Links:
Myspace
Myspace @ archive.org

 Discography:

Eznerapsart led oicsnocbus onamu (album, 9 February, 2008, DarkEyes Collective)
Format: CD

Both of the artworks are found online. I'm not currently sure why.

As stated above, everything is written backwards.
Album title:
"Trasparenze del subconscio umano" = "Transparencies of the Human Subconscious"
Track titles:
1) "Cristallo di solitudine" = "Crystal of Solitude"
2) "Odio irremovibile" = "Adamant Hatred"
3) "Eclissi di suicidio" = "Suicide Eclipse"
4) "Nel buio dei miei giorni" = "In the Darkness of My Days"

1) Ollatsric id enidutilos 15:05
2) Oido elibivomerri 12:56
3) Issilce id oidicius 24:00
4) Len oiub led ieim inroig 15:44

Art itinifni isrevinu ilellarap (box set, 10 August, 2013, DarkEyes Collective)
Format: 4x CD (in DVD case)

Full-discography compilation / re-release.
Of course, contains both Christian and secular music.

CD1 - Eznerapsart led oicsnocbus onamu 1:07:45
CD2 - Odnadraug ertlo el eznerappa 1:11:36
CD3 - Li onger onrevni'd 1:13:18
CD4 - Enoisnemid avitagen 30:25

 

 

 

== Not sure if Christian ==
- Odnadraug ertlo el eznerappa, album, 2009
- Enoisnemid Avitagen, EP, 2011

== Confirmed not Christian ==
- Li onger onrevni'd, (album), 2010

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INFO:
1) Lyrics? 2) Are those other two releases Christian or not? 3) Why are there two artwork variants for "Eznerapsart"?
IMAGES:
Every image here could use a larger and/or higher quality version.

Miscellaneous stuff: Alternate pictures + alternate version of the logo I found online

 

Similar to: [SECULAR] Wormphlegm, Deep-pression, 厄鬼, Heirdrain, Breath of Chaos, Merkithaasikha, [CHRISTIAN] Ad Gloriam, Within the Torn Apart, Through the Valley, (add more later)