Abigail Williams - Becoming (2012)

The new album goes even further into early kvlt black metal than was heard on “In the Absence of Light,” burying the fuzzy screeched vocals underneath the other instruments. Abigail Williams seems to be going backwards through time and retracing the steps of metal evolution. The band started out originally with a deathcore sound, switching next to a very aggressive U.S. symphonic black metal for “In the Shadow of a Thousand Suns,” moving backwards into a European melodic black metal style on “In The Absence of Light,” and now ending up even further back into old school black metal.