Label: Vendetta Records
Genre: Black Metal / Atmospheric Black Metal
Format: Vinyl / CD / Cassette
Translation note:
“In Blut” is German for “In Blood”, emphasizing sacrifice, violence, and irreversible emotional commitment — a phrase often used to convey acts sealed through suffering.
Description:
In Blut (“In Blood”) is a bleak and emotionally suffocating release from Abkehr, where black metal becomes an outlet for despair, inner collapse, and psychological violence. The album is deeply personal in tone, presenting suffering not as spectacle, but as lived experience rendered in sound.
Waves of anguished tremolo riffs surge through dense, immersive atmosphere, driven by relentless drumming and tormented vocals that feel bled out rather than performed. Abkehr expertly balance raw aggression with expansive melancholic passages, creating a constant tension between overwhelming force and emotional vulnerability. The production is heavy and enveloping, amplifying the record’s sense of inevitability and suffocation.
Rather than glorifying brutality, In Blut treats blood as consequence — pain endured rather than escaped. It is an album that leaves emotional residue, lingering long after silence returns.