{"id":1794,"date":"2016-03-31T00:55:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-31T00:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/?p=1794"},"modified":"2024-04-15T00:56:12","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T00:56:12","slug":"eight-gigs-absu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/?p=1794","title":{"rendered":"Eight Gigs: Absu"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Thu., Apr. 7, Starlite Lounge, 8 p.m., $15<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsreview.com\/media\/images\/articles\/featured\/2020\/07\/20493406-01.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Dallas occult metal outfit Absu started charting its course to hell over 25 years ago and have since set the bar for black and thrash metal. Once relegated to the underground, drummer-singer Proscriptor, a.k.a. Russley Randall Givens (the trio\u2019s only original member) and a glorious cast of characters have become one of the most ferocious headlining acts on the scene. Its latest release,\u00a0<em>Abzu,<\/em>\u00a0is arguably the best yet, though it should only take one listen to \u201cShe Cries The Quiet Lake\u201d from the group\u2019s 2001 album\u00a0<em>Tara<\/em>\u00a0to realize there really is no faster act on land or sea.\u00a0<em>1517 21st Street,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/absu.bandzoogle.com\/\">http:\/\/absu.bandzoogle.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(SN&amp;R)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thu., Apr. 7, Starlite Lounge, 8 p.m., $15 Dallas occult metal outfit Absu started charting its course to hell over 25 years ago and have since set the bar for black and thrash metal. Once relegated to the underground, drummer-singer Proscriptor, a.k.a. Russley Randall Givens (the trio\u2019s only original member) and a glorious cast of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1795,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794\/revisions\/1795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}