Peter Kubik, founding guitarist of the Austrian black metallic band Abigor, has died on the age of 49.
The band shared the unhappy information on its official Fb web page, stating that Kubik “walked by way of the gate by his personal hand, by way of his personal will.”
The total submit reads:
“PK 1975 – 2024
immortal in his legacy – blood (household), soil (dwelling) and monuments of Black Steel artwork.
walked by way of the gate by his personal hand, by way of his personal will.
(photograph beneath Could 1995 through the recording of Nachthymnen. extra following through the subsequent days. preserve your respectful distance to the bereaved for now!)”
Kubik co-founded Abigor in 1993 alongside drummer-guitarist Thomas Tannenberger and remained the group’s sole constant member till his passing. Total, the band has launched 13 albums, most not too long ago 2023’s Taphonomia Aeternitatis – Gesänge im Leichenlicht der Welt.
Among the many most revered of the second-wave black metallic bands, Abigor launched their first album, Verwüstung / Invoke the Darkish Age, in 1993 by way of Napalm Information. Each the debut and its follow-up, 1995’s Nachthymnen (From the Twilight Kingdom), helped set up the band — and Napalm Information — amongst black metallic circles, and every is taken into account a basic of the style’s early ’90s type.
Helmed by Kubik, Abigor took a extra experimental/progressive strategy on their following albums, with Tannenberger leaving the group in 1999 earlier than returning in 2006. The aforementioned 2023 LP, Taphonomia Aeternitatis – Gesänge im Leichenlicht der Welt, garnered vital acclaim upon its launch, with followers inserting it among the many band’s most interesting efforts.
Beneath you possibly can see Abigor’s Fb submit and take a look at a few of the music Kubik created with Abigor.