Absurd – Kyffhäuserreich (2024)

January 16, 2025

Far better than the previous AI-cover release that came out earlier this year. Correct me if I’m wrong but I believe a lot of these are old songs written by an ex-member that have been re-imagined for this modern release? Forgive me if that’s incorrect but keeping up with the twists and turns of this band is pretty difficult.

Production is fairly homogenous but there are moments of brilliance underneath it. Generally though, Kyffhauserreich is good but lacks stand-out songs despite brushes with excellence with individual riffs or passages.

JFN’s incarnation of Absurd is currently doing far more interesting (and original) music than this verison of the band; that’s just the reality of the situation.