Ridiculous, right? Especially on Absu’s two most recent albums, though, the music is a high-flying, high-energy circus, its mix of strangely giddy black metal and thrash played at ...

Dallas' famed black metal band Absu is now called Apsu. Former member, guitarist Melissa Moore, says she was fired for being transgender. Black Metal Band Absu Is Now Apsu, Trans Guitarist Melissa ...

Most of you know me from my time as Vis Crom of Absu, even though I probably didn’t look like a Melissa then. I am a transgender woman. If you live in the USA I ask all true heavy metal brothers ...

Texas black metal band Absu have announced their break-up after 30 years. Lead vocalist and drummer Proscriptor McGovern posted the news to the band’s Facebook: After meager deliberation and ...

Most of you know me from my time as Vis Crom of Absu, even though I probably didn’t look like a Melissa then. I am a transgender woman. If you live in the USA I ask all true heavy metal brothers ...

Texas black metal outfit Absu — whose new press copy totes them as a “mythological occult trio” (I love it) — don’t tour very often. The last time they toured America was in 2013, except for a few ...

One of the more unique live metal acts, the Absu mainman employs a relentless drumming style while managing to hold things down as the vocalist, delivering his signature raspy vocals and shrieks ...

Former Absu guitarist Melissa Moore has publicly claimed that she was ousted from the metal band after coming out as transgender. Moore also claims Absu drummer/vocalist Proscriptor McGovern (Russ R.

I know absolutely nothing about Black Metal band Absu except that when I first heard their brand new song ‘Hall of Masters’, which is featured as a part of the Adult Swim’s Singles Program ...

Former Absu guitarist Melissa Moore (also of Rumpelstiltskin Grinder and Sonja) has continued to share details about her ouster from the band in 2017 following her decision to come out as transgender.

Arguably, more occult than historical in nature, Absu's style was sometimes referred to as "mythological occult metal." Formed in 1991, in Texas of all places, the band's unrefined black metal ...