Grandeur – Aurea Aetas
This is fist pumping, sing-along, blackened melodic crust.
This is fist pumping, sing-along, blackened melodic crust.
Taking full advantage of the strengths offered by each member, the band have spawned a dark, bombastic creation, rich with feeling, and full of twists and turns.
Raise your glass of whisky or beer to the full moon as the Norwegian Cowboys from Hell finally defile us with their and music.
Changing tempos and shifting time signatures, combines with a variety of vocal approaches and riffing, present a swirling vortex of chaotic prog darkness.
‘System I’ doesn’t waste any time to turn the gravity up to a crushing atmosphere right when you press play.
It’s the type of album that can be hard to write about objectively, because it’s really more about how it grabs me and about how it makes me feel, than it is about particular riffs, rhythms, or anything else.
They are a raging alarm call of black metal might, in which Wrath shows himself to be at the height of his powers, even after all of these years and all of these releases.
This demo is a truly excellent example of creating meaning and emotion within objectively difficult music.
Those with open minds and chaos in their hearts will rejoice.
The album is sometimes spastic, and rarely sits still long, even in the slower parts. And yet it all flows so well together.