Aeternus are a band from Norway that has been around since 1993 and plays a dark mixture of black, doom and death metal and this is a review of their 2006 album "HeXaeon" which will be re-issued in June on vinyl by Witching Hour Productions.
A very distorted sound starts off the album before going into a very fast and melodic direction which also uses a great amount of blast beats. Vocals are mostly death metal growls while the music also mixes in a great amount of black metal elements and clean playing can also be heard in certain sections of the recording.
At times the music also has its atmospheric moments while all of the musical instruments have a very powerful sound to them. Spoken word parts can also be heard briefly, Some of the riffing also shows a touch of groove metal which was never utilized on their older material along with one song also introducing clean vocals onto the album.
When screams and grim spoken word parts are utilized they also the songs more of a blackened edge when they are utilized. Throughout the recording you can also hear a decent mixture of slow, mid paced and fast parts as well as some doom metal elements being added into the slower sections of the songs. The production sounds very professional while the lyrics cover darkness and anti religion themes.
In my opinion this was a decent sounding recording from Aeternus and while I preferred their earlier material which was more creative and innovative as well as being different from what was going on in Norway at the time but if you are a fan of blackened death metal, you should check out this re-issue. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "The Darkest Of Minds" "In The 3rd Dwells Oblivion" "Ageless Void" and "What I Crave". 7/5 out of 10.
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