Ελληνικά
Last Updated on 03:55 PM by Giorgos Tsekas
Genre: Doom / Black metal
Country: Russia
Label: Cimmerian Shade Recordings
Year: 2015
A band from Russia. It always sounds interesting to me. A few decades ago, it was something that happened rarely and even though rare, some “diamonds” (bands) would jump out from time to time! Unfortunately playing such music in the ‘80s and ‘90s was not the easiest thing to do in this vast country…
Aeythyr are from Moscow, they’ve been around for about five years and this is their second album. The album starts very dynamically with “Nihil Grail”; a seven minute piece, slow as death, with monolithic rhythms. The atmosphere that unfolds through the track is chilling while the vocals play a big role with those black metal (and not only) colorations that highlight the song and add an extra howl of anguish and pain. Beautiful melodies emerge slowly throughout the album, especially in this first song which ends with an ethereal (hence the name of the band) very melancholic lead, with a blast beat and guitar melodies that drift you and carry you around…
“Sanctus Satanicus” follows the same path with the first track, with a very heavy doom-ish intro, that personally reminded me a little bit of Candlemass. This song unfolds its own melodic story, with some fast passages alternating with doom rhythms and blast beats that form a perfect “recipe” that the band has created. “Aru” lured me into its intoxicating, melancholic vortex and left me to hover in a vacuum with its slow tempo parts in the middle section of this 10-minute dark saga of melodic despair.
“Cult”, for which there is also a video clip, is another awesome track from disk. Although shorter in length, it still reaches 5:30! “The Gnostic Mass”, is like an “interlude” in the middle of the album, clearly with more drone paths with its “abnormal” and “disturbing”-somehow aesthetics. The last two tracks are “Corpus” and “Templum”. The first has a seven-minute instrumental “intro” before we can hear the signer. Slow and unbearable (in a good way). Deadly and abysmal. The second one, perhaps the most melodic track of the album, moves in the same style of course with the previous ones and completes this beautiful release.
There are many strange alternations in rhythms in the music but very intelligently placed. The black metal elements are everywhere, although this is mostly a doom band. Maybe this generally helps the occult atmosphere that emerges from the pot with this elixir that these four magicians from Moscow are cooking.The sound is very good with natural drums, heavy and noisy guitars, a very heavy bass and a voice that haunts you. The very good production also helps to bring out the potential of this band. A very nice album accompanied by a very nice lay out from Rotten Fantom and a digi pack packaging. I believe that 2015 starts out with a very promising release from a very promising band!
5/6
