AENAON
'Cendres
et Sang'
(Code
666)
Greece
has to exhibit many interesting and notable metal and especially
black metal bands. Aenaon
is one of these bands, that succeeded in surprising us with is debut
full-length album 'Cendres et Sang'.
Even from the first song, the jazz elements make the album special,
while the saxophone continues to travel our emotions and imagination,
as along with the percussion make the jazz / metal fusion in the
second song, before one realizes that it is about a melodic black
metal song, with some death metal vocals. The jazzy sound reminds of
Den Saakaldte,
while the influences of Shining
and Satyricon
are obvious. Varying between jazz, melody, black metal and metalcore,
the band wouldn't bore you at all. The frequent changes in the
tempo, the flawless passage from brutal death/black metal vocals into
clean vocals, the progressive percussions along with the metalcore
riffs of the attacking guitars and the avantgarde black metal
elements compose a unique sound, which is excellent in terms of
compositions and aesthetics. The big surprise was the impressive last
song of the album, "In Heaven", where the piano at the
intro followed by female choir vocals ends up to a mix of emotion,
black metal vocals and melodic solos, being atmospheric, melodic and
aggressive at the same time. It should be mentioned that this song is
a cover of the Eraserhead’s soundtrack by David Lynch. The outro
that Aenaon
decided to use could not be other, in order to close a cycle of
melody, suffocation, atmosphere, rage and emotion, expressed via the
dark and melancholic lyrics of an inner soul. The production is very
good, where the recordings took place in over five studios. In
overall, the album is very good and proposed to those who like
listening to non-conforming and non-traditional metal bands from the
black metal scene, those not afraid to experiment with their sound.
[8,5]
(Dark
Alice's nightingale)
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