Astralborne - Across The Aeons

It's nothing new and the beginning was pretty boring. It got a bit better and I think it's not all that bad release in the end. Funny how I liked song December Flower the most and it turns out to be In Flames cover

Their first album on the first listen I couldn't get into the vocals. I felt like they weren't suited for melodeath. It sounded like it should be on a more traditional sounding death metal album or even death doom. But I started to like it more the more spins I gave it. Now with this album I forgot all about that and this album kinda blew my socks off. These guys could be special if they keep making this kind of progression with each record.

This is a very impressive melodeath album, The vocals take some getting used to, but the music is great, has some terrific melodies.

Like this over the new in flames

Written by AndyMetalFreak on 30.07.2023 at 07:56

This is a very impressive melodeath album, The vocals take some getting used to, but the music is great, has some terrific melodies.

Sadly there is absolutely nothing here that we haven't heard a million times before. I don't find it interesting enough to invest my time in it even though the music actually is really good.

I thought this had gone from sounding 'quite a bit like early In Flames' to 'sounding eerily similar to early In Flames', before twigging that it was in fact a cover. Good album, although a bit overlong for a fairly generic album for the style

Very solid melodic death metal. But the vocals take a couple of spins gettin’ used to


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