Agrypnie - Aetas Cineris - review
Agrypnie - Aetas Cineris - review
Tracklist
01. Trümmer / Aetas Cineris02. Dezember
03. Gnōsis
04. Zurück
05. Kosmos (Alpha)
06. Erwachen
07. Sinnflut
08. Asche
A review by
Windrider July 06, 2013
The album blends a typical style-based atmosphere and quite unusual brutal sounds. And if I may start with a weak point here, the latter one is the dominating part. It's not that metal isn't supposed to be brutal but the production and the technical aspect of the album often interferes with the black metal structures and ends in an atmosphere one can also experience in death doom releases. Nevertheless, every music is mood music, and when you are in the right mood for this one, there won't be anything fitting better. Take the track "Sinnflut" as an example: If you feel like standing on a huge cliff during a storm, weary and hurt but still strong in will, this song makes perfect sense in both music and lyrics.
Aetas Cineris runs for seventy-seven minutes, which required an extra lengthy CD, anyone who knows a longer album on a single disc be welcome to tell me. The durations of the eight songs don't vary much, all running from eight to eleven and a half minutes. Sure, this is too long for some people, but if you are into it you can sit still and enjoy the album over the whole playing time. The opener "Trümmer / Aetas Cineris" is a really great start into this world and awesome when played live, too. Together with "Gnosis", it marks the heavy side of this record, while on the opposite "Kosmos (Alpha)" and "Asche" stand for atmospheric work only. The other four songs also lean more towards the heavy style. What Agrypnie do better than most other bands is thrilling. Der Unhold as vocalist ensures this with his quite unique singing and a bunch of modern poetic lyrics that reach the listener's mind and subconscious. His band mates as well play their music as good as one could expect, especially the bass works deserve credit, plus its sound might be the most fitting to black metal of all the instruments.
One can say Agrypnie are sitting on the fence here. Post black metal with rare black elements and atmosphere but nevertheless very good music. I know this style contains urban elements but bands should be careful not to go too far away from their roots. I couldn't pick my overall favourite song here for they are all good but when it comes to songwriting terms my choice is "Asche", showing the best melodies and riffs and - yes I say it again - atmosphere.
Rating breakdown
| Performance: | 9 |
| Songwriting: | 8 |
| Originality: | 8 |
| Production: | 8 |
Written by Windrider | July 06, 2013
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Ohhh I didn't know this was out. sounds good!
---- In the name of forests; In the name of stars; In the name of all the seas; In the name of storms... Proud sons of ancient nation; Proud sons of sacred song in the wind; Proud sons behind a mirror of ice who told... Fathers of the icy age!!
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Post black stuff seems to be the fad of the moment; Mine as well. This is a good example of the genre. Thanks for the review.
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As far as longer albums on a single disk the album Griseus by the band Aquilus (Atmo-Black) runs for 79 minutes and 55 seconds; supposedly the absolute maximum that can fit on a single disk.
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Posts: 9575 Written by Saiyanity on 08.07.2013 at 06:01 Well actually you can fit 80 minutes. I would have had 5 seconds of silence or something just to fill it in haha.
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Posts: 178 Written by Boxcar Willy on 08.07.2013 at 08:45 Same here, it would bug the fuck out of me knowing that it was that close.
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"...anyone who knows a longer album on a single disc be welcome to tell me." Load (Metallica) and Sagas (Equilibrium), for starters.
---- "I'm here to nunchuck and not wear helmets. And I'm all out of helmets." "I'll fight you on one condition. That you lower your nipples." " 'Tis a lie! Thy backside is whole and ungobbled, thou ungrateful whelp!"
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