Aeon
Path Of Fire
3.5/5
Listen To: Kill Them All
Skip It: Total Kristus Inversus
In a 2008 interview with Decibel Magazine, Aeon guitarist Zebb Nilsson explains how the band's Christian phobic lyrics largely stem from vocalist Tommy Dahlström's irritating encounters with Jehovah's Witnesses while growing up. On Aeon's fourth full-length, Path Of Fire, Dahlström's hate for organized Christianity is once again at the forefront of the album's subject matter. In "Of Fire" Dahlström sings Your Jesus means nothing to me in a hellish growl. "Abomination To God" is a straight up manifesto of Dahlström's Christian opposition: I don't care what you say, I don't care what you think, Everything I do I do it for me, Nothing you can do to stop me he explains to the God he hates.
Aside from topping the most atheistic of lyrics, Aeon followers also know that beating their extreme musical technicality is out of the question. Path Of Fire leads you down a road of eleven new songs in true Aeon demeanour. Disc-opener "Forgiveness Denied" immediately races through blast-beats on par with black-metal ferocity and the math-metal guitar lines straying from conventional time signatures on "The Sacrament" are impressive and attention grabbing.
But sometimes the most impressive death metal bands turn you away by misusing the genre's categorizing techniques. After four solid breakouts of violent aggressiveness, Aeon does this with the minute and a half Latin acoustic filler track "Total Kristus Inversus". Guitarists Nilsson and Daniel Dlimi seem like they are showing off by racing up and down the nylon strings, over and over again, like a couple of rookies with something to prove. Frankly, the overall assault of Path Of Fire buries this attempt at a tasteful contrast, and would stand at the same high stature without it.
Track Listing:
1. Forgiveness Denied
2. Kill Them All
3. Inheritance
4. Abomination To God
5. Total Kristus Inversus
6. Of Fire
7. I Will Burn
8. Suffer The Soul
9. The Sacrament
10. Liar In The Name Of God
11. God Of War
Path Of Fire
3.5/5
Listen To: Kill Them All
Skip It: Total Kristus Inversus
In a 2008 interview with Decibel Magazine, Aeon guitarist Zebb Nilsson explains how the band's Christian phobic lyrics largely stem from vocalist Tommy Dahlström's irritating encounters with Jehovah's Witnesses while growing up. On Aeon's fourth full-length, Path Of Fire, Dahlström's hate for organized Christianity is once again at the forefront of the album's subject matter. In "Of Fire" Dahlström sings Your Jesus means nothing to me in a hellish growl. "Abomination To God" is a straight up manifesto of Dahlström's Christian opposition: I don't care what you say, I don't care what you think, Everything I do I do it for me, Nothing you can do to stop me he explains to the God he hates.
Aside from topping the most atheistic of lyrics, Aeon followers also know that beating their extreme musical technicality is out of the question. Path Of Fire leads you down a road of eleven new songs in true Aeon demeanour. Disc-opener "Forgiveness Denied" immediately races through blast-beats on par with black-metal ferocity and the math-metal guitar lines straying from conventional time signatures on "The Sacrament" are impressive and attention grabbing.
But sometimes the most impressive death metal bands turn you away by misusing the genre's categorizing techniques. After four solid breakouts of violent aggressiveness, Aeon does this with the minute and a half Latin acoustic filler track "Total Kristus Inversus". Guitarists Nilsson and Daniel Dlimi seem like they are showing off by racing up and down the nylon strings, over and over again, like a couple of rookies with something to prove. Frankly, the overall assault of Path Of Fire buries this attempt at a tasteful contrast, and would stand at the same high stature without it.
Track Listing:
1. Forgiveness Denied
2. Kill Them All
3. Inheritance
4. Abomination To God
5. Total Kristus Inversus
6. Of Fire
7. I Will Burn
8. Suffer The Soul
9. The Sacrament
10. Liar In The Name Of God
11. God Of War
Published by Tangible Sounds Music Magazine
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