BLOOD AGES - Godless Sandborn

July 6, 2016, 7 years ago

(Mighty Music)

Greg Pratt

Rating: 7.0

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BLOOD AGES - Godless Sandborn

Ambitious debut here for France-based death metallers Blood Ages, who flirt with Nile-esque sounds (well, what else are you going to call it? And you know what I'm talking about), brutal DM, deathcore, and a more straight-ahead death sound throughout this 47-minute disc. Now, as far as those four sounds go, I'm on board, sometimes on board, not really on board, and totally on board, so the album goes through some ebbs and flows as far as holding my interest goes, but this is quality stuff for a debut and shows a maturity, and a willingness to go big, that is definitely admirable for first time out. 

Sometimes they mush it together, as on cool sludgey centerpiece “From The Void To The Throne”, which tackles doomy death and pig squealie metalcore in one fell swoop, and does a pretty good job of it. Some of the instrumentation is impressive, as on “Collapse”, which switches moods and tones many times in its three minutes, but does so with fluidity and technical skill. Closer “The Maze” is also impressive in its heavy-hitting power, the album closing off with a majestic sweep that brings to mind, again, Nile, in all their ornate glory. Not that Blood Ages are as good as Nile in any regard, but damned if they don't have just a bit of that death metal magic coursing through their veins.



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