SULPHUR AEON - Gateway To The Antisphere

June 3, 2015, 8 years ago

(Ván Records/Imperium Productions)

Greg Pratt

Rating: 9.0

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SULPHUR AEON - Gateway To The Antisphere

Second album out for this powerhouse German DM crew, and it's all adding up very well: the tunes are just this side of a cleaner version of the suffocating swirl of a band like Pyrrhon, the nautical theme adds a fun layer not usually found in this sort of intense blackened death, and the songs themselves evoke the majesty of Behemoth but with a more intense extreme edge.

I know I've heard their debut, but it made little to no impact on me, but Gateway To The Antisphere's relentlessness and, well, relentlessness (this is nothing if not forward momentum) is impressing me, even the overwhelming 53-minute run time making sense in this case, the band dead-set on just keeping things moving ahead (see the hysterical "Titans" for a good example of this, although, really, every song here is pretty interchangeable with another). There's more going on here than most of their peers, and Sulphur Aeon manage to take the heavy hitting of a band like Portal or Ulcerate but also make it a bit more energizing and invigorating, no small task.



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