AeraneA
As the Sun Died

As the Sun Died, refreshing title. I think the name of the quartet offers a clue to what we can expect for a musical direction of their debut album. The cover art is also this post-apocalyptic dark dramatic vision, but of course you should never judge a book by its cover. But the cover is very attractive, the whole promise of the album is very attractive. But there is one thing of delivering a promise and delivering on that promise. So what about AeraneA, all talk and no substance or are they the real thing?

Lyrically they move in a post-apocalyptic world, where the light, the warmth and hope is all gone due to the inherent failings of the human race. Maybe a catastrophic eruption of a supervolcano is the cause and man is struggling to survive, I didn’t take too close a look at the lyrics as I prefer to make up my own stories from the music. The music itself is dark, melodic, a landscape in pale light as well as colours, kind of like a well saturated photo of a thunderstorm, exciting. The female vocals work really well in symbioses with the music, the production is really strong and I would describe this album as a very mature album for a debuting band. The variation is very strong over the ten tracks and fifty minutes of playing time so you will not be bored from repetition.

As a conceptual album I think all the tracks play together as a story and this album should really be heard as a whole rather than in pieces, as in single tracks. The tracks can be seen as chapters in a post-apocalyptic story. I love a good post-apocalypse, is there anything more refreshing than the end of human civilisation? I am not sure there is. This is a really good album, AeraneA offers us excitement, good melodies, darkness, lack of hope, a touch of progressiveness, anything you could really need in life. Dystopic visions is what makes the dystopic world I live in bearable.

I think these guys deserves to be recommended, their music is exciting, impressive and very well made. I think any fan of doom, gothic, progressive music will find this album very interesting and likeable. I have enjoyed going through this album, the refreshing darkness, depth and atmosphere make this an album well worth having a look at. I would describe this as a very promising start of what promises to be an excellent musical career. Well, only time will tell but until then we can listen to what happened as the sun died time and time again.

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