Age of Woe
An Ill Wind Blowing

In the ages of woe there is an ill wind blowing for the Swedes that makes up this band who are just now releasing their second album. I missed their first but with the experience from their self-titled EP I cannot really say that I am sorry for that. Still, I gave this album a good chance and played it many times. This because I couldn’t resist as the label wrote “Note: Take your time, this is no fastfood music!” It was a sentence to good to resist, great promotion until you start thinking about it – what the hell is fastfood music? I know what fastfood music isn’t, but I cannot help wondering what it is – but that is another matter for another time.

This album is extreme metal, quite simplistic, heavy and with a decent tempo and energy. I guess it will be rather easy for fans of this kind of music to take to, but it is not particularly adventurous or varied. The production is okay but nothing special and that is what I keep thinking about the album as a whole. The songs just don’t give me anything, I keep playing the album and I keep forgetting it.

It is an album that I think is neither good nor bad, an album that you forget as soon as you have played it. At least I keep doing it and when I am staring at the screen trying to ignore my hateworthy neighbours that I wish were dead and trying to think of what to write, I wonder why I am doing this. Why do I try to write about albums that is impossible to write anything decent about because they are completely uninteresting – like this album, the most memorable thing is that phrase and I don’t think the band wrote that one.

Age of Woe hardly impresses with their new album and you can almost feel that ill wind blowing them off to some bin somewhere near my seating position. I may have forgotten how it sounds but one thing I know for sure is that at least it isn’t fastfood music.

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