Style: blackened death metal
Primary Emotions/Themes: Offer thineself to the great cosmic void, slay thine own soul for the consumption of the old ones
Thoughts: I am tired. I wish to surrender myself to a being who will consume me so I can be no more. I am tired of this life and the ills it brings. Take me away oh great destroyer, I sacrifice myself to your will.
Before we start to dissect this album, can we take a moment to appreciate how cool the album title is? I've shared this title with many people who are not metal fans and the most common reaction is something along the lines of "That's one of the most metal title's I've ever heard." I tend to agree.
Sulphur Aeon's third album is an experience to say the very least. It's perhaps one of the single best albums to come out of extreme metal in the past few years. It manages to combine harrowing melodies that claw at my sanity every chance they get with a sense of heaviness and destruction that simply is not heard in melodic music these days.
With their third album Sulphur Aeon has solidified themselves as one of the best bands in all of extreme metal... no scratch that they are one of the best active bands regardless of the genre of metal. They have created a sound here that few can even get close to. The world yearns for change... and the great old ones are here to heed that call.
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