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This mini-CD from the Finnish masters of megaslow brutality is possibly the least good (not “the worst”) of their releases. I´d say it´s not as marvelous as other Skepticism albums, but anyway it´s very interesting. Of course, it´s almost impossible to match the intensity and strength of “Stormcrowfleet” or “Lead and Aether”, and this is the reason of the “least good” words I´ve just written. Being “Aes” a miniCD consisting of almost twenty-eight minutes of music condensed in a single song, one could wonder how boring and torturing that song must be, since Skepticism music isn´t especially fast or varied. But, fortunately, this is wrong. Despite that the song is certainly monotone in tempo, the ambience and atmosphere is almost everflowing throughout the recording, and if there is not a wide range of rhythms and harmonies, this song achieves what it was made for: it´s a journey, a transit you will enjoy if tragic funeral doom metal appeals to your soul. Strangely enough, the track reveals itself shorter than it could seem before the listening, and that´s something very hard to do. But Skepticism is a really, really excellent band, and this way they´re demonstrating it again with “Aes”. While most of the bands paste several different, loose passages when creating a quite long song, Skepticism concentrate on their moods and landscapes and create something with a well-shaped body, with a subtle variety that doesn´t tear the balanced sound of the album. Definitely a quite well composed miniCD that delivers what this band knows perfectly how to do: slow, depressive, majestic doom metal with inhuman growling, coming from the deepest sorrow and a total absence of joy.
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| 1. Aes |
: 27.52
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