Aphelium Aeternum "Dark Interstellar Mysteries" CD

Issued in jewel case with 12 page booklet

German symphonic black metal band Aphelium Aeternum is the resurrection of the stillborn Aphelium Eternal, a band conceived and left to die in 1995. Main songwriter/guitarist Tairach (Pestnebel, ex-Ungod) has conjured reasonably authentic early-to-mid 90’s black metal style here in the Norwegian style a la mid-period Obtained Enslavement minus the brutality, the mid-paced side of Troll, and such but his guitar work is the leadership here and the keyboards are not at all bombastic or varied as they provide general chorales in between thrashing movements. Their results here are more exacting, tightly performed compared to old stumbles from the mid-to-late 90’s like Aeba‘s ‘Im Scattenreich‘ et al. yet I found nothing at compelling about this work beyond its well-tempered sound and general authenticity.

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