New Music Watch: Aetherium Mors – Entrails of the Soul EP
Nov 23
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Aetherium Mors – Entrails of the Soul EP
At the beginning of the year, I reviewed the debut album from UK blackened death merchants Aetherium Mors, Drenched In Victorious Blood, a record that I really enjoyed for its more than ample face scorching aside from a few flaws on the technical side. In short order, the band has put together a new EP, Entrails of the Soul, and once again I’m pretty impressed with the results.
All the signatures of their initial offering are present here, albeit with a tighter overall chemistry, demonstrating the group’s growth and development as a band. The four songs on the new EP are dynamic and well crafted assaults of scathing death metal fury, featuring raspy graveyard growls, breakneck riffs, and pummeling drums. The group’s brand of blackened brutality is still all the more impressive for coming out of a fairly new band, as the songwriting and technical prowess showcased here would easily befit a much more established and mature ensemble. Best yet is the improvement on the technical side of things on this effort; the mix is a little more evened out this time around, the drums no longer overpower at their more furious moments and the vocals have a more distinct presence. Don’t take that as meaning polished though, the band’s sound is still appropriately gritty and primal, a characteristic that does much to compliment the scorching sensibilities of the music’s assault.
Aetherium Mors is certainly an independent band deserving of attention for anyone looking for a three-way crossover between Swede-styled death, Norwegian blackness, and UK doom. If the new Entrails of the Soul EP is any indication of what they have in store for their next full length, we should be seeing quite a solid release of metal fury.
Check out the EP below, follow the band on Facebook, and make sure to be on the lookout for a physical release in early 2014.
http://www.aetheriummors.co.uk/
