The Ancient Realm - Aeveron

The most recent E.P. from Germany’s Aeveron (from Zwickau) sees them head towards an epic black metal direction without losing any of the pleasant melodies and harmonies that characterised their earlier upbeat death metal. Although black metal tends to be regarded with some disdain by the majority of people due to preconceptions of overly distorted production, identical-sounding songs and tendencies towards Satanism, this is only true for about 98% of bands. Only joking – in fact, much popular opinion of the genre is understandably influenced by the high profile of bands such as England’s own Cradle of Filth, whose mixture of tongue-in-cheek blasphemy and gothic fashion ...