Hailing from Greece Aenaon is an Avant Garde musical project that celebrates the Greek goddess of remembrance and the river of memory, this is their third full-length album and it is a myriad of textures and emotions that range from the extreme to the sublimely beautiful.
Heavily textured and rich in the purity of Black metal it is the progressive musical elements and the deft touch of saxophonist Orestis Zyrinis that set Aenoaon apart from other experimental acts. Whether it be the flourishes that imbue the harrowing “Cartesian Eye” and its pure heaviness or the dulcet melody that haunts instrumental Doppelganger which is reminiscent of Bowie’s Eno Trilogy.
“Mantledeath” is able to seamlessly merge the experimental with the extreme whilst “Hysteria” is exactly that.
An unhinged track full of chaos un uncontrollable energy, Clark Nova is simply a journey into the full-on jazz mindset (something extreme in itself).
The Pleiades is another subtle journey of acoustic and brass and Psyche is another rager highlighting the torments that vocalist Astrous represents, full of character emotion, fragility, and rage. Mnemosyne is a challenging album that is excellently recorded that captures the excellent musicianship and the ideas that are well thought out and excellently executed within
Representing the good and the not-so of the human spectrum of emotions and memory Aenaon has created a demanding yet satisfying journey that questions the nature of recollection and the eye that beholds it. It is bold audacious and incredibly heavy.
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Release Year: 2022
Label: Agonia Records
Category: Album
Country: Greece
Reviewed by Sparky
