EPK – Skyless Aeons – Drain The Sun (2020)
Album Title: Drain The Sun
Release Date: October 2, 2020
Label: CDN Records
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“Musically, the song (Dimensional Entrapment) could be thought of as a blending of melodic death and black metal with some pronounced progressive tendencies. It will keep you a bit off-balance, but that’s part of what makes it enthralling to behold, and there’s engaging darkness at its core as well — a darkness that takes different shapes. Slightly discordant notes and thrumming bass tones create an immediate sense of uneasy musing. The unease blossoms into torment through broiling riffage, tumbling percussion, and guttural growls. The slithering, vibrato guitars reach shrieking apexes, but also diminish into menacing, mutated, burbling tones — and surge into rapidly jabbing assaults. The song continues to ebb and flow, eerie and haunting in one moment and absolutely insane in the next, as the guitar flurries reach plateaus of feverish mayhem and the vocals flare into throat-slaughtering shrieks. A mercurial guitar solo is initially enchanting but proves to be crazed as well — and the song ends in one last episode of uneasy reflection.” – No Clean Singing
“It’s heavy, thick and menacing… when it comes to most of the music, it’s hardened and aggressive as any Death Metal should be. Still, with a bit of a unique twist, any fans of the genre will probably find this album to their liking.” 8/10 – Metal Temple
“The follow-up to their 2016 debut EP, The Era of Famine, showcases a heavier approach as the group experiments in a progressive death direction. For those who enjoy bands such as Dark Tranquillity and Dissection, will want to check out Skyless Aeons.” – Metal Insider
“Progressive death with touches of doom and thrash metal, Skyless Aeons look to take their sound to a more majestic stage. Aiming to make a massive splash with a debut that is as enjoyably heavy as it is thought-provoking. 8/10” – Games, Brrraaains & A Head-Banging Life
“Skyless Aeons are accomplished musicians. Drain the Sun is full of complex moments, with some especially sweet bass lines, and the production is strong and hard-hitting, giving the music plenty of depth.” – Heavy Music Headquarters
“Skyless Aeons is as piercing as violent. Drain the Sun picks into the most extreme tones, combined to Prog patterns to temperate those waves of raw power.” – Acta Infernalis
“When it comes to Skyless Aeons, atmosphere is everything. Opening cut “Ascension Towards Nothing” builds over nearly 4 minutes before delivering a satisfying change up crunch and delving into the black depths of Death Metal riffage; it’s nearly 5 minutes before any vocals hit; and when they do it’s a slap in the face with a bag of rusty nails, such is the power of Ferreira’s roar. 8/10” – Metal Noise
“Rife with melancholy and rage, Drain the Sun is a fitting anthem for our times, and I can’t wait to hear more.” – Wicked Metal Review
“an interesting mix of textures” – Headshot Music
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Album Title: Drain The Sun
Release Date: October 2, 2020
Label: CDN Records
Album Credits:
• All songs performed by: Skyless Aeons
• All songs written by: Nicholas Luck and Skyless Aeons
• Produced by: Michael Marucci and Eric Altomonte @ the Watershed, London, Ontario
• Mixed by: Michael Marucci @ Sonic Zen Studios, London, ON
• Mastered by: Nathan Boots @ Visceral Sound Studios
• Album Artwork by: Sam Nelson/Stigma Art
• Member of SOCAN
• Canadian Content (MAPL)
Album and Live Band Line Up:
Nicholas Luck – Guitars/Vocals
Nathan Ferreira – Lead Vocals
Stefan Oliva – Bass
Martin Burchill – Drums
L-R: Stefan Oliva (Bass), Nicholas Luck (Guitars/Vocals), Nathan Ferreira (Lead Vocals), Martin Burchill (Drums)
Photo Credit: Skye Camara
Around 2014, guitarist Nicholas Luck and drummer Martin Burchill met as a result of an errant bus ride in London, Canada. At this time, Burchill was looking for a stable project after drumming in various rock/punk/metal bands over the last decade or so, and Luck, only 18 at the time, was looking to start a death metal band.
Vocalist Nathan Ferreira and bassist Steve Oliva followed shortly after and with a scathing collective disdain for the larger structures of society and a commitment to constant evolution in sound and ethos the band recorded and released the “Era of Famine” EP in 2016.
The band has already gained a reputation through local shows as one of the more unique and energetic death metal bands in the scene, opening up for artists such as Ashbringer, The Convalescence, Nesseria, and Killitorous – a wide variety of styles, yet somehow, Skyless Aeons shares musical similarities with all of them.
At a live show, one can expect certain synchronicity and chemistry that can only come from years of experience and practice feeding off of each other’s ideas. Couple that with vocalist Ferreira’s on-stage recklessness mixed with unusually sardonic and self-deprecating stage banter, and it’s no surprise that Skyless Aeons are gaining notoriety and drawing more and more people to their local performances as of late.
2020 brings a new album “Drain the Sun”; it takes a different approach, using much heavier and expansive riffing textures and shows refining and maturation of the band’s identity. It can best be described as “; progressive death metal” with some dissonant, doom-influenced leanings.
Discography:
2020 – Drain The Sun LP
2016 – The Era of Famine EP
Shared Stage with:
Ashbringer, Nesseria, The Convalescence, Killitorous, Astaroth Incarnate, Lutharo, Kavara, Trilateral
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