Modebath - â#TheNewAeonâ Review
"Searing, soaring melodic grunge melds with modern metalisms, resulting in a dark, brooding one-man masterpiece that fully sates the voracious appetite of oneâs earworms.â - ZRS
1. âOZâ
For the opener, this âEvery man is his own Godâ narrative by Mathew Forbes is draped over a tribal beat and a cinematic score.
2. âPHASESâ
Immediate heaviness leads to and gives way to soaring vocal lines over fluid, bass-heavy permutations in this hard opener.
3. âTHE ESPERâ
Drums from the deep mesh intensely with mildly dissonant arpeggios and beefy, grinding bass which carries the beautifully haunting vocal melody, rich with lyrical mysticism.
4. âEYE ON YOUâ
Unexpectedly, the prominence of a Telecaster in itâs near-natural state arrives, and bridges the gaps between smoky, slithering roadhouse-rock riffs, discoesque rhythms, and modern pop-metal sensibilities, which ultimately crashes the system.
5. âTHE LOVERâS WALKâ
Shimmering, lush dissonance with a technotic rhythmic feel merges with heavy nods to mature, brainy melodic grunge.
6. âCHARâ
Barn-burning chug right out of the gate, with sinuous and constantly fluid grace note melodies resolving into a heavy, anthemic groove.
7. âSEEING REDâ
Sparse, skeletal, dissonant guitar lines lead in and land in the realm of grinding, doomy grungecore. Contained within are some of the most memorable choral melodies on the record, and the track bleeds seamlessly into:
8. âMETAMORPHOSISâ
A transitive haunter of an intermissionary track.
9. âBENEATH YOUâ
Hard-driven rhythms with an odd-meter feel and tense pauses meld neatly with âstraightâ metered, fluid melodic vocal flow which tempers the surface tension.
10. âEND OF DAYSâ
Time division assumes a free-form feel and leaves you searching for the âoneâ. Melody and rhythm dance circuitously together until the guitar solo, which suddenly reins it all in, before returning to the jazzscape and beyond, ending in a slightly more normalized metal groove, severed by a haunting shamanâs cry.
11. âBOREALISâ
Chord changes slowly turn and burn over grinding rhythms, which then churn into a heavy groove-grunge feel, 'lesliedâ and tethered to choral vocal lines that linger and echo long after the track and record have ended.
