Review of Aspherium - "The Fall of Therenia"
- Geoff Teach
- Sep 14, 2014
- 2 min read
INDEPENDENT INSANITY
By: Geoff Teach
Oslo, Norway’s Aspherium are self-described science fiction nerds. This being said, it comes as no surprise that the motif of the band’s latest full-length effort, “The Fall of Therenia” (Independent), is one of outer-space battles and the conquest of outlying solar systems. The cover art, the lyrics, and the song titles scream celestial madness. However, the music screams epic melodic death metal of the highest quality, execution, and production. Seriously, was there some sort of Bilderberg-style meeting of the great metal minds last year that I missed? What is it with 2014 and all these fantastic albums? It is as if metal itself decided that 2014 would be its year of world domination and put a charge into the bands of the globe to write and record killer albums, one after another, after another...and count Aspherium’s “The Fall of Therenia” as yet another of these mind-blowingly monumental releases.
Resembling something similar to a blend of In Flames, Ovid’s Withering, and Dissonance in Design, Aspherium manages to craft a sound that is savagely brutal, calculatingly technical, and dynamically enormous. Right from the get-go, Aspherium takes you on a violent ride through their own imaginary cosmos with the title track, “The Fall of Therenia”, and then immediately into the immensity of the ten-minute “The Revenant”, one of my favorites on the ten-track effort. In all honesty, though, every song on the album is spectacular in its own right, and other gems include “Guardians at the Gate”, “City of Stone”, “Regret and Eternal Sorrow”, “Landfall”, and “As We Light Up the Sky”, which concludes with none other than a splendid Spanish acoustic outro. Aspherium has put out a stellar album in “The Fall of Therenia”, one that is as intricate as it is vast, and as enjoyably beautiful as it is ferociously heavy. I cannot imagine too many metal heads who will be able to escape its grip once they have entered its gravitational field, so order yourself a copy today, and enjoy!
Keep it metal, class dismissed!
To listen to “Broken Beauty” off of “The Fall of Therenia”, just press play below!
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