Aeon - Bleeding The False (2005)

In light of a new Aeon disc coming out, I've been listening to their last disc a whole bunch recently. I figured I'd throw out my opinion on it. Aeon is a Swedish death metal band whose sound can basically be described as Cannibal Corpse's riffing sensibilities with Deicide's lyrical slant. It's amazing these guys didn't come from Florida. One of the things that really hooked me to Aeon at first WAS the lyrics. I think they're hilarious, and are totally tongue-in-cheek. I'm entirely confident that the guys sat around and tried to come up with absurd, hilarious anti-Christian lyrics just for the sake of it. Song titles include "Bible whore," "Satanic Victory," & "God Gives Head In Heaven". If you can sit through your first listen of "God Gives Head In Heaven" and not laugh your ass off at the lyrics, you're a better man than I. Tommy Dahlström's delivery on said lyrics is excellent as well. He's really easy to understand, so you don't need to read the lyrics to get the full scope of them, as you do with some bands, and he just sounds brutal. The rest of the band is excellent as well, the riffs and solos provided by Daniel Dlimi and Zeb Nilsson are all around excellent. The riffs are technical and punishing and the solos are well written. The interesting thing to me, is on this album at least, they appear to be using a lot less distortion on their amps than most death metal bands do nowadays. It almost gives it a kind of 'old school' feel. the bass is audible, and well played, but doesn't do a lot of fills or anything. It's mostly filling the low end out on the riffs. The drumming is excellent as well, and quite varied. The best thing about this CD is that there's no throwaway tracks, aside from the intro (Cenobites), the outro and that weird little ambient "Middle-tro" (Enchanter). The songs are quality enough to be a best of CD from a lesser death metal band. There's never a point on this CD where I felt like skipping ahead to the next track. Each track has its on unique sound (dare I say 'hook'?) or hilarious lyric that makes me want to 'sing' along. A great bonus, as noted in some other reviews, is the "Gospel" Version of "God Gives Head In Heaven". I think this may be the single greatest B-side/bonus track/whatever on any death metal CD. Its got everything stereotypically associated with Christian Contemporary worship songs -- acoustic guitar, Southern drawl singing and cheesy violin tracks. When it first starts, you'd think you were listening to something off of Country Music Television, until the singer starts belting out "Join your faggot god!" in a southern accent -- A definite winner. All in all, I'd say this was one of the most solid traditional death metal style CD releases of 2005.

• Genre: Brutal Death Metal
• Quality: mp3@CBR320 kbps (CD-Rip, Lame 3.93)
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