Sulphur Aeon - Seven crowns and seven seals CD - SULPHUR AEON's latest work is blessed with contrasts, a sonic ebb and flow. A typhoon of angular riffs and wild blast beats, refined layers of melody, dense atmosphere, and triumphantly sung refrains take hold of you. Ethereal acoustic guitars, subtle synthesizers, a touch of gothic ('The Yearning Abyss Devours Us'), rich leads, E-bow parts, intense aggression ('Arcane Cambrian Sorcery'), monumental heaviness that transitions into hypnotic vocal patterns ('Seven Crowns And Seven Seals'), and a grand finale ('Beneath The Ziqqurrats') - 'Seven Crowns And Seven Seals' transcends genres; it rages and destroys, lulls you into dangerously deceptive calm moments later, only to irresistibly drag you into the dark whirlpool of the ocean. SULPHUR AEON master their penetrating cinematic death metal of the highest class, surpassing themselves and yet sounding unmistakably coherent - perfectly captured and refined by long-time collaborators Simon W