Triade I: Eos

This album is excruciatingly close to greatness.

Aara play a tight form of melodic black metal with some of the clearest and cleanest production in the business. The sheer eeriness of ‘Naufragus’ and ‘Das Wunder’ showcases the otherworldly, haunted rapture this could’ve been. But while the songs’ structures are incredibly tight, many of the melodies and much of the atmosphere outright hypnotic, the riffs play it far too safe. Far much repetition occurs ... read more