SONS OF AEON
SONS OF AEON

EDGE OF SANITY would write straight up goth hits like `Sacrificed' or `Black Tears' where as bands like ENTOMBED and XYSMA discovered a more vintage rock sound and incorporated that into their music. CARCASS released the more commercial, yet soulful “Heartwork”, AT THE GATES delivered the goosebump-choruses with “Terminal Spirit Disease”. NAPALM DEATH caused some confusion with the brilliant “Diatribes” and “Cathedral”...well, they just did what the hell they wanted and released several great albums, “Ethereal Mirror” leading the way. BOLT THROWER were always true to themselves and their punk-attitude left its mark to this young teenager forever. And even a small detail like the dude from GOREFEST wearing a ™Fuck Racism∫ T-shirt in False-era photos made a huge impact on me and my friends. Death Metal became more than just brutal music. It literally changed something in us. Then there was this local band called PARAXISM. They were this strange mix of challenging, yet melodic quality death metal spiced with electric violins and a moog. It was something I had never heard before. Their `93 demo is still the most important extreme metal release for me and played a huge part in my youth. Come to think of it, it's actually pretty odd that I never had a band like this before. I played in a stoner rock band for ten years and then we formed GHOST BRIGADE seven years ago. But I guess it was always in the back of my head, to do something like this one day. And that one day didn't happen over night, to be able to write and perform this kind of music took us three years. It was almost like learning to play guitar all over again. There were countless moments when I just wanted to give up. Luckily I didn't. Why I am writing this is because on some strange spiritual level, I find similarities between some of the nineties groups and SONS OF AEON. Just like with these bands, there is something “adventurous” and child-like innocence in us. It's hard to explain the heart and soul of SONS OF AEON in few sentences because I feel that the core idea lies more in constant sense of change and exploring, rather than just being a part of a certain genre and settling in. I think that once you hear the album, my words start to make sense. There is everything from old school death metal to chilled out melancholia and from dark hardcore to mid-tempo metal and they're all equally important parts of what SONS OF AEON is about. I feel fortunate to be a part of this. -W / a Son of Aeon