Death Island – Aeons Of Carnage Review: Deathlsland 1 is a Blackened Melodic Death Metal band from the United States. On October 12th, 2022, they independently released their debut EP album, Aeons Of Carnage. The album includes six nailing complex and unique atmosphere tracks that would gratify fans of Dimmu Borgir, Dissection, and Mayhem.
Death Island – Aeons Of Carnage Review opens and discusses the FIRST SIN: THE STRINGS/KEYS, which comprise complex rhythms/dark melodic passages and guitar shredding attacks.
Let’s talk about the SECOND SIN: THE VOCALS, which involves feasting of death growls/grunts & shrieks/shirls.
Moving on to the THIRD SIN: THE PERCUSSIONS, which delves into the vast world of various drum strikes and hard-hitting beats
In our following discussion about the band’s musical work, we will focus on the FOURTH SIN, the overall DISCUSSION of the album. Immediately, the listener presses the play button, where one is welcomed to the opening track, COMATOSE INCISIONS, which welcomes the listener with a rough-spoken word incantation -following suit with an artistry of feasting, brutal and complex attack of instrumentation and vocals.
Following suit with the second track, SEKO! and the remaining four pieces…
DEATH ISLAND is a band that nails the listener’s ears to their complex and unique sound and atmosphere before pulling them into fiery pits of hell by providing an album that’s written and penned like a novel (title and concept are not based on the battle at all), providing six short tales of Satanism, horror stories, mental illness, and gore to the listener’s ears.
As one continues their feasting and hellish concoction journey, one will find that DEATH ISLAND doesn’t give you the straightforward sound/atmosphere of death/black -but a dark-horrifying and torturous journey of a musical spectrum that’s -complex -yet brutal and dark -but melodic and theatrical.
As one will find and encounter, each track is different, capturing various moments and expressions (arrangement/aspect with each piece) with each piece, such as multiple moods, tempos, sounds, and atmospheres, which are provided by vocal and instrumental artistry of complex rhythms/dark melodic passages and shredding attack of the guitar, various drum strikes and hard-hitting beats, and vocals consisting of deep growls and snarls/shrieks.
Other different (complex/arrangements and amalgamation) moments within the music are also captured, which includes the icy-cold symphonic/orchestral (with a tint of their vocal work thrown in) aspect of DIMMU BORGIR, the speed-driven, heaviness and aggression of brutal death, the frigid Norwegian atmosphere and the forests of the north black metal and the blackened melodic death metal of DISSECTION.
AEONS OF CARNAGE is a unique piece of art that captures the heart and soul of extreme metal, black metal, brutal death, and melodic death metal, even throwing in touches of modern and old-school influences in their concoction —which is all delivered and provided by excellent devilmanship, along with six equally solid, strongly composing songs/music and lyrics includes Latvian words/phrases like Tad Seko Man, audio sound clips, etc
AEONS OF CARNAGE is topped off with solid production and sound quality (with information received); the album was re-recorded on basement tapes in a proper studio, resulting in a fantastic atmosphere of Aeon quality.
Suppose you like music feasted with extreme, complex, brutal, and pure headbangers. –this is for you and a must to listen to.
I wanted to share our thoughts and MEMORABILIA on the FIFTH SIN. The devilmanship that went into AEONS OF CARNAGE shows that hard work has gone into this fruit of art, while enjoying making the album.
Let’s discuss the ARTWORK of the SIXTH SIN. The album cover is a sketch of From the Battlefield, by Latvian (most famous) graphic designer and painter Kārlis Padegs (1911-1940), who was an ancestor to brothers MIK GRENDZE and KARLIS.
Finally, the review will close with the last sin, the SEVENTH SIN, the DISRELISH. Since there is nothing to disrelish within the musical world of DEATHISLAND. This concludes the Death Island – Aeons Of Carnage Review.
Aeons Of Carnage Song-listing:
- Comatose Incisions
- Seko!
- She Died a Virgin
- Vengeful Defilement
- Ad Altare Dei Demoni
- Wolves Are A Feasting
DeathIsland Members:
- Mik Grendze (guitar/vocals)
- Karlis “Rūķis” Grendze (drums)
- Jared McGuire (guitar)
- Patrick Harmon (bass)
- The band (two of the members (brothers) are both of Latvian heritage) is named after the battle (Sometimes called the “Island of Death”) in World War I. The battle occurred on the Daugava River in Latvia between the Latvian Riflemen Legions and the Germans. ↩︎
