AURORA BOREALIS — Timeline: The Beginning And End Of Everything (review)

AURORA BOREALIS — Timeline: The Beginning And End Of Everything album cover Album · 2011 · Death Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
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Timeline: The Beginning And End Of Everything is the fifth album from the U.S.A.’s Aurora Borealis, released in 2011 strictly with only ever one pressing, but also as a free download complete with digital artwork. The album is a concept piece telling the story of the entire history of the universe, right from the beginning Big Bang through to the rise of Mankind and ultimately to the end of time itself and from there the birth of the next universe. The concept may well appeal to science-fiction fans first and foremost since this is a concept that has been written about in much sci-fi literature.

The music on the album is a black/death metal affair, with a sound being closest to what I’d describe best as blackened death metal. That is to say, the instruments take on a death metal approach but the vocals of Ron Vento are much more suited to black metal than death, though there are some moments where overall the sound leans more towards black metal.

There is an intro track on the album, Our Legacy, which involves setting up the concept with “the last message the human race will send”, before the main story begins with Crucible of Creation, which is an excellent blackened death metal track. It’s clear right from here onwards that Aurora Borealis have produced an album with an incredibly tight sound. Vento’s mix of black metal growls with death metal music really works for them here and the music clearly isn’t written with just brutality in mind, even though it can hit you with a serious punch, there is plenty of technical stuff on offer as well as Vento proves himself worth his salt for guitar skills as well as a talented vocalist and composer. Along with bass guitarist Jason Ian Vaughn Eckert and drummer Mark Green, Aurora Borealis are a very strong and talented unit and Timeline... is probably one of the best death metal albums I’ve heard in some time.

That said Timeline... isn’t a perfect album for me, due to the fact that I don’t find every track on offer quite as memorable as the true highlights like the aforementioned Crucible of Creation and also Stygian Depths, The Only Space Race That Matters, Beyond The Oort Cloud and Tearing Holes In The Fabric Of Time. But it is an extremely solid album that doesn’t have any major down turns in terms of quality and as I stated in my opening paragraph, Aurora Borealis have chosen to release this album as a free download and for me one does not need any more incentive to check it out than that.

(Originally written for Heavy Metal Haven)
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