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
3.5/5 ·
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"Timeline: The Beginning And End Of Everything" is the 5th full-length studio album by US black/death metal act Aurora Borealis. The album was released through Nightsky Productions in February 2011. Aurora Borealis have existed since 1994, and have in their history featured several prolific names in the lineup (among others Tony Laureano, Derek Roddy, Tim Yeung). The only constant member of the band is vocalist/guitarist Ron Vento. On this album he is joined by drummer Mark Green and bassist Jason Ian Vaughn Eckert. The latter also played bass on Aurora Borealis debut full-length studio album "Praise the Archaic Lights Embrace (1998)", but hasn´t been a member in the intermediate years, so he makes a return here.

The music on the album is technically well played blackened death metal. The blackened element is actually limited to the raspy and raw vocals though and other than those vocals, I´d label the music death metal. It´s riff based music with good variation in pace. Blasting sections are combined with mid-paced heavier sections throughout the album. The quality of the songwriting and the execution of the music are relatively high, but "Timeline: The Beginning And End Of Everything" is not the most varied album out there. The tracks are a bit hard to tell apart, and the sound production which lacks dynamics also makes it an album that´s not as memorable as it could have been. Every instrument and vocal track seem like they are set to the same volume throughout the entire album, and it has the effect that you are sometimes left wondering if you are still listening to the same song or if a new one has started.

I´m probably being a bit more critical than I should here, because "Timeline: The Beginning And End Of Everything" is still a pretty great album by Aurora Borealis, and although I have some issues with the album, it´s not certain that other listeners will have the same reservations. A 3.5 star (70%) rating is deserved.
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