(written by Islander)

Six years have passed since Halloween last occurred on a Saturday, and 11 more years will pass before it happens again, but it is indeed happening tomorrow, and on the verge of that most metal of holidays today has been a big day for new offerings of the devil’s music. We have one more offering for you before this weekday ends, a new song off a new album by Wisconsin’s Aronious in advance of the album’s release by The Artisan Era on November 13th.

The name of the album is The Ever Living Ones, and it follows two previous albums on the same label, Perspicacity (2020) and Irkalla (2022). This new one, which is 11 songs long, is yet another series of steps in the band’s increasingly fascinating musical evolution. The one we have for you today is “Antediluvian” — but before we get to it, you should really listen (or re-listen) to the album’s first single, “Dawn of Diathan“. Continue reading »

Having made quite a strong impression within the realms of technical death metal with their 2014 EP, Truth In Perception, the Wisconsin-based quintet Aronious are now poised to release their debut album, Perspicacity, which is set for release on March 13th via The Artisan Era. In the works for many year, and meticulously composed and recorded, this first full-length is a concept album — and a musically ambitious one that doesn’t follow all the standard tech-death tropes that you’ve become accustomed to by now.

So far, The Artisan Era has released three tracks from the album as signs of those ambitions and powerful accomplishments, and today we’re presenting the fourth and final advance track (among a total of 13 on the full album) before the record’s release next month. The song’s name is “An Assembled Reality“. Continue reading »