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- Band:
Aversions Crown - Duration: 00:13:00
- Available since: 05/08/2025
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Nuclear blast
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Hard to die, the Aversions Crown reappear on the market five years after the latest full-length “Hell Will as for Us All”, looking for yet another relaunch in a career that so far, even in the face of a 'heavy' contract like the one with Nuclear Blast, has always given the feeling of proceeding in sobs, between incapable discs to launch its name in the Serie A of the Death-Core movement and a adverse. The choice of the frontman (just think of Tyler Miller, suddenly hired by friends Thy Art Is Murder as soon as CJ McMahon in September 2023).
In any case, the Queensland group is still here, and through the three songs of “A Voice from the Outer Dark” it seems intent on trying again by leveraging on a writing so derivative and devoid of traits that characterize its physiognomy, but that compared to the past – when our people chased this or that trend without offering the listener who knows what memorable passages – at least flows in a fluid way.
Thus, after the cold and alien tones of the first releases, inspired by names at that moment relevant such as Fallujah and The Faceless, and the dense and apocalyptic ones of the aforementioned “Hell …”, embraced in the wake of the success of the Fit for Autopsy by Will Putney, is the turn of a tracklist in which the purely extreme component chooses to make a large voice, conflicting in a sound never like that aggressive, excited, malicious and remembering, among Blast-Beat discharges, guitars such as razors and atmospheres at the limits of black metal, the contents of the latest ABorted and Cattle decapital works.
In short, if it is true that the imitative approach continues to be an integral part of the Aversions Crown, still volatile from the point of view of personality and stylistic coherence, it is equally true that this move works better than the previous ones, by virtue of a songwriting certainly more on fire and perky.
Clear, the EP format helps (and not a little) in the task of focusing ideas and keeping the tension high, nevertheless it must be said that the Australian boys – now reached by Alex Teyen on the microphone – give the impression of believing it more and moving with a little more instinct, perhaps in response to the frustration experienced in recent times.
The result is a quarry quarter of an hour of Death Metal/Death-core in which the riffs happen, agile and concise, on a rhythmic system in which the breakdown formula is not structural, but an element to corroborate the incede of the pieces and accentuate the subsequent restarts, with the Open/title-TRACK which, specifically, works wonderfully in presenting the new course of the project.
Therefore, taking note of the improvements and the usual care in the packaging completely, from artwork to production, all that remains is to see if, focusing on the formula and avoiding taking the easiest path for mere convenience, these musicians will finally be able to give their path a decisive turning point.
For now, we just find the success of this short return.
Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
