Album Type : Full Length
Date Released : 27/09/2013
Label : Quality Steel Records
Prisoner of the
Sun, album track listing :
1). Tribute 4:38
2). Medicin 3:26
3). Invisible Cut
5:25
4). Suntomb 4:50
5). Kaos 4:44
6). Death 7:23
7). Winter 4:04
Bio
:
Ajuna's music is
"Psychological" and "pre-Conscious". Hailing from
Copenhagen, Denmark, Ajuna collectively created to introverted universe did
revolves around emotional suffering, parallel realities, eccentric philosophy
and death. QUALITY STEEL
RECORDS is going to release the psychotically atmospheric, dark and harsh toned
debut full length album "Prisoners of the Sun" in the fall of 2013.
Consisting of 7 songs, "Prisoners Of The Sun" which recorded and
mixed by producer Jacob Bredahl (The Kandidate, The Psyche Project, Koldborn,
As we fight, The Burning, By the patient, Helhorse etc.
The
Band :
Skovsted
Hufsa
Helmer
Trampe
Hartfelt
Review
:
Ajuna
play atmospheric/bleak post black metal. They hail from Denmark. The sound hits
you first; sombre and thick with warmth in the sonics, if not the material. It
is indeed bleak stuff as Tribute opens proceedings with bm blast/roll
style beats and plenty of slower tempo work. The guitars are atonal and rather
menacing with some memorable riffing/progressions.
Medicin starts slow and in
angular fashion. The instruments have a chance to breathe nicely with the thick
production not stifling them. The bass has an excellent tone to it while the
drums sound live and real. The vocals hit a familiar black metal style shriek
in places, with a more deathly delivery also rearing its head.
Invisible
Cut
uses slow tempos to its advantage, breaking up the record nicely. The approach
to start is veritably doomy with down tuned guitars and bass rumbling away. One
guitar takes the riffing up the neck to move the sound into more familiar
blackened territory while the groove locks down then lurches upwards with only
a little warning (listen to it and you will hear what I mean).
Suntomb sounds almost like
post punk to start and carries with it an odd, head nodding pace that utilises
the fast picking/slow melodic progression of black metal well before blurring
into noise for the verses. The album's title is in the lyrics (as you may have
guessed from the title) and the record does indeed remind me a little of
Dragged Into Sunlight during at the half way point.
Kaos has an almost
pleasant type of shoegaze-ish riff at first but the despair sets in soon enough
as again the tempos vary and the tracks shifts through the various gears
creating a rather (un)pleasant soundscape.
Death comes ripping
(apologies) out with distorted and rhythmical bass work creating a solid
bedrock with the drums as the guitars reinforce and accentuate the rolling
refrain. Again, the guitars do unusual things- at once fast and furious but
supplying angular melodies also. The band make good use of this trick over this
(the album's longest track) and over the whole record. There is certainly light
and shade within the track as fury is juxtaposed with rays of hope here and
there.
Finally
Winter brings this unusual and engrossing album to a conclusion with a
thick wall of noise taking as the band make use of the warm production- noisy
and artful just about sum the track up. Fancy something a little different?
Post black metal with a wide scope of sounds, this record is excellent and is
well worth your time.
Words by : Richard Maw
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