CoC : Aeternus - Beyond the Wandering Moon : Review

Aeternus - _Beyond the Wandering Moon_
(Hammerheart Records, 1997)
by: Andrew Lewandowski (9 out of 10)

Finally, a band that can be described as "black death" without the reviewer (or record company) implying that they don't equal the quality of pure death or pure black metal bands. _BtWM_ features a coherent synthesis of the morose, medieval melodies of modern black metal with the low end bombastic production of a death metal act. Aeturnus effortlessly alternate between blasting, breakneck passages and more absorbing moments akin to latter-day Burzum, where slight tonal variations lurk beneath a dense wall of sound. A powerful album which is one of the few to balance corporeal anger and ethereal, melancholic beauty.

(article published 16/10/1997)

CHATS
15/1/2000	P Schwarz	Aeternus: And From the Night Came... Shadows of Old?

ALBUMS
18/4/2006	J Montague	5	Aeternus - Hexaeon
8/6/2003	P Azevedo	7.5	Aeternus - A Darker Monument
3/7/2002	P Azevedo	8	Aeternus - Ascension of Terror
15/1/2000	P Schwarz	8.5	Aeternus - Shadows of Old
1/9/1998	A McKay	9	Aeternus - ... And So the Night Became

GIGS
20/11/2000	P Schwarz	Mayhem / Aeternus / Red Harvest	Declaring War on the Underground
15/1/2000	M Noll	Cannibal Corpse / Marduk / Angelcorpse / Aeternus / Defleshed	Two Corpses, One God and No Flesh
14/3/1999	P Schwarz	Deicide / Rotting Christ / Aeternus / Ancient Rites / Behemoth	Dead by Dawn