Black Sun Aeon
| Black Sun Aeon | |
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 Band logo |
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| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Metal |
| founding | 2008 |
| Website | www.blacksunaeon.com |
| Founding members | |
| Tuomas Saukkonen | |
| Live line-up | |
| Tuomas Saukkonen | |
Guttural singing |
Mynni Luukkainen |
Clear vocals , guitar |
Mikko Heikkilä |
Black Sun Aeon was a music project that the Finnish musician Tuomas Saukkonen founded in Lahti in 2008 because some of the songs he wrote did not fit the style of his main bands Before the Dawn and The Final Harvest and other solo projects he founded. In 2013, Black Sun Aeon disbanded.
Band history
In 2008 Tuomas Saukkonen started the solo project "Black Sun Aeon". Saukkonen recorded all the instruments for Darkness Walks Beside Me and Routa himself in the studio . For the singing he got support from some guest musicians, namely Tomi Koivusaari ( Amorphis ), Ville Sorvali from Moonsorrow , Janica Lönn from Lunar Path , Mynni Luukkainen from Sotajumala and Mikko Heikkilä from Sinamore . The latter two are also active as singers and guitarists at the live performances. Saukkonen himself sits on the drums, taking over the vocals on some of the songs.
The first album Darkness Walks Beside Me was released on March 27, 2009 in Scandinavia , and a week later in the rest of Europe. It was recorded largely with the support of Juho Räihä in the Soundspiral and One Man Army studios. The mastering was done by Mika Jussila from Finnvox . Each song on the album had a name that began with "A Song for ...".
The music on Darkness Walks Beside Me is mostly slow, dark and melancholy. During the nine songs, the genre is changed several times, which makes it difficult to assign to one. Critics mostly describe the style as Dark or Doom Metal , but sometimes also as Death or Melodic Death Metal . Saukkonen describes it as going more towards Black Metal and Doom Metal. The texts are a kind of diary .
On March 31, 2010, the second album Routa was released in Scandinavia, and one day later in the rest of Europe. Like its predecessor, the record was already recorded and edited in the One Man Army and Soundspiral. The lyrics were all written exclusively by Tuomas Saukkonen, except for the song Core of Winter , which was written by Sami Lopakka ( KYPCK ), and the song Wanderer , which was written by Ville Sorvali. Saukkonen divided the album into two parts: one CD is called Talviaamu (winter morning), the other is called Talviyö (winter night). On Talviaamu you can find more melancholy, calm pieces, on Talviyö heavier, more brutal songs with some Black Metal influences. The criticism of the album is very positive because Saukkonen has not withdrawn from his style musically.
Discography
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Albums
- 2009: Darkness Walks Beside Me ( Stay Heavy Records / Cyclone Empire (Soulfood Music) )
- 2010: Routa ( Stay Heavy Records, Cyclone Empire (Soulfood Music) )
- 2011: Blacklight Deliverance ( Cyclone Empire (Soulfood Music) )
EPs & demos
- 2008: Dirty Black Summer ( Split - EP with Before the Dawn , Silent Rain , Godsplague and The Final Harvest, was only in the supermarket chain Antilla and the Tuska 2008 sold), ( Stay Heavy Records )
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Biography ( memento of March 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) accessed on July 10, 2010
- ↑ Reviews at visions-underground.com , stormbringer.at , laut.de , rocktimes.de , metal.de , the-pit.de , metalnews.de , powermetal.de , bloodchamber.de and stalker.cd
- ↑ Klaudia Weber: Interview with stalker.cd
- ↑ Tobias Gerber: Interview ( Memento of the original from May 7, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at the Metal Hammer
- ^ Discography ( memento of March 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on July 10, 2010
- ^ CD review
- ↑ CD review to Routa , CD review to Routa , CD review to Routa , CD review to Routa ( Memento of the original on 30 October 2012 at the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link is automatically inserted and not yet tested. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 10, 2010
- ↑ Black Sun Aeon in the Finnish charts. finnishcharts.com
