Æges
The Bridge
The Mylene Sheath (2012)
Los Angeles band Æges are a beautiful combination consisting of equal parts post-hardcore and sludge metal, and you can plainly hear this on their 2012 debut The Bridge. It combines weighty and languid guitar churning with fast-paced and frenetic songwriting to create a stunningly vivid result.You can prominently hear the hardcore facet of Æges's sound on the majority of their songs. The opener "Wrong", for example, is an explosive track bursting with clean vocals and contrastingly dirty guitar lines, and the head-bobbingly catchy "The Words We Say" seeps with hardcore influences. Other tracks sound much closer to their sludgier post-metal side, especially with some of their longer offerings. "Southern Comfort" is full with low crunching guitars, mid-tempo, repetitive streams of chords, and bittersweet melodies, and the centrepiece track "The Bridge" is full of gratuitous builds, soaring vocals, and cathartic crescendos.They aren't without their sweet moments, either. The slow-paced "My Medicine" manages to be aggressive while still maintaining a sentimental presentation, offering a small respite from the crunchiness surrounding it. "Sent From Heaven (Rest in Dirt)" also manages to be a surprisingly moving piece, mostly driven by the anthemic vocal melodies. The closer "Fade Out" definitely takes the cake though, featuring … Read more
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