Black Sun Aeon - Routa (2010)^{Release ID: 9775}

A decent although fairly generic melodic death/doom metal release that didn't really grab my attention. The band has a nice crunchy sound reminiscent of many of the Swedish melodic death bands. I can detect a very strong "Brave Murder Day" era Katatonia influence in some tracks & these deeper melodic moments tend to be the highlights of this double CD. I'd like to see the band develop these sounds further on future releases as they are clearly very good at the dreamy doom stuff. The rest of the album is nothing new or fresh. The clean vocal choruses are not really my cup of tea. What is it with double CD releases of late? I see no gain in extending this to two CDs. It would've served the band much better to leave it at one.