WELICORUSS — Aperion (review)

WELICORUSS — Aperion album cover EP · 2009 · Symphonic Black Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
3/5 ·
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Genre: symphonic metal

Released in 2009 as a follow up to WinterMoon Symphony from 2008, Апейрон, or Aperion is a bit of a mixed bag EP from Russian sympbonic extreme metallers Welicoruss.

Welicoruss take the listener on a journey through quite different and varying landscapes of sound ranging from lush symhonies to industrial dance metal and whatever might lie between. The title track 'Апейрон' is pretty much a melodeath tune with with elements of dark power metal as well as melodic black metal and features some nice guitar harmonies as well as some blastbeat sections with atmoshperic keyboards in the background and melodic guitars on top. 'Blud Flower' is a lush symphonic metal instrumental while 'Flower of the Universe' is an epic symphonic peice featuring a bit of electric guitar. There is also a heavy metallic version of 'Knight's Tale' and 'Слава Рус' combines symphonic metal with Slavic folk metal, and 'Славянская Сила (Elias remix)' is a techno version of 'Славянская Сила' from 2008's WinterMoon Symphony, which is otherwise stylistically similar to 'Слава Руси'.

While casual symphonic metal listeners might enjoy 'Апейрон', 'К Дальним Мирам', 'Blud Flower', and 'Слава Руси', this EP is probably primarily aimed at people who are already fans of the band, who are likely to be more interested in the remixes that it contains than non-fans are. Fans should definitely check this EP out, while a better introduction to the band for non-fans is probably the 2008-album WinterMoon Symphony or perhaps the 2011-maxi Карна.

(review originally posted at seaoftranquility.org)
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