April 15, 2011 • self-released
Ära Krâ is a tough band to review—they're another group I really don't know much about, just another 2012 metal release on my radar and I have tons of those. This one doesn't impress me terribly much, though it isn't horrible.
Ferne Tage has a very interesting sound—it's definitely metal of some sort, but takes influences from all over the map: melodic death metal and black metal are most prominent. They manage to fuse them pretty effectively, and sound decent while doing so. The drumming ranges from slow deliberate beats to blasting, sometimes in the same song; the guitars are very expressive and have a lot of really nice riffs. I dislike the vocals though; the vocalist is always doing this mid-range scream (that sounds a bit like the Dillinger Escape Plan) no matter what the rest of the band is doing. It gets old fast.
It's an interesting album and, if nothing else, relatively unique. However it's not terribly interesting to me—at least, after several listens I'm not really inclined to ever hear it again. It's just another metal album, really.
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