REVIEW: AGES GONE - AGES GONE

 

AGES GONE - AGES GONE (Independent, 2000):

Technical data:

All tracks except "Psychjam" recorded at Jancee Warnick´s Studio by Jancee and Ages Gone

"Psychjam" recorded in Baron / Ages Gone rehearsal room by Ages Gone

Cover by Heike Ruschmeyer

Track List: 1- Intro, 2- 10, 3- 7, 4-9, 5- Bessy meets Ages Gone, 6- , 7- Fickpart, 8- Psychjam, 9-8

This is a very strange band. Starting in the first track as a death metal band with some keyboards and noises that differntiate them from the standard, they evolve through the different tracks into something muchweirder where the keys and pianos and more predominant. The vocals are like the ones in a death metal band, and there is also another type of vocals more like an anguished man. There are interesting guitar solos and a certain jazz influence in many of the tracks here (check the killer solo in "7") and that gives a lot of originality to the songs too. I like the way the keyboards , played by Martin Rascher, start to be predominant in the compositions interacting with the heavy guitar riffs and the bass (there are some really interesting bass patterns like for example in "9", not only in the beginning but through all the song). This is a killer band to don´t miss a step, I think that we can expect more wonderful music coming from them in the near future. One of the albums of the month. Favorite tracks: the whole albumContact: www.agesgone.de