{"id":68859,"date":"2018-04-27T00:00:37","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T00:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=68859"},"modified":"2018-05-07T12:11:38","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T12:11:38","slug":"album-review-aura-noir-aura-noire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-aura-noir-aura-noire\/","title":{"rendered":"AURA NOIR – Aura Noire (2018) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

AURA NOIR
Aura Noire<\/strong><\/span>
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\nIndie Recordings (2018)<\/span>
Rating: 8\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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And so it has come, six years after their last album \u2013 Out To Die<\/em><\/a> \u2013 Norway\u2019s Aura Noir spread their black leathery wings and descends upon us like ravenous harpies unleashed from their foul lair. You knew it was coming, you braced yourself for so long and yet you still weren\u2019t prepared for the lashing.<\/p>\n

Aura Noire<\/em> is the sixth outing from this vile clan of black thrashers, and it doesn\u2019t disappoint. With talons fully extended, beaks sharpened and skin tougher than dragon hide, lead-off single \u2018Dark Lung Of The Storm\u2019 ransacks old, primitive Voivod of its rust \u2018n\u2019 bones and comes hammering, clanking and flailing wildly.<\/p>\n

Black plumes of oily smoke devour the nostrils and coat the lungs as Aggressor spews forth much mulch, bile \u2018n\u2019 bilge as the trio chaotically rattles with volatile unlawfulness. It\u2019s straight up black thrash from the bowels of Hell; Aura Noir raking the eyes, pecking at the retinas, spiking your flesh and chewing on your bones. The assault is unrelenting; a punked up deathgasm of hate and evil whereby Apollyon\u2019s hectic drum patterns master the art of barbarism.<\/p>\n

But the mood changes dramatically with the festering, squalid lurch of \u2018Grave Dweller\u2019. This time the pace is left until late as the threesome vomits up a slow, menacing vibe or squirming vocal snarls before finally gunning us down with machine-gun fire riffage, the razor-sharp chords carving and gouging before the final hammer attack.<\/p>\n

Aura Noir have never taken any prisoners, and so with this new bout of violence there was never going to be any change. The likes of \u2018Hell\u2019s Lost Chambers\u2019 (the longest track on the platter) come with jagged structuring; the jarring framework an almost uncomfortable stir of icy evil, with Blasphemer\u2019s guitar sound as wicked and spiky as it ever was within that organic void of arrogance.<\/p>\n

The rest of the tracks come thick and fast, all built upon those thorny foundations of jolting thrash hostility. The abrasive strains of the short \u2018The Obscuration\u2019 and \u2018Demoniac Flow\u2019 provide equal measures of ferocious thrash and scowling moodiness, while \u2018Shades Ablaze\u2019 chugs with nefarious aplomb as the trio combs the depths of the 80s thrash underground but add their own despicable and prickly edges.<\/p>\n

\u2018Mordant Wind\u2019 also chugs with ominous intent, with the wailing guitars providing perfect flecks of metallic grey to accompany Aggressor\u2019s commanding bellows, while \u2018Cold Bone Grasp\u2019 again nods to the likes of early Voivod with its punk-thrash grimness; the drums clanking to the guitar and bass din amidst wild conjurations of Venom, Hellhammer and Darkthrone too.<\/p>\n

When the attack finally subsides, we\u2019re left with the usual bloody wounds we\u2019ve always suffered with an Aura Noir opus; the experience on the whole being raw, primitive, rusty and mocking in its leering diligence. And that\u2019s exactly what one would expect when members Aggressor, Apollyon and Blasphemer get together. Aura Noire<\/em> is a black thrash trip you won\u2019t forget. <\/p>\n

Neil Arnold<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AURA NOIRAura Noire Indie Recordings (2018)Rating: 8\/10 And so it has come, six years after their last album \u2013 Out To Die \u2013 Norway\u2019s Aura Noir spread their black leathery wings and descends upon us like ravenous harpies unleashed from their foul lair. You knew it was coming, you braced yourself for so long and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,389],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-aura-noir"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68859"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68861,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68859\/revisions\/68861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}