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| Popmatters. |
 Neaera has been one of the best and most consistent bands in the new wave of German metal during the past decade. After two albums of tough and brutal metalcore, the band really found their stride on 2008’s Armamentarium, an extremely strong melodic death metal album with a vast number of standout tracks. Armamentarium was the album that put Neaera in the top echelon of Germany’s new metal scene, leading the pack alongside Heaven Shall Burn and Caliban. Although 2009’s Omnicide - Creation Unleashed didn’t quite match the quality of Armamentarium, it was still a solid album with a great overall tone. Maintaining their unbelievably fast production speed with their fifth album in six years, Neaera is back with Forging the Eclipse, an album that keeps them at the top of the heap with impressive new styles and overall performance.“The Forging” marks the first time Neaera has opened an album with an instrumental, and is only the third instrumental of the band’s career. That and the inclusion of a second instrumental, “Certitude”, are the only major changes in the structuring of the album from its two predecessors. Forging the Eclipse has the same excellent structural flow as Armamentarium, with each song’s ending creating the right atmosphere and tone for the beginning of the next song. Similarly, it maintains an even pace and a consistent energy level from one song to the next, slowly building up to a huge climax towards the end of the album. This is very similar to the arrangement of Omnicide - Creation Unleashed, which had the same level of consistency and stability pervading the entire album. These two factors are concrete proof of Neaera’s desire to maintain their level of skill and improve their technique from one album to the next. Forging the Eclipse shows their ability to remain at the same high level without dropping off, which is a definite step on the desired path....full text |
| Hangout.altsounds |
| Neaera are a five piece death metal band from Munster, Germany. Their latest release Forging the Eclipse is their fifth album and is quite a formidable effort indeed. Let me start off by clearing up a few things about my stance on death metal/grind core. I’m not a huge fan of growling vocals, but if the music carries loads of evil grooves and there is some melody in the guitar work I’m fine with it. The music, for me, is the most important thing. If you are a death/grind core band and you give me quickly hashed together music with little melody or grooves you are likely to get a bad review. End of discussion. With that being said, Neaera is a band that blew me away. Their music is bursting with evil, sinister, head banging grooves and there is a such a strong melody in their guitar work. Musically, they remind me of classic death metal acts such as Death and Pestilence from the late 1980’s / early 1990’s. They also remind of early Sepultura and classic Slayer. There are so many warp speed, whiplash bringing riffs that slowly morph into some of the most sinister, hellish grooves on the planet....full text |
| Thenewreview |
| Launching their fifth album in five years, this German based quintet has been steadily pumping out new material since they inked their lives over to Metal Blade Records in 2005. Soaked in melodic death metal, this German based metal act has been producing a solid stream of classic metal songs since their inception in 2003. Formerly known as The Ninth Gate, Neaera has been dominating the masses with their own breed of death metal, very reminiscent of early Caliban and Heaven Shall Burn. Their latest album, Forging the Eclipse, hits shelves on October 22nd and like all good things, their reign as a European powerhouse in the metal community has seemingly come to an end. Forging your band’s sound and rooting it deeply in melodic death metal is no easy task. For most of Neaera’s career they have done a decent job walking the thin line between melodic death and metalcore; however, it seems their latest effort is the final stone that tips the scale, and certainly not in the listener’s favor. Gone from their sound is the passion and more gritty edge that fans have come to know and love. Replacing it is this over polished, overtly one dimensional song writing that seems more like an As I Lay Dying recycle than some of the more respectable bands that they previously aligned themselves with. Now don’t get me wrong, Neaera’s Forging the Eclipse starts off strong. Tracks such as “Heaven’s Descent,” “In Defiance” and “Arise Black Vengeance” have the intensity to get any head banging; however, the problem is this release isn’t a quick five song E.P. but rather a twelve-track full length album, and more often then not I find myself hitting the skip button. With most songs not even hitting the four-minute mark these little “ditties” are over before you know it, not allowing for any creativity or song development. What’s left is a twelve-song album that doesn’t even touch the forty-minute mark and drunkenly stumbles through verse-chorus song structures heavily laden with breakdowns that most garage bands could pull off with relative ease....full text |
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