Aeonik – The Roamer of Heaven and Hell
Release Date: 30th April 2026
Label: Fetzner Death
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Genre: Melodic Black Metal
FFO: Frozen Dawn, Sacramentum, Dissection.
Review By: Aeons Burning
I always try to give new bands a fair shake. Aeonik are one of those bands, and while I know they have a real willingness to stand out from the countless amount of melodic black metal bands peddling dime-a-dozen records, they unfortunately fall quite short of the mark on debut record The Roamer of Heaven and Hell. There’s simply nothing that distinguishes Aeonik from any other run-of-the-mill band in this sound on this record, and while I’m listening to it, I’d rather be listening to anything else. And the worst part is that Aeonik don’t actively make bad songs, they just make boring songs.
For something to make me really hate it, I prefer it to be entertainingly awful, such as Magnadur or Thorgrim, but records that are simply boring are the worst kinds of music to listen to, just because you want it to be over more than anything else. In Aeonik’s case, it’s the latter, and part of the problem is how much melodic black metal I’ve consumed over the years. I’ve lapped up every kind of melodic black metal under the sun in my 12 years as an extreme metal fan, and Aeonik unfortunately play the same style of riffs I’ve heard before countless times, and at this point it’s just tiring. All the songs on The Roamer of Heaven and Hell are competently written, but there’s such a lack of originality to them that it begs the question of even bothering with a listen unless your favorite genre of metal is melodic black metal.
I don’t like giving negative or middling scores, but sometimes it’s necessary. Aeonik had the chance to write something impactful and they chose to write an incredibly boring, forgettable record that will only appeal to the most diehard of diehard melodic black metal stans. I hope this is just a debut issue, because they haven’t been around that long and are most likely finding their sound, but there have been much better melodic black metal records released recently that Aeonik could take a lesson or three from. As for me, I’ll stick to classics and hope that with time Aeonik improves, because this debut is honestly quite the disappointment, unless all you listen to is melodic black metal.
(2 / 5)
