Avian
From The Depths Of Time

Listening to an album like "From the depths of time" naturally raises the question: to what level of stupidity can man reach? Why not revise a work that falls apart on all sides?

I don't know (and I don't believe) if the members of Avian asked themselves this question, but judging by the final result, I think it hasn't affected them in the slightest. Yet, I approached them with all the good intentions possible, almost entirely convinced I could listen to good modern heavy metal: both the presence of Lance King behind the microphone (already a singer of bands such as Pyramaze and Balance of Power) and the good David Ellefson on bass (for those who don't know, a stable member of Megadeth) had piqued my curiosity. It was for this reason, for these figures, that I approached "From the depths of time" with hope, only to be deeply disappointed by an album that is absolutely useless from all perspectives. An insipid pot of powerful yet inconclusive riffs, a succession of songs all similar to one another and full of an all-too-familiar stench.

It's the new course of heavy metal that probably generates albums of this type: aware that someone will buy them anyway, economic factors advance and surpass professional ones, so that the final result isn't so much about playing a genre that is liked and needs to be liked, but rather about filling pockets with studio albums, even if one then wonders how many people have purchased an album of this kind...

"From the depths of time," as you may have guessed, is a work to distinctly stay away from. Out of the 13 tracks that make up the album, only one/two are listenable, that is, they barely reach sufficiency. I'm talking about "Single blade of vengeance" and "Blinding force", while the rest is trash of the worst kind, where even King's otherwise admirable voice becomes unbearable.

As a good lover of heavy, I hope that albums of this magnitude do not see the light anymore, but reality then turns into a bitter realization when one realizes that works of this type have now overflowed into the music market, in many cases destroying what was once one of the cornerstone genres of the music of the '80s.

1. "Through The Past And Into Forever" (0:47)
2. "As The World Burns" (5:12)
3. "Black Masquerade" (4:54)
4. "The Fear" (4:19)
5. "Final Frontier" (5:09)
6. "Across The Millions" (1:14)
7. "Time And Space Part I: City Of Peace" (6:02)
8. "Single Blade Of Vengeance" (4:44)
9. "Blinding Force" (4:51)
10. "Time Is All We Need" (4:47)
11. "Queen Of The Insane" (6:08)
12. "Last Moon" (1:31)
13. "The Depths Of Time" (5:21)