Hello Metalheads! This is John back with another album review! This time I have Erasure of Color by Aversed which was released in March 21st, 2025 via M-Theory Audio. This was one album that I totally missed when it was released but I really like!
This Boston, Massachusetts based band brings a really great progressive and melodic brand of death metal. They almost have a metalcore influence to their music at certain points, which may scare death metal heads away, but it’s implemented in such good ways! For example the during Cross to Bear after the guitar solo. It transitions from this quiet build up into the chorus which is reminiscent of certain metalcore attributes. I just love how they fuse so elements of both genres together and go back and forth from them.
I often have a hard time nailing down which track is my favorite, but I think that Solitary is it on this album. It starts off with this soft and subdued mellow groove with cleaning singing, which slowly builds into a straight ahead growl lead verse. The chorus has this fairly dissonant guitar drone which just sits in the back of the mix, while the lead is playing a melodic part. Such a cool effect to add to the uneasiness of the track.
So in my eyes Erasure of Color gets an easy 8/10. Aversed really brought some really good proggy death metal/metalcore for all to us all to hear. As always don’t forget to stream and even buy their music!
https://music.apple.com/us/album/erasure-of-color/1788970812
https://open.spotify.com/album/0t1VHGEQVoSHPq9R4f4USf?si=gaU7k-CWSRie0nZYxsJQ6Q
https://aversed.bandcamp.com/album/erasure-of-color
https://youtube.com/channel/UC177YMuSscprQxcx6xvgXiA?si=ghGuWryEGrD6lUxz
https://www.instagram.com/aversedmetal?igsh=cDFwNDJ3NzBhMWdi
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