FALL OF THE GREY WINGED ONE Aeons Of Dreams CD (Supernal) 11.98Heavy-as-magma powerdrone ooze from Stijn Van Cauter, the same guy behind the funereal ambient doom of Until Death Overtakes Me. Originally released as a CD-R on Stijn's own label in 2002, Aeons Of Dreams has now been re-issued on actual CD, and fans of all things dark, heavy, droney, and noisy need rejoice. Fall Of The Grey Winged One is essentially focused around jet-black veins of buzzsaw drone that Stijn liberates from his bass guitar, and some of the crunchy, blown-speaker rumble on this hour-plus disc massages our lobes perfectly. As each track evolves though, sparkling keyboards appear to hover over the monolithic dirge-noise, haunting strains of cosmic electronics floating through the abyss. On the final track, "Locked", a super slow, plodding industrial rhythm precedes the bass-drones like some ancient behemoth lumbering beneath the earth, while sorrowful organs begin to ooze out some eerie funeral melody. This CD reminds us of Sunn O))) and Earth, obviously...particularly Sunn O)))'s OO Void and Earth's most droniest, 2, largely due to the ultra heavy tectonic amplifier drift that serves as the centerpiece for most of this album. But those bass guitar drones get so blown out, especially on the second track, that it starts to crumble like a mix between the recent meta-metal outings from Skullflower/Mirag, Black Boned Angel, Myrtu, and all of that killer Battlecruiser ambient death drone stuff, and frozen, Cold Meat Industries style death industrial. Totally apocalyptic and subterranean. Recommended!