Origin:	Finland
Genres:	Doom Metal

Black Sun Aeon

This is solo project number three for Finnish workaholic Tuomas Saukkonen, who already has two not-that-dissimilar projects going in Before The Dawn and Dawn Of Solace, though whether all three are active at any given time isn't quite clear. He's pretty prolific, managing an album a year bouncing from one project to another. Black Sun Aeon, like his other two bands, is vaguely rooted in the gothic/doom/depressive metal mold, and like Dawn Of Solace, Saukkonen handles all of the music as well as at least some of the vocals. This is less gothic metal and more of a doom/death hybrid (Saukkonen supplies harsh vocals while guests provide clean singing), though this is not doomdeath in the traditional sense. The mood here is somber, meandering, and depressive, but not dreary or heavy-handed. This might be Saukkonen's most developed project yet.