If you’re looking for “a cyber-saturated mix of guitar dirt and retro-futuristic atmosphere”, this is the place to come. The style is described as “post avant space metal. Agima Sun are from Poland but when you’re dealing with humanity as a whole, then I guess nationality is not important.
The drum beats with constant menace. The distorted vocals echo in deathly fashion. The instrumentals present a terrible picture. The style is industrial. There’s post metal in there somewhere but this is the stuff of nightmares. Even so “Glitch Engel” pitches along purposefully and with great authority. This leads to the growly bass and frightening cries of “Lvster Lvx”. A soft voice comes in. I’d say it has an air of Pink Floyd about it but all the while there’s the post-industrial horror going on. It doesn’t stand still, ending with a silky acoustic passage before the sombre and moody “Ghost Assembly” begins. The vocalist roars, enhancing the lush instrumental performance. Post-metal chords come in, but there is so much going on here: the patient guitar line, the roaring vocal and a sad underscore. Above all its powerful and confronting. “Stormlords Hex” takes us into strange places, musically speaking. Agima Sun are not afraid in any way to switch direction, but do it very well and in such a way that there is a flow in the songs.
Darkness never goes away but Agima Sun’s rhythms can be bright just as there is the sense of the world crashing around us. Behind all this there’s an electric storm going on, as we hear in the keyboard-led “Deliverance”. The drummer provides the hypnosis while an enticing rhythm strikes up. The vocalist comes in, and this magnetic piece slides into further darkness, progressing post-metal style but with the ethereal atmosphere that Agima Sun expertly create. The tempo is upped, and the fury of “Deliverance” can be felt. Ferocity is present once more on “Illusion City”, another industrial post-metal trip through various interesting and disturbing soundscapes. But again it moves forward purposefully and menacingly. The machine is switched on and active. Explosively the power picks up. It’s impressive. Ghastly moans can be heard discreetly behind the irrepressible forward-driving instrumentals. And then it ends without fuss or climax.
“Ultra Fiction” is full of interesting and clever patterns, and knit them together well. Atmospheric, crunching and ferocious, the journey that Agima Sun take us on is a colourful one.
(8.5/10 Andrew Doherty)
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