Album Review: Aeges - Weightless

When you combine something such as desert stoner guitar grinds with sludgy prog breakdowns, you're automatically halfway towards pleasing '90s alt-rock fans.

Instead, Aeges have then watered down all of these elements within Weightless by stacking US hard rock radio lyrics presented in a slight post-hardcore manner alongside a feeling of completely manufactured aggression for marketability. It seems that only the lead single Another Wasteland manages to balance all of this out into something that feels cohesive and energetic, leaving everything else on the record to simply feel like a poorly reinterpreted version of Mastodon.