This debut album from Essex upstarts Forever Never is 12 tracks that will at times confuse, often cause involuntary nodding, but will always challenge what you thought could be done on a metal album. This is a 21st century metal album - NOT rehashed 80's metal, and as such what you get is an album that somehow manages to seamlessly flicker from heavy, brutal and bruising riffage to a much more melodic side - a kind of melodic side that is seldom heard in modern metal. With real singing - perhaps the sort of singing that may even be associated with Soul - a paradox in itself; metal and soul? Don't get too confused though, this is not "emo" nor is it metal by numbers; this is something new and refreshing for the metal genre. This is what metal should be in the new millennium. It is an album of light and dark, positive and negative, from one extreme to another "Aporia" has technicality, heaviness and melody, but most of all it should be one that interests the listener from start to finish.
