Recorded by : JeF Fortin
Album Artwork : Pascal Laquerre
All Music and Lyrics : Aeternam
Ruins of Empires’ is Aeternam’s third full length record since forming in 2007. The band themselves hail from Canada and lean heavily towards a middle eastern influence in the same vein as Melechesh and Orphaned Land. It’s really well put together and it easily keeps your attention, the inclusion of choirs and an assortment of Middle Eastern instruments I personally am not familiar with play a big part in that. Aeternam’s particular brand of metal is a mix of Melo-Death and a touch of power metal. All these different elements meld together nicely to form more of symphonic death metal kind of sound.