From their Facebook page, "Through arrogance and hubris, we have destroyed the very vessel that gave us life. Using the raw emotion of extreme metal as a base without being tethered to one subgenre, SKYLESS AEONS spew forth messages of our inevitable demise. Mixing aggressive guitar riffs with a cosmic atmosphere, we strive to capture humanity's constant struggle between conviction and hopelessness. We are past the point of saving ourselves, so might as well take solace and succumb to the void." "Drain the Sun" contains seven tracks.
"A Consciousness Decays" It opens slowly, with heavy bass guitar notes. Then, the main riff drops, and it's slow and lumbering. Closer to Death Metal than anything else, what sets it aside is the atmosphere. The dissonance is noteworthy as well. It picks up just after the half-way mark, gaining in thickness and despair. "Ascension Towards Nothing" is next. Some light atmosphere opens the sound...it's solemn and hopeless sounding. It doesn't really get going until the three-minute mark. Drums, bass, and guitars come in, softly at first, but you get the sense something big is coming. Then, the big riff drops. It's heavy, thick and menacing. A hearty vocal scream comes in around the five-minute mark. The vocals are deep and dark utterances, and take us to a slow fade-out.

"Go Forth and Multiply" is a much shorter song, opening with vocal attacks and a steady presence of guitars and drums, with a bass line that moves to fit with the riff. A guitar solo is presented, but it doesn't follow the melody line very well. "The Age of Regression" is just under eight minutes in length. Opening with clean, but doleful guitars, it moves forward slowly and with purpose. Dual lead guitars usher in some ambient moments, of just bass guitar notes and clean guitars, but that heavy and aggressive sound is right around the corner. The dissonance here is marked. "Dimensional Entrapment" features some eerie sounds to go along with the course of Death Metal. At times, the bass is naked out there by itself, and that certainly brings some variegate to the table. The guitar work here is varied as well...some heavy accents and some more traditional riffing. Here is where you get some Progressive elements as well, but I would still call this Death Metal overall.

"Path of Desolation" opens with bass guitar notes and some light drumming. It stays there for a spell, happy to draw on some atmospheric elements, painting the album out of the ordinary. Suddenly, it's as if the bass went mad, hitting the upper registers of the instrument with a heavy precision. Vocal and guitar join for the final two minutes. "Drain the Sun" closes the album, and it's an eight-minute beast. It has a more traditional Death Metal sound, but with some inventive riffing as well. Death Metal is often characterized by a lack of melody, and heavy dissonance. This is what we have in this song. Higher, angrier vocals come into play around the half-way mark, with some dancing bass guitar notes. It closes with a guitar solo.

Overall, this was touted to me as Progressive Death Metal, but I'm not sure that is entirely true. Closer to the Death Metal genre than anything else, there are moments of Progressive elements, and the atmospheres they build are unique. But, when it comes to most of the music, it's hardened and aggressive as any Death Metal should be. Still, with a bit of a unique twist, any fans of the genre will probably find this album to their liking.