According to their bio this band began as punk/ska outfit, after dissolving that first project they began to play nu metal and now with a new name (they were previously known as Sphere) comes a new style, sludge metal.

Resurrection is a short 3 song Ep that has a nice groove but fails to really show the essence of the band, sometimes flirting with a mid tempo death metal, meanwhile trying to develop an aggressive sludge sound that lacks of a true “spirit”; you know many sludge metal bands come from the US and I’m not saying some countries are better than others playing any particular style is just that in the American sludge sound there is a big presence of cultural perceptions and elements, a country smell we can call it, and that gives those bands a “heavier feeling”, ok it’s not that I’m demanding from this Brits to actually star adding banjos to their music, Allerjen songs have potential is just that they are missing that tiny little piece of personality that could make they “special” or “unique”.

The first track “Resurrection” is a mid tempo sludge track but with a death metal vocal approach rather than the more usual hardcore display, the song and the album has a nice dry drum blow, a lot of groove by the end of the song.

“Beyond the promised land” has those “stop and go” tempos that may become a little annoying as you see that the song doesn’t really grow from them, they are there just to increase the expectations and not for a more constructive purpose.

“Courage will find you” is the best track on the EP, is powerful, full of groove and with a very thrashy sound; this song grows on every riff, going through some fast passages that end up building up a monotonous segment that makes you wanna go back to the fast part, which it does.

Allerjen shows on this EP that they can create some fun sludge metal, that they can create intricate and heavy melodies, but they still have to work on exactly what is going to make them a band and not a project.