PERTURBATOR’s sixth and final album, *Age of Aquarius* – James Kent’s first for the renowned metal label Nuclear Blast – offers a more propulsive spin on his earlier, gloomier work, presenting his most confident, beautiful, and thematically refined music to date. Whereas his previous album, *Lustful Sacraments* (2021), dealt with bad habits and addiction, *Age of Aquarius* explores how individualism, conflict, and warfare are dominant and interconnected societal forces. Both brutal and sublime, the album resonates as the musical equivalent of a scream into the existential void.