Fen präsentieren ihre nächste Vorab-Single Massif, die aus dem kommenden Album Elemental Part One: Mourning Earth der Post-Black-Metal-Urgesteine aus East Anglia stammt. Die Veröffentlichung ist für den 21. August 2026 geplant.
Der überaus dynamische und epische Song Massif offenbart die tiefen Wurzeln der Band in der spezifisch englischen Spielart des Black Metal, während er sich allmählich von atmosphärischen, cineastischen Akustikklängen zu einem wilden, unbändigen Ungetüm wandelt.
Fen kommentieren: „As the first of a two-part centrepiece song on the album, Massif speaks of the rearing, jagged splendour of upheaved bedrock and the unforgiving nature of the mountain range„, erklärt Mastermind Frank „The Watcher“ Allain. „There is no mercy here – no surcease or yielding to the procession of ages – and in this, we see reflected back at us not only the inconsequential nature of our own existences, but the utterly uncaring nature of the reality in which we find ourselves. The cold rock of the Massif cares not whether we live, die, or ever existed in the first place. Musically, the song sets out slowly, quiet tones slithering towards us, akin to the first whisper of the chill winds that wreathe the slopes. It builds as we approach, the leaden skies and blackened crags rendered in huge chords and desperate screams. And then – the breath of ages, forced into the throats of sorrow. On the album, the ending shifts into the beginning of the second part without a break.“
Mehr Informationen zu Fen‚s kommenden Album Elemental Part One: Mourning Earth findet ihr hier.
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