Fen - Working On New Album
British atmospheric post-black metallers Fen have announced that work on what will be their fourth full-length album has begun and is progressing well. As things stand, the band anticipates that it will be ready for release towards October/November of this year. The as yet untitled album will be a follow up to 2013's Dustwalker, and will once again be released on Aural Music's Code666 label.
Fen's frontman Frank "The Watcher" Allain commented: "Our new work will be darker and more intense. Invoking a spectrum of atmospheres from the unknowable coldness of distant stars to the blood and earth that thrums beneath our feet. This record takes the approach we started on Dustwalker and builds on it further, whilst simultaneously acknowledging the more obscure-sounding roots of our debut. Bleaker, harder, yet at the same time more ambient, this record moves us further away from the accepted tropes of what post black metal should sound like in 2014."
Fen's frontman Frank "The Watcher" Allain commented: "Our new work will be darker and more intense. Invoking a spectrum of atmospheres from the unknowable coldness of distant stars to the blood and earth that thrums beneath our feet. This record takes the approach we started on Dustwalker and builds on it further, whilst simultaneously acknowledging the more obscure-sounding roots of our debut. Bleaker, harder, yet at the same time more ambient, this record moves us further away from the accepted tropes of what post black metal should sound like in 2014."
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| CobiWan1993 Secundum Filium Posts: 1365  |
Can't wait to hear it! 
---- Ordinary men hate solitude. But the Master makes use of it, embracing his aloneness, realizing he is one with the whole universe (Lao Tzu).
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| Ab.Victor عرص Posts: 52  |
Not another Dustwalker 
---- Stab me with hate Enforce my fate Pain's my belonging To death I am longing The death I desire The dead I admire See no more illusion Just thy persecution So finish your work Stab me with fork Torture with knife End useless life Slit all my wrists
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| Karlabos Posts: 5736  |
Written by Ab.Victor on 22.06.2014 at 02:28 Nope. The new work will be darker and more intense. Invoking a spectrum of atmospheres from the unknowable coldness of distant stars to the blood and earth that thrums beneath our feet.
---- "Aah! The cat turned into a cat!" - Reimu Hakurei
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| Hallford9000 Posts: 242  |
Give me a penny every time a metal band says that the new album will be darker...
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| tea[m]ster Au Pays Natal Contributor Posts: 5266  |
Written by Ab.Victor on 22.06.2014 at 02:28 Why not? I for one hope the make 5 more Dustwalkers...
---- rekt
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| Karlabos Posts: 5736 |
Written by tea[m]ster on 22.06.2014 at 03:45 Listen to Dustwalker 5 times then =)
---- "Aah! The cat turned into a cat!" - Reimu Hakurei
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| tea[m]ster Au Pays Natal Contributor Posts: 5266 |
Written by Karlabos on 22.06.2014 at 04:10 LoL. Good one asspipe Seriously, I love Dustwalker and the direction Fen is taking.
---- rekt
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Written by tea[m]ster on 22.06.2014 at 04:14 Yeah, to be honest I would also be OK if Fen took a similar direction to Dustwalker. It was actually a lot better than I remembered when I went back to it a few weeks ago. It sounds like they are going to be influenced by their debut album as well from what I've read online, which wouldn't be a bad thing if they're looking to attract some members of their earlier fanbase.
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| mz Posts: 4825  |
"this record moves us further away from the accepted tropes of what post black metal should sound like in 2014" Well this makes me happy.
---- Giving my ears a rest from music.
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| Ab.Victor عرص Posts: 52 |
Written by Karlabos on 22.06.2014 at 04:10 Dustwalker was fine album i didn't say it was bad But The Malediction Fields was a masterpiece and it will never happen again 
---- Stab me with hate Enforce my fate Pain's my belonging To death I am longing The death I desire The dead I admire See no more illusion Just thy persecution So finish your work Stab me with fork Torture with knife End useless life Slit all my wrists
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| Diverge Posts: 1334 |
Written by Ab.Victor on 22.06.2014 at 10:57 Some parts of that album, especially the clean vocals, are embarrassing and truly horrid; the Walker's cleans improved dramatically in Epoch and again in Dustwalker. Fen definitely improved their songwriting with their last two albums, and the view that The Malediction Fields is a masterpiece is still a little surprising to me. I'm in the minority on that one, though. I would much rather prefer the Fen that's capable of tracks like Spectre, Hand of God, The Gibbet Elms and Of Wilderness and Ruin.
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| Karlabos Posts: 5736 |
Written by tea[m]ster on 22.06.2014 at 04:14 Me too. Dustwalker was far better than Epoch imo But I thought it would be fun to make the joke anyway =P
---- "Aah! The cat turned into a cat!" - Reimu Hakurei
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| Troy Killjoy perfunctionist Staff Posts: 21306  |
Written by mz on 22.06.2014 at 10:28 It's going to be post-post-black metal.
---- "Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."
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| mz Posts: 4825 |
Written by Troy Killjoy on 22.06.2014 at 17:44 I'd like pre post black metal.
---- Giving my ears a rest from music.
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