When an artist says they are fusing many styles of metal together you frequently are lift with a directionless mess. It feels like the opposite is true of Firtan. While their sound certainly seems to flirt with everything from 90s black metal to doom by way of death metal and even post rock, their new album Ethos is a wonderfully thoughtful and dense offering that seems to draw listeners in with each and every song. It's triumphant, gorgeously put together extreme metal that sets the band in a league of their own with a sound that is distinctly and profoundly theirs.
There is a pointed vision behind this record and Firtan easily swoop you into their sonic milieu. From the opening bars of Ethos it's clear that Firtan are a band like few others and their penchant for writing grandiose, larger than life songs is entrancing. This is a group who eagerly dive into the densest sides of their sound and who seem comfortable unveiling layers of volume and destruction couched within profound beauty. This is metal done with ambition and while this is certainly a thinking mans metal record, Ethos hits on a gut level too. Grab it when it drops in 10 days.
Pre-order the album!
No comments:
Post a Comment