[Heavy News] Avant-garde Death/Black Band FELGRAVE Premiere New Song at No Clean Singing.
Felgrave (Norway) - Otherlike Darknesses (Avantgarde Death/Black/Doom Metal)
Felgrave's music on this album is something else entirely.
It's an intriguing and challenging melange of various extreme metal styles that will make you keep coming back to it for better understanding. It's not often that you get 18-min songs of such intricacy. No Clean Singing premiered their important title track which can be found AT THIS LINK.
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► "going to stand out when we recall the finest works that the year had thrown our way" - Head-Banger Reviews
https://headbangerreviews.com/2025/02/25/felgrave-otherlike-...
► "Felgrave has reached that summit and it sounds amazing" - Extreme Metal Maniac
https://extrememetalmaniacblog.blogspot.com/2025/02/felgrave...
After dropping a well-received death/doom album five years back, Felgrave has crafted an ingenious album melding influences of doom, black and death metal in a way rarely done before. The one-man band has broken the mould and the music on this album flows in an intuitive, undulating, almost whimsical manner, touching upon several styles and effortlessly shape shifting through them all.
The songs are between 12 to 18 minutes long and each one seems to tell a tale of its own. There is so much going on in each song that it demands repeated listens which isn't necessarily arduous because of the smooth transitions and the overall coherency. The sound is strangely all encompassing - there are acoustic passages with clean vocals as well as intense and complex parts that wouldn't be out of place on a technical death metal album.
It's stuff like this which makes this album fascinating, and what makes it come alive is the passion with which it is meticulously crafted - it seeps through the music and elevates it beyond the ostensible stringing together of disparate parts. Otherlike Darknesses is multi-faceted and yet has a fairly cohesive sound with exceptional song writing; albums like these definitely don't come out too often.
Lineup:
Vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards and programming by M. L. Jupe
Drums by Robin Stone (Evilyn, Norse)
Mixed by M. L. Jupe
Mastered by Brendan Sloan (Convulsing)
Artwork by Adam Burke (Artificial Brain, Plasmodium)
Tracklisting:
1. Winds Batter My Keep
2. Pale Flowers Under an Empty Sky
3. Otherlike Darknesses
Release date - April 25th, 2025
