With their latest opus "Obsidian Katabasis" Italian doom metal cult FUOCO FATUO have implemented their most towering, suffocating, darkest and most abstract work yet.
Following up their massive 2017 release “Backwater” which saw the band morph into a more monstrous entity by heightening their doom metal paradigm into more funeral-like realms where their sound became more amalgamous with the likes of such luminaries as Disembowelment, Tyranny, and Esoteric, “Obsidian Katabasis” sees FUOCO FATUO venture even further into the otherworldly obscure undiscovered dimension. Elements of a dreadful nature which find cohesion for a rich and thick sound that manifests into a visionary descent though multi-layered guitars, skullcrushing low tuned chords and sepulchral tremolos filtered through analog sounds for wider landscapes marred with obsessive drumming and infernal growls.
Track Listing:
1. Obsidian Bulwark (Creation of the Absurd)
2. I
3. Thresholds of Nonexistence Through Eerie Aeon
4. II
5. Psychoactive Katabasis
6. III
Artist: FUOCO FATUO
Title: Obsidian Katabasis (2xLP)
Label: Profound Lore Records
Catalog No.: PFL-254LP
Release Date: April 02, 2020
UPC:
843563134849 (BLACK VINYL)
843563134856 (GALAXY VINYL)
FUOCO FATUO was born in 2011, in the middle of the ghastly lakes of Varese, Italy. Starting out as an occult and oppressive death/doom band with an eerie and gloomy atmosphere, their debut LP “The Viper Slithers In The Ashes Of What Remains”, which followed several EPs, was an exploration of the darkest and most desolate spaces through a sickened development of sound, making it like a flood of impenetrable black magma.
Their new album “Backwater” is a massive and suffocating funeral doom opus, the distressing awareness of the nothingness, transcending in the oblivion, and feeding on the black void. The relationship between state of mind and nature, the desolation and vast sense of distance are the main themes. An introspective, mournful journey, deeply rooted into the unknown.
Tracklist:
1. Sulphureous Hazes
2. Rainfall Of Debris
3. Perpetual Apochaos
4. Nemesis
Label: Profound Lore Records
Media type: CD 6-Panel Digipack
Release date: April 7, 2017
Genre: Death/Doom