Three new songs of grim poetry in unique FURIA style. Empty words and sounds, cold as world around. Great musicianship, a lot of passion and the atmosphere of hatred and nothingness, forest prayers to fire, dance with the devil. This will surely make shivers run down your spine.
I had never heard of Furia before, but upon receiving this MCD and discovering how great it was I looked them up. And upon doing so I discovered another killer act; Massemord (Pol), whose drummer is involved in Enclave. So suddenly I had found three new acts, all absolutely killer. So for a while all I listened to were these three bands. But, the subject of the matter here should be Furia, and "Płoń" in particular.
Starting off in a raging manner you’re instantly thrown in a whirlwind of icy melodic riffing, blasting drums and a voice evil enough to invoke death in the listener. But while you’re still getting used to the brutality "Zgniję, nie odpowiem!" takes a turn for slow, harsh and agonized black metal reminiscent of Shining and the likes. It’s absolutely mesmerizing and heartfelt, and the vocals sound so torturous. And then the old school Norwegian agenda sets in with some marvelous riffs, overlaid with a melodic guitar solo. Some freakin’ nuanced shit, but still sounding extremely coherent.
All while "Ohydny jestem" has a very pagan feel, topped with the typical Eastern European ferocity in the vocals. You’re never quite sure what to expect, as the music seems to be able to take on any influence and still sound like this is the way it’s meant to be. The title track has some serious doom metal influences going on, dripping with gloom whilst an acoustic guitar takes you on a journey to your own deepest, darkest misanthropic thoughts. While the ending blasting gets my adrenaline pumping so damn much I just wanna smash something and scream along like a maniac, but I can’t since I have no freaking idea what the lyrics is about.
This is without a doubt the most overwhelming first experience I’ve had with a band in a long, long time. I can’t wait for new material to emerge as this is so full of emotions, variations and extremely potent black metal.
Sample: youtube.com/watch?v=G6_RWn7cZuM
