FVNERALS - Let the Earth Be Silent (2023)

One of the best drone metal music projects at the moment, FVNERALS, released their third album called Let the Earth Be Silent. And this is a model example of a discography that delivers every time anything new sees the light of the day. Although, in this case, it's more about the darkness of the night.

The new album's theme is as bleak and depressive as it could be expected form the duo: they comment on the way the humanity impacts environment in the worst possible way, leading straight to the extinction event for countless species. FVNERALS turn "the emptiness of the void and the depth of the abyss" that was left in the place where many beings thrived, "into sound". There's no doubt that the band have all the tools necessary to deliver such a dark theme. Their drone metal soundscapes are heavier than the skies in autumn and don't get lighter even for a second of the album's run. There's not much of the metal-like anger and desperation, it is more about the bleak reality that everything is already lost. This dark, dark music is further enriched by the tribal elements and cold, emotionless vocals that appear from time to time in this blizzard of drones.

The duo is part of the impressive lineup of this year's Roadburn and it's one of the main reasons I'd go there.

Let the Earth Be Silent costs 6.99 USD.

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Country: UK

Genre: drone metal

Label: Prophecy Productions

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