Farscape

Purged And Forgotten

Now, a full decade since their last official recordings, FARSCAPE return with arguably their best album yet, Purged and Forgotten. After an eerie (and quite surprisingly melodic) intro, the fire & fury of classic Teutonic thrash is felt - and, by proxy, which they helped shape in a way most Brazilian so many years ago - but equally burning are some new, ever-so-subtle twists on that noble idiom. Without ever quite going fully "slick" nor "tech," FARSCAPE here manage to honorably defy the Teutonic template: a more pronounced emphasis on leads, alternating between the eerily melodic and the tensely harmonic; tiny touches of atmospheric synth underneath the ripping riot of violence, further emphasizing the eerie; and in Witchcaptors charismatic snarl, an equally surprising number of thinking-outside-the-box patterns as well as layering, giving Purged and Forgotten an unusual, almost-"hall of mirrors" aspect. Elsewhere, the quartets songwriting locates that sweet spot between the linear and the twisted, not quite resorting to standard verse/chorus structures nor going overboard into the overly complicated. Simply, the red-eyed & rabid rush of classic FARSCAPE is accounted for, but these discerning veterans arent short on honorable ways to wind their characteristic sound. Purged and Forgotten? Not fucking yet!

Price
€ 15.00
Genre
Format
CD - 1 disk
Release date
29-09-2023
Label
Item-nr
565977
EAN
4056813555158
Availability
In stock
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TRACKS

Disk 1

1. PURGED AND FORGOTTEN 06:26
2. LEUCOTOMY 04:14
3. THE CURSE OF THE LAST SOLSTICE
4. BACKING FROM THE HOLE
5. MISS VIOLENCE
6. CAPTIVITY OF SOULS
7. VENGEANCE OF THE FORGOTTEN