Fen

FEN are climbing to a new artistic height by coming down to earth with their eighth full-length "Elemental Part One: Mourning Earth".

The East Anglian trio has turned to their roots in every sense, distilling the true essence of their sound through everything they have learned and added in the last two decades. While the previous album, "Monuments to Absence" (2023), was deliberately arranged dense, fast and intense, FEN decided to leave breathing space on this album to allow more time for themes and ideas to exhale and unfurl.

Lyrically, FEN sum up the basic idea behind "Elemental Part One: Mourning Earth" in their own poetic words: "The morning mists clearing over the boggy expanses of the fens to reveal another grey, gloom-laden day of sorrow and regret. And at twilight, the slow, sad realisation that tomorrow promises only more of the same – tormented by the half-heard whispers of the spirits bound to the soils, our pain continues. And we can only endure."

With "Elemental Part One: Mourning Earth", FEN have reached a new pinnacle in their career and achieved a balance between their black metal foundations and post-black metal innovations. They take the listener on a journey to grim bogs, languid waterways, and dismal fogs over bare rock, with a sense of surcease on the other side.