(written by Islander)

The Polish blackened sludge metal band Fiasko gave the world the first tastes of their new album AMOK ꓘOMA through videos for two of the album tracks, “Wniwecz” (“Into Naught”) and “Sztuczne kwiaty” (“Fake Flowers).

In the first of those, Fiasko showed their current colors in a slow-moving display of miserably moaning and wailing melody, backed by gut-punching percussive blows — and then they shock the listener with a sudden detonation of blasting drums, frantically swarming riffage (which still sounds dismal but vastly more deranged), and furious screams.

In that typhoon surge of sound you can still detect the grim opening melody, but it has been spun up into something substantially more frightening, and as the riffing evolves, it becomes both more feverishly unhinged and more disturbingly agonized. Even the sudden singing sounds emotionally shattered, elevating into screams again. Continue reading »