Run With The Torch

Release-date: 31-10-2011
Label: Basick Records
Origin: France

Long have I been looking forward to this release (although at time of writing not yet officially released), it has surpassed even my best expectations and finds itself steady at the top of favourite releases this year.

Februus is yet another Djent album, but one that not much unlike TesseracT and Proghma-C focusses more on groove and atmosphere than sheer technical ingenuity. If you’re a fan of any of these bands, purchasing Februus should be a gut-reflex. Drawing another comparisation with TesseracT, we can’t exactly speak of songs with this release as the whole album is just one continuous experience just like the formerly mentioned’s EP Concealing Fate. From Awaken to Finale it takes you on a journey where you’ll chill, strain your neck headbanging and shiver, just like I did, seeing Uneven Structure perform an awesome set at Euroblast last weekend in Cologne, Germany amongst many of its peers.

Expect rather chugging djenty or spacey guitars or both, carried by rhythmically intense drums. An amazing vocal performance on both screams and cleans that will make the hair on your neck get up, are the cherry on the whippedcream covered cheesecake goodness that is Februus.

Pick this excellent piece of progressive, technical and atmospheric metal up the 31st of October 2011, and in the meantime stream it on Soundcloud below.