Experimental black metal band FARSOT will release its long-awaited third album, FAIL·LURE, on April 21 via Prophecy Productions / Lupus Lounge. Produced by V. Santura (Triptykon, Secrets Of The Moon), FAIL·LURE merges FARSOT's avant-garde songwriting with original black metal arrangements and a dynamism that could only come from one of the world's most ambitious underground bands. In advance of the LP's release, Invisible Oranges debuts the new FARSOT track "With Obsidian Hands", adding that the band's upcoming album "sounds immaculate." Hear FARSOT's "With Obsidian Hands" at THIS location.
Loudwire has also premiered FARSOT's new video "The Antagonist", noting that,"Farsot's volleying tempos explore pounding, ritualistic rhythms, forceful gallops and revolving drums, with each moment's mood embodied by an increasingly engaged clan of nefarious, white-masked, black-robed figures." See FARSOT's "The Antagonist" video now at THIS location.
A blend of "failure" and "allure", FAIL·LURE is conceptually inspired by the critically acclaimed Peter Greenaway film, "Drowning by Numbers", which won the award for Best Artistic Contribution at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival, as well as Art Nouveau works such as Khnopff's "Ishtar", Klimt's "Water Serpents", Kotarbinski's "Kiss of Medusa" and Schwabe's "La Vague". The record's album art features a sculpture by French artist Denis Lavoyer that depicts a female idealized with threatening, claw-like branches for arms, addressing the inevitable dilemma between fascination and mania and seeming rifts between the sexes; it is an allegory of life as an endless game that cannot be won.
More in line with FARSOT's heralded debut "||||" (2007) than its predecessor 'Insects' (2011), FAIL·LURE musically mashes the feelings of failure (the act or instance of failing or proving unsuccessful) and allure (the quality of being powerfully and mysteriously attractive or fascinating) to create a soundtrack to delusion, desire, disgust, power, weakness, winners, losers, crime, punishment, man and woman and life and death.
Track listing:
1.) Vitriolic
2.) Circular Stains
3.) With Obsidian Hands (Invisible Oranges premiere)
4.) Undercurrents
5.) The Antagonist (Loudwire VIDEO premiere)
6.) A Hundred To Nothing
Pre-order FAIL·LURE at this location.
With a single demo titled, 042103Freitod, FARSOT reimagined the boundaries of raw and cold black Metal in 2004, and with their debut album "IIII" they enriched the genre with their crushing visions of the human psyche and its dark depths. 2012's Insects alternated between unpredictability and catchiness, showcasing the band's mastery of dynamics and mood. Now, FARSOT return with FAIL·LURE, its most ambitious and focused record to date.
FAIL·LURE will be released on CD in Arigato-Pac (with die-cut cover), as gatefold 2xLP, 2xCD book (18x18cm, 60 pages, incl. liner notes to all songs and additional photography) as well as complete box set (with gatefold 2xLP, 2xCD book, music video and art prints). Gatefold 2xLP and 2xCD book will also contain the audio bonus track, 'Watertower Conspiracy', a 20 minute ambient work by G.B. / ColdWorld, which adapts motifs from all of the FAIL·LURE album tracks.
Find FARSOT online:
https://www.farsot.de/
https://www.facebook.com/farsot.official/
