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UK-based atmospheric black metal outfit Fen has revealed a fierce video for "Scouring Ignorance", the first single of its forthcoming album Monuments To Absence, scheduled for release on 7 July.
Fen's mastermind Frank "The Watcher" Allain states: "We originally wanted to pen a piece from a perspective of strength and self-actualization, addressing the idea of literally scouring ignorance from the world through determination and drive. We swiftly became aware of the futility of such a notion and instead, 'Scouring Ignorance' confronts ignorance itself as an almost tangible force - an infectious, quasi-elemental power that sweeps across our reality. Enlightenment, reason, empathy, and rationality are scoured from thought by the corrosive nature of ignorance itself, willingly embraced by the hapless herds that infest this world. This is a more realistic way to address the manifestations of ignorance swirling around us, reflected in the feverish gaze of foaming-mouthed demagogues and lapped up by the multitudes of the witless. Accompanied by one of our most intense compositions to date and placing the piece as the opener of the album we feel is a defiant and determined statement".
That Monuments To Absence is undoubtedly Fen's most extreme recording to date does not mean the band has abandoned its atmospheric glory with spatial-clean sections, heaving doom, and full-blown riffs, augmenting this furious expression of despairing rage. Monuments To Absence marks Fen's welcome return to a blacker and harsher sound. Red-hot anger runs strong in the East Anglians this time. Crank up the volume, and check on the "Scouring Ignorance" video! Link
Monuments To Absence tracklist:
1. Scouring Ignorance
2. Monuments to Absence
3. Thrall
4. To Silence and Abyss We Reach
5. Truth Is Futility
6. Eschaton's Gift
7. Wracked
8. All Is Lost
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