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artist: Fane
title: Armageddon Scars
year: 2026
genre: Metal
type: Album
label: Argonauta Records
language: English
rel. date: 2026-08-28
source: WEB/MP3
quality: CBR 320kbps / 44.1 kHz / Joint Stereo
runtime: 00:33:14
size: 76.2 MiB / 5 tracks
rip date: 2026-08-28
source url: https://open.qobuz.com/album/ilf2vry62eftk
tracklist:
01. Flatline 8:44
02. Dead Shepherd 4:42
03. Poisoned Crown 4:55
04. The Mariner 7:50
05. Passages 7:04
release notes:
Doom/Sludge Metal duo FANE debut album Armageddon Scars creates a brutal
and emotionally engaging style of music that ventures into similar waters
of bands such as THOU, Primitive Man, YOB and Neurosis. The brooding
atmospherics has plenty of heavy progressive weight that powers the
DRONED OUT dimension that is added at different stages of the record.
There are hidden traces of Punk, Black Metal and some small instances of
Death Metal which gives Armageddon Scars quite a violent and hypnotic
sound from the very start.
The opening track Flatline allows FANE to demonstrate some subversive
levels of Doom Metal that allows the listener to fully lose themselves
within the Sludge Metal textures that become more accustomed to the
Post-Metal world. The vocals from Ryan Ashmore are delivered with a grim
extreme and menacing style that has a solid HARSH and THUGGISH energy to
them. FANE are never afraid to explore the dominant Black Metal
environments which offer crushing, violent and destructive instrumental
grooves that last the course and where any uplifting soundscapes are
wisely banished from existence here.
Second track Dead Shepherd only solidifies the eternal DOOM & GLOOM
message that FANE project throughout the album with punishing Post-Metal
sounds and some brief Psychedelic interludes that offer a dramatic
feeling to emerge from the darkness. Trey Porche has his work cut out
providing all the Instrumental and Programming aspect for FANE to devour
everyone's soul with. This is a great counterbalance with Ryan's vocals,
perhaps opening the gateway for that brutal and monolithic style of music
to explore the darkest corners of the whole album.
Third track Poisoned Crown follows a similar path to the previous track
but operates with a simpler riff based structure without compromising the
violent progressive sounds that have already been set out from the start.
FANE delivers the most straightforward grooves that have that classic YOB
influence behind them. The extra layer of Psych Metal just pushes the
album into different sonic based arenas whilst keeping that Blackened
Post-Metal atmosphere fully intact.
The final two tracks The Mariner and Passages bring a different aura of
darkness from FANE with that Progressive sound adding abstract
soundscapes and Ambient sound effects for perhaps the best part of the
album. FANE feel more determined to forge their own identity with these
two tracks with tighter vocals and better instrumental control whilst
punishing the listeners yet again with an intense blast of pure
Doom/Sludge Metal brutality.
Armageddon Scars is quite subversive and superbly inventive with the
Ambient Sounds and Psych Metal effects which allows FANE to never lose
focus on releasing an epic sounding deb
Not to be confused with other bands with same name.
https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Fane/3540553239