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Artist......: Fane
Album.......: Armageddon Scars
Year........: 2026
Genre.......: Metal
Type........: Album
Label.......: Argonauta Records
Language....: English
Source......: WEB/FLAC (24bit)
Quality.....: 3065kbps / 96 kHz / Stereo
Tracks......: 5 tracks
Playtime....: 00:33:14
Size........: 727.0 MiB
R.Date......: 2026-08-28
S.Date......: 2026-08-28
Url.........: https://open.qobuz.com/album/ilf2vry62eftk
01. Flatline 8:44
02. Dead Shepherd 4:42
03. Poisoned Crown 4:55
04. The Mariner 7:50
05. Passages 7:04
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