The music of Februus is a breath of fresh air in an overfamiliar genre. They’re innocuously opening portals to other untraversed realms within their songs and it completely changes your perspective of the style and its previously assumed limitations. What’s more, they’ve managed to keep it coherent, heavy and yes, fun. Check out a couple of songs on Bandcamp HERE.
Februus (Sweden) – Surveillance Orgy (Progressive Death Metal)
As if the recent onslaught by progressive death metal bands Diskord, Atvm, Swelling Repulsion and Defect Designer on the label wasn’t enough, Februus join the raiding party and bring the fireworks with their unheralded gem of a release in ‘Surveillance Orgy’. Originally self-released by the sole band member, it blew away every unsuspecting listener who chanced upon it. There are only five songs on the album, the shortest one being three minutes and the longest one touching almost 15 minutes, and it’s clear that their expression can’t be confined by anything trivial of that sort. They seem to warp through time, nay, dimensions in the multiverse going by how often the music takes sudden, unexpected detours within each of the songs. The experience is unparalleled; the progressions are highly unpredictable and the manner in which they hurtle through them is both dizzying and exhilarating, all the while maintaining a sufficient heaviness worthy of the death metal tag. This is an album that transports the listener not to a particular place but all fucking over. And those adventurous enough will only strap in tighter, for albums like these are as rare as a cosmic event occurring only once every few decades.
For fans of – Edge of Sanity, Pan-Thy-Monium, Carbonized, Morbus Chron, Disharmonic Orchestra, Afflicted, Swelling Repulsion, Floating
Line up:
Andreas Karlsson – All vocals, guitar, bass, electronic sounds and drum programming
Mixing by Andreas Karlsson
Mastering by Mattias Persson
Cover painting, layout and logo by Daniel Karlsson
Track listing:
1. Gentrification of the Soul 07:06
2. Morning Star over Deathlehem 08:25
3. The Price of Enterprise 03:13
4. Surveillance Orgy 08:01
5. Resignation Syndrome 14:25
Official release date – July 19th, 2024