Fen / De Arma - Towards the Shores of the End
I’ve heard of Bill Steer saving his best riffs for Carcass, but I have never heard of a band saving their best material for an obscure split with a nobody band mere days after putting out a brand new, highly anticipated full length album. Granted, the Epoch material has grown on me somewhat since my review, but it took an awful lot of listening. The songs here are more in the vein of The Malediction Fields, instantly likable Agalloch worship with soothing suicidal melodies. I just can’t get over how superior these four tracks (one being an instrumental acoustic piece) are to the full-length. Speaking of “superior to,” Swedish one-man band De Arma makes his recorded debut as the other half of the split. Not the smartest move to make getting blown away by your splitmates your first impression. Very stylistically similar to Fen except not good. This is a side project of the one-time bassist of kvlt Black Metallers Armagedda. I really liked their Final War Approaching LP back in 2001, which is coincidentally the nicest thing I can say about De Arma. Someone really should’ve told him that he can’t sing. All Fen here.
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