FANGE - Purulences (2025)

With Purulences I feel it's the first time the French band from Brittany FANGE release an album so similar to the previous one. It seems they have completed their evolution, in a direction at the same time more industrial and more melodic. Stabilisation before a new evolution? Maybe, time will tell... Anyway, their Godflesh meets Paradise Lost, Morbid Angel and beatdown hardcore thing is really their own and is excellent, so I don't mind a repeat, really. Purulences is an awesome album, with songs that are bound to become classics in their live set and is highly recommended for people who enjoyed their previous albums and also a great entry point for discovering the band. 

 

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FANGE - Perdition (2024)

With Perdition, the new FANGE album, they seem to have compleated their mutation toward a sound at the same time more industrial and more polished and melodic. And whereas I really like their industrial shift, I'm not always conviced by the melodic evolution. Strangely Fange isn't really dirty anymore and sometimes they're going too much to my taste in a kind of Paradise Lost direction. I hope next album will be more abrasive. That been said the quality of their music and songwriting remains and Perdition is an excellent album anyway.

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Fange - Privation (2023)

Privation is another excellent album from Fange, keeping on developing their new industrial direction, this time with a slightly melodic feel, in a somewhat doomy post-punk vein, with melodies reminding Paradise Lost or maybe Hangman's Chair. Still with bits of NIN / Author and Punisher, and the Godfleshian beat. But my favourite moments in the album are when Morbid Angel style riffs (from Domination to Gateways) crawls in. memorable also is the singing in French that works really fine. Heavily recommended!

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My 15 favourite metal released in 2021

Here are my favourite metal releases in 2021 (happens to be mostly death metal and hardcore and a bit of sludge this time). Alphabetical order. Click on the name to go to the review.

 

Altarage - Succumb

 

Antediluvian - The Divine Punishment

 

Botanist / Thief - EP0 Cicatric - Diamond Brush

 

Eyehategod - A History of Nomadic Bahavior

 

Fange - Pantocrator

  

FLUIDS - Not Dark Yet

 

Full of Hell - Garden of Burning Apparitions

 

Mortiferum - Preserved in Torment

 

Obscura - A Valediction

 

Ophidian I - Desolate

 

Portal - Avow

 

Sanguisugabogg - Tortured Whole

 

Section H8 - Welcome to the Nightmare

  

Terminal Bliss - Brute Err/atta!

 

USA/MEXICO - Del Rio

 

 

Fange - Pantocrator (2021)

This new album from Fange is a bit less overtly industrial than their EP Poigne, but on the two long, bleak and atmospheric songs that make up Pantocrator we hear Fange at their most Godfleshian. And the result is really fine. Excellent stuff again from the sludge-death-industrial French band.

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Best of 2020 : Death, black, hardcore & sludge

 Here are my 10 favourite death metal, black metal, hardcore and sludge albums released in 2020. Alphabetical order. Click on the name to go to the review.

Cytotoxin - Nuklearth

 

Dephosphorus - Sublimation

 

Dropdead - Dropdead 

Eye Flys - Tub of Lard

Fange - Pudeur

Ils - Curse

 

Imperial Triumphant- Alphaville

Khthoniik Cerviiks - Æquiizoiikum

Oranssi Pazuzu - Mestarin Kynsi

Skeletal Remains - The Entombment of Chaos