What the Five Fingers said to the Face – Endless
Origin: Oslo / Norway
Release: 23.02.2023
Label: self-publishing
Duration: 45:43
Genre: Progressive Metal
If the music is bulky, the band name itself can certainly be too. What the Five Fingers said to the Face are a Progressive Metal project from Oslo, Norway, which has it all. The band, which in the meanwhile twelfth year of its existence has been able to complete one or the other live presence, is now releasing the album that fans have been eagerly awaiting Endless on the shelves, which will initially be published in purely digital form.
Well, what can be expected from a progressive metal band that fans of Tool, Opeth or Meshuggah want to address? Definitely bulky song structures as well as mantra-like guitar lines that rise above the majestic rhythm work in an unbelievable calm.
Impact meets majestic calm
Above all, this calm, which gives the music a tremendous impact, makes it Endless so special. You don’t let yourself be rushed or lost in instrumental caprioles, but move without hectic.
A representative sample is Helixthat you HERE can see with a video. In less than three quarters of an hour it gives up Endless much to discover. The album and the music benefit enormously from the almost endless guitar lines and the not particularly complicated, but still present rhythm structures. Especially when it comes to songwriting Tool really have been a huge inspiration without that What the Five Fingers said to the Face have a similar media effect and mysterious aura as their famous role models.
Ambient Progressive Metal in Reinkultur
Sometimes the songs suffer a bit from the overly intrusively repetitive guitar lines as in WEEP and guitars and rhythm play side by side a bit incoherently. is strong Endless in the moments when they reflect on a brute heaviness in the interplay with dreamy guitars like in RAW.
A central piece is certainly the more than eight minutes long Threshold. There isn’t anything to be heard here that wasn’t already present in the previous course of the album, one or the other edge is set too much in a continuous loop here, as well as the transitions are sometimes not quite conclusive. Nevertheless leave What the Five Fingers said to the Face flexing your muscles again and helping the listener to choose whether he Endless one more listening session should be enormously further.
Conclusion
The fourth output Endless the progressive metalhead What the Five Fingers said to the Face has often become too cumbersome a matter. Nevertheless, the lover of Progressive Metal, which gets its atmosphere from the repetition of guitar figures, will find delicious ear food here. 8 / 10
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Line Up
Benjamin Hagaas – Bass
Audun Muller – drums
Stein Himsett – guitars, vocals
Tracklist
01. The Unseen Sun
02. Helix
03. To Become Invisible
04. Blackspiraldance
05. Come Not in That Form
06. WEEP
07. Spiraling
08. RAW
09. Kosmosis
10. Threshold
11. Endless
Links
Facebook What the Five Fingers said to the Face
Webseite What the Five Fingers said to the Face
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