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0 Prog Rockers FEN Post New Video ‘Of Losing Interest’
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Prog Rockers FEN Post New Video ‘Of Losing Interest’
Top Left to Right – Guitars/Vocals: Doug Harrison | Bass: Jeff Caron,
Bottom Left to Right – Drums: Nando Polesel | Lead Guitars/Backing Vocals: Sam Levin
Vancouver progressive rockers FEN have posted a video for their title track from their fifth and latest album ‘Of Losing Interest’ released last summer via indie label Ripple Music to follow up their fourth release ‘Trails Out Of Gloom’.
“The song ‘Of Losing Interest’ broke new ground for us. We didn’t try to shape it into some convoluted or grandiose structure. We just let the riff be a riff and do its job and we kept the dynamics fairly steady throughout. At one point I considered titling the song, The Grump, based on the fact that the lyrics are from the perspective of someone who detests social interactions and does what he can to either cut them short or avoid them altogether. Overall, the video is a lofi attempt to reveal what might be inside his head.” comments vocalist / guitarist Doug Harrison.
To view the video, please visit the following link below.
Their heaviest and most technical album to date, ‘Of Losing Interest’ is an album that revisits the band’s harder edged metallic past while retaining the melodic sensibilities that made ‘Trails Out of Gloom’ so alluring. Co-Produced by Mike Southworth, his fourth with the band, ‘Of Losing Interest’ is a contrast of technical virtuosity layered against warm low end organics.
Track Listing: Of Losing Interest
1. Riddled 03:55
2. Of Losing Interest 04:59
3. Nice For Three Days 04:04
4. A Long Line 04:43
5. The Glove 03:23
6. Drunken Relief 04:26
7. Light Up The End 03:34
8. Pilot Plant 06:03
9. Snake Path 03:17
Show Dates:
March 21, 2013 – The Electric Owl – Vancouver, BC w/ Marching Mind, Porn for the Blind (kick off show for the Telus World Ski & Snowboard Festival, coming to Whistler April 12-21)
About:
In January of 1998, in the mountain shadows of Nelson, British Columbia, a creatorship emerged called Fen. The road has been long for this dark-leaning band, which after more than a decade of obscurity, was finally ushered into the prog and metal fan’s psyche. This occurred in 2010, when Fen signed to California label Ripple music and released their fourth album Trails Out Of Gloom. The album garnered impressive reviews from bloggers and print magazines worldwide, including mention in the UK’s Classic Rock magazine and a perfect 16/16 score from the US authority on prog: Progressions Magazine. To follow up this attention, in May of 2011, the management of UK/Israeli prog veterans Blackfield invited Fen to open for them on the Vancouver stop of their North American tour.
To date, Fen’s music has sold in more than fifteen countries, and with the help of dedicated bloggers, two AAA-radio campaigns, and a music video for the single “Miracle,” the band’s following continues to expand. In surprising contrast to the dark nature of Fen’s music, their songs have been placed on HGTV (Home and Garden Television) and Animal Planet’s, From Underdog to Wonderdog, among others. The song “Through the Night” will soon be available on the video game RockBand.
Fen has performed at clubs and festivals throughout BC, and in the summer of 2011, took part in the Forest Symphony at UBC’s Pacific Spirit Park. Fen’s fifth album, Of Losing Interest, will be available in August 2012, and is a return to the heavier aspects of the bands sound. It is their second release under the Ripple Music label, and it brings together a band line up first assembled in 1999.
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0 Folk Metallers SCYTHIA Nominated For SIRIUSXM INDIE AWARD For Metal Group of The Year
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L-R – Morgan Zentner – Oboe of Death | Celine Derval – Drums, Vox | Terry Savage – Bass, Back-up Vox | Dave Khan – Lead Vocals, Guitar – (Photo Credit – James Weekes) [High Res – Press Photo – Download]
Canada’s favorite purveyors of folk/prog metal, Scythia are proud to announce they have been nominated for Metal Group of The Year at this year’s SiriusXM Indie Awards during Canadian Music Week this coming March in Toronto, ON.
Scythia is nominated with the following Canadian bands.
http://indies.ca/nominees/ (online voting begins Jan 28)
METAL ARTIST OR GROUP OF THE YEAR
Bison b.c. (Metal Blade Records)
Derelict (Independent)
Devin Townsend Project (eOne Music Canada)
Mares Of Thrace (Sonic Unyon Records)
Scythia (Independent)
Event Details:
Date: Friday, March 22, 2013
Venue: Kool Haus (132 Queens Quay E.)
Doors: 7:00PM Show: 8:00PM
All Ages / General Admission
Ticket Link: http://indies.ca/buy-tickets/
Vocalist / guitarist Dave Khan comments:
“Scythia is honoured to be nominated for an Indie Award. It’s great to know that our fellow Canadians appreciate our unconventional take on metal. It’s killer to be doing this alongside such heavyweights in the scene and this is the fuel to keep going and push this project further!”
Following the success of their 2010 “…Of War” and 2011 “…Of Exile” albums, Scythia unleashed their 2012 scorcher, “For the Bear”. The short, but sweet seven-track EP departs from the orchestration and central concept of its predecessors, instead representing a leaner, faster, sharper folk metal machine.
‘For The Bear’ EP is now streaming at the following link here (http://soundcloud.com/scythia-metal/sets/for-the-bear) along with their latest music video ‘Video Game Medley’, which can be viewed at the following link below.
New Music Video – ‘Video Game Medley’
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