Release Date: October 10, 2021
Label: Revolvermann Records / Manyiax (LP/Digital)
Watch Flesia’s video for the track “Freiwilliger Insasse” at Invisible Oranges At This Location.
“Flesia’s black metal strips the genre down to its barest, cruelest essentials—and rendered live in this unassuming setting, it casts truly frightening shadows. (…) … earnestly delivered metal.” Invisible Oranges
Under the mighty roar of fatally melodic and gruellingly dissonant black metal, the Leipzig trio Flesia sees the darkness of the world. The fitting soundtrack is provided by their debut album Trost, on which exactly that is not to be found.
The instrumentation, reduced exclusively to bass and drums, creates violently rearing acoustic walls and pulsating song structures – mostly lapsing into frenzy, but occasionally bursting into deeply painful resignation, but always consistently behind a unique backdrop of the brutal collapse of being.
Due to the broad amp repertoire, the bass scratches, bites, seethes and eats into the synapses with an almost unbelievably broad sound spectrum, always driven by relentless, mostly blasting drums.
This musical doomsday rage is completed by ranting, screaming and manically whispering vocals, which express a devastating, retributive view of power, consumption and human existence.
With their debut album, Flesia leave a burning trail of destruction and prove that blasts, bass and prose are the only necessary means to do so.
“Flesia’s black metal strips the genre down to its barest, cruelest essentials—and rendered live in this unassuming setting, it casts truly frightening shadows. (…) … earnestly delivered metal.” Invisible Oranges
F”rom listening to this Leipzig-based trio’s next song you probably wouldn’t know that the only instruments it includes are bass and drums, because the band have coaxed such a broad array of tones from the bass. Accompanied by blasting and galloping drums, the familiar low-end tumult comes through, but that’s joined by increasingly feverish dissonance in the upper range, which creates a very unsettling, stomach-churning sensation. Cold abyssal roars and goblin snarls add to the music’s unnerving impact.” No Clean Singing
“Flesia’s all-out attack features mountains of noise and a relentless pace that will glue you to your seat through sheer force, as well as arresting your attention.” Everything Is Noise
“FLESIA have dedicated themselves to the approach of lo-fi black metal and also implement it consistently”Metal.de
“(…) massive, acoustic walls and pulsating song formations – mostly chasing into frenzy, occasionally shattering into deeply painful resignation – but always consistently behind a unique backdrop of the brutal collapse of being and with a retributive look at power, consumption and the human condition.”Deaf Forever