FMR: For Many Reasons - Make your Own - 8 Track Album - Great Dane Records - Released June 2013

FMR: For Many Reasons

Make your Own

8 Track Album

Great Dane Records

Released June 2013

FMR: For Many Reasons – Lyon, France

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Genre: Death Metal

Discography:

Time to Play – Album 2011

Make your Own – Album 2013

“FMR are probably the most elusive band you will ever come across, and the fact could simply be For Many Reasons! Even their album gives very little away and if it does the type is so dark and written so the eye cannot fully focus on the information.  Whether this is deliberate remains to be seen, however, if I ever do discover the whereabouts of FMR I shall of course put the links here, but for now it will just remain a blank and ambiguous void!”

Hell

The titles are short and sweet! This one starts off with an unsettling whisper and then explodes with dynamic intervention. Nothing is obscured here for sure. It elevates to great heights with badgering riffs and creepy harrowing menace – its tumultuous rhythms are very addictive and pleasurable to the ears.

Way

With the album under certain wraps this track appears from behind its cloaked encounter and offering a certain unrest to its pandemonium. Its lively motion functions on a bristling heavy force field of synchronised energy.

Hole

An agile track that is yet slow to make headway. Possessing ambiance and torrid riffs that occupy the track and as it furthers it becomes more fluid in projecting its motives.

Sky

Has a laced inter structure that paints a frosty and bleak back drop. Its desolate landscape although offering some tender drenched moments just ambles into a nothingness and quite undisciplined.

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“By the time the final riffs are played you can pick out some humongous and memorable moments and savour them religiously!”

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Colours

Is a sharp synth and anger ridden drum moment in which the two come together and give birth to stirring and agitating rhythms that are captivating and enthralling.

Truth

Is a squally and disturbing composition of deepness encountering a haunting synth ensemble that manifests into a monstrous plague of energy that pervades the senses with vocals from Dan Swanö.

Silence

Possesses another unusual opening but is soon back on track and thrusting out its familiar tones, although not altogether death metal tones – this has an edge to it and stirs up some feisty commotion.

Funeral

The bell tolls in an eerie landscape of loneliness. The haunting chills of singular notes suddenly fades and a deep racket starts with brawling throaty lures and strenuous rhythms that are gnarly and chaotic. Furthering deeper into the track Anneke Van Giersbergen can be heard with her lilting vocal portraying a melancholic superiority.

Summary

Although this album does house a lot of pleasurable moments it doesn’t flow constantly so attention can be slightly lost at times.

It does appear anarchic in parts which can also be a good thing as it says the band are flexible in approach and not stuck within the limits of their genre or at least trying to focus in on new territory.

But by the time the final riffs are played you can pick out some humongous and memorable moments and savour them religiously!

8/10

Track List:

Hell

Way

Hole

Sky

Colours

Truth

Silence

Funeral

Members:

David Boutarin – Vocals/Guitar/Programming

Florian Cellard – Drums

Eric Lombard – Bass

Andre Bermudez – Guitar

Guest Vocals:

Morgane Khouni – on Hell

Anneke Van Giersbergen – on Funeral
Dan Swanö – on Truth