First Fragment release new single and announce album details
Gloire Eternelle album out 29th October via Unique Leader
‘Pantheum’ single streaming now
Quebecois tech-death masters First Fragment have unveiled new single ‘Pantheum’ and announced the release of new album, Gloire Eternelle, out 29th October 2021 via Unique Leader.
Watch the visualiser to ‘Pantheum’ here
Pre-save Gloire Eternelle here: https://orcd.co/gloireeternelle
From day one First Fragment sought to create a brand of extreme technical death metal that combined counterpoint-based riffing, neoclassical lead guitar work, power metal-inspired passages as well as flamenco & swing sections, with desire to establish their own unique voice.
Their critically-acclaimed 2016 debut album, Dasein, released through Unique Leader, was the culmination of almost 10 years of hard work and dedication to their craft. First Fragment have since perfected their sound through expanding upon their extensive musical influences, further blurring the line between flamenco-inspired technical death metal and neoclassical power metal.
The result is Gloire Éternelle, an ambitious conceptual album that is unmistakably First Fragment, yet at the same time, impossible to categorise and pigeonhole. Baroque-influenced guitar counterpoint, flamenco sections, unique slap-bass-driven swing grooves (which the band trademarked by name as “swingdowns”), face-ripping lead guitar work and bombastic drumming, combine with a highly aggressive dual vocal approach and lyrics soaked in abstract poetry (sung in French), to create the ultimate shred fest. A shred fest with soul, memorability, identity, purpose and conviction.
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Track listing:
01 – Gloire éternelle
02 – Solus
03 – La veuve et le martyr
04 – Pantheum
05 – De chair et de haine
06 – Sonata en Mi mineur
07 – Ataraxie
08 – Soif Brûlante
09 – In’el
10 – Mort éphémère
