FOSCOR release first new song and reveal details of new album

FOSCOR are now premiering the first track taken from their forthcoming fifth full-length. 'Les Irreals Visions' has been slated for release on June 9th.

The Catalan melancholy metal experts are now streaming the song "Ciutat Tràgica" featuring Alan A. Nemtheanga from PRIMORDIAL exclusively via Metalitalia

Regarding the song premiere, FOSCOR comment: "Our premiere song 'Ciutat Tràgica' translates as 'tragic city' and it was admittedly also our original choice for the new album's opening track and title. In terms of lyrics, this record maps the collective interactions, weaknesses, and individual hopes of human beings in a city as a metaphor - amplifying the myths that we face. Life as such is represented by a maze of places, paths, wefts, and bounds that make us into who we are. After receiving the translation into photography, which Dutch artist Nona Limmen developed around our concept, for the album artwork, and its cover, we realized the bigger scale and wider connection that everything had with the Modernist Art period. Isolating the experience of hallucination to treat the ventures and misfortunes of the human being in a changing and distressed society, this magical place becomes a dreamlike landscape of extremes where we locate the scene and its reality. The first song premiered perfectly describes the emotional dimension of the nature of our music.

Reminiscent of the 80's monochrome landscapes that we all have in mind, it offers the same intensity and vitality, which has always characterized us and that people hopefully find thoughout this whole album. To work only with clean vocals and adding Catalan lyrics clearly mark a changing point for us. Last but not least, having Irish gentleman Alan A. Nemtheanga from PRIMORDIAL performing vocals on this song makes it an even more special moment."

FOSCOR are furthermore revealing artwork and track-list of 'Les Irreals Visions', which can both be viewed below.

Track-list

1. Instants (5:19)

2. Ciutat Tràgica (5:28)

3. Altars (4:43)

4. Encenalls De Mort (4:58)

5. Malfiança (4:49)

6. Espectres Al Cau (6:06)

7. De Marges I Matinades (6:19)

8. LesIrreals Visions (5:59) 

FOSCOR have promised "something magical" for their forthcoming fifth full-length. The Catalans have kept word and carved a multi-faceted jewel out of deep longing, their country's characteristic melancholy, and dark foreboding heaviness, which they descriptively named 'Les Irreals Visions'. This album invites the listener onto a cinematic journey through dream landscapes created by carefully arranged sonic delights and unexpected aural twists. 

FOSCOR hail from Catalonia, which is still yet largely unwilling part of modern Spain. With Barcelona as its capital, this region has a long artistic tradition with the fin de siècle style of Modernisme - a parallel development to Art Nouveau and Jugendstil among others - forming one of its major achievements. Catalonia has also left an audible mark in the extreme music scene of Spain in recent years. 

FOSCOR are attracted to and build upon these foundations, while taking inspiration from the morbid, decadent, and sick reflections on a rapidly changing society that shaped the artistic landscape at the end of the nineteenth century.

The name FOSCOR translates as "darkness" in their native Catalan tongue, which the band from Barcelona often uses for their lyrics as a distinctive element and strong connection with their cultural reality.

The Catalans’ first three albums, 'Entrance to the Shadows' Village' (2004), 'The Smile of the Sad Ones' (2007), and 'Groans to the Guilty' (2009) were wrapping a shroud of classic second wave black metal around a melancholic yet vital core, while already showing a distinct individuality reaching out from the confines of any genre. 'Groans to the Guilty' witnessed FOSCOR setting out towards more progressive and avant-garde course, but it was next full-length 'Those Horrors Wither' (2014) which marked a clear departure from the black metal waters as well as related clichés and self-imposed limitations. Darkness found an equally strong expression through the use of clean vocals, doom infused tempo reduction, and catchy heavy riffing.

FOSCOR have now taken another step in their constantly changing and shifting evolution. 'Les Irreals Visions' is easily drawing its eager audience in, only to lure the unwary listener into a dark labyrinth of unexpected complexity filled with beauty and sorrow, which they might find much harder to leave than anticipated. Enjoy charting your course through the glittering facets of this musical gem. 

Line-up

Fiar: lyrics, vocals

Falke: guitars, effects

A.M.: guitars, bass, piano

Guest musicians

J.F. (CRUCIAMENTUM, SHEIDIM, ERED): all drums

A.A. Nemtheanga (PRIMORDIAL): guest vocals on "Ciutat Tràgica"

Marcelo Mercadante: Bandoneon on "Espectres Al Cau", "De Marges I Matinades" and "Les Irreals Visions" arranged, performed and recorded at Estudi El Mercat.

Recording: Moontower Studios, Foscor & Javi Félez

Mixing: Moontower Studios, Javi Félez 

Mastering: Orgone Studios, Jaime Gomez Arellano

Photography: Nona Limmen (CHELSEA WOLFE, URFAUST) in Iceland 2016 

Design: Maria Picassó / Ideophony (IHSAHN, OBSIDIAN KINGDOM)

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