FRACTAL UNIVERSE Premiere ‘Interfering Spherical Scenes’ Music Video
June 25th, 2021
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Nancy, France-based progressive death metal band Fractal Universe have filmed a music video for the track ‘Interfering Spherical Scenes’. Directed by Anthony Dubois, the clip can be viewed below.
Fractal Universe issued third full-length studio album The Impassable Horizon on June 25th, 2021 through Metal Blade Records.
The album can be streamed in its entirety via YouTube below.
“We wanted to keep developing our musical personality and the natural sound we managed to get on Rhizomes,” said drummer Clément Denys. “It’s a very versatile and complex album. Musically speaking, you will find catchy songs which are really direct, progressive and mysterious ballads with epic saxophone solos, and technical songs with intricate riffing.”
“Despite the record being even more diverse, dynamic and including more clean vocals than its predecessor, the overall atmosphere is also slightly darker and more melancholic,” elaborated frontman Vince Wilquin.
With the first riffs and ideas for The Impassable Horizon emerging in November 2018, composition for the whole record took about a year, with the last six months before entering the studio in May of 2020 dedicated to vocal pre-production / arrangements and finalizing the guitar and saxophone solos.
Drums were recorded at the band’s own professional recording studio – Boundless Production Studio – in Florange, France, while the other instruments were tracked in their personal home studios. Said sessions were overseen by producer Flavien Morel.
“The sessions were good,” said Denys. “We were not in a rush. This was the first record we entirely tracked in our own studios, so we were for example able to spend two complete days on sound-checking the drums, which was really comfortable.”
Tracking of the vocals took as long to record as all of the other instrumentation combined. “Flavien really encouraged me to bring the vocal production to the next level: there are chorus sections where there are about 30 tracks of backing vocals, with every line quad-tracked, to make it sound really massive and ‘chorus-y’.”
“It feels like the natural evolution of our band sound, keeping our distinctive trademarks and incorporating new sounds and ideas,” concluded Wilquin.
Denys added: “We hope the new album will reach new fans and please our current ones, which have been amazingly supportive even during the pandemic, and that it will bring the band to the next level.”
The track listing is as follows;
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01. ‘Autopoiesis’
02. ‘A Clockwork Expectation’
03. ‘Interfering Spherical Scenes’
04. ‘Symmetrical Masquerade’
05. ‘Falls Of The Earth’
06. ‘Withering Snowdrops’
07. ‘Black Sails Of Melancholia’
08. ‘A Cosmological Arch’
09. ‘Epitaph’
10. ‘Godless Machinists’
11. ‘Flashes Of Potentialities (Unplugged)’ (bonus track)
Fractal Universe’s line-up is as follows;
Vince Wilquin (vocals, guitars and saxophone)
Hugo Florimond (guitars)
Valentin Pelletier (bass)
Clément Denys (drums)
Directed by Vincent Tournaud, a music video was filmed for the track ‘A Clockwork Expectation’. In addition, an animated music video was created for the song ‘Symmetrical Masquerade’. Both clips can also be viewed below.
Second studio record Rhizomes Of Insanity was released in April 2019 via Metal Blade.
Promotional photograph by Anthony Dubois.
