{"id":104991,"date":"2025-06-07T00:00:37","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T23:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=104991"},"modified":"2025-06-13T11:31:39","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T10:31:39","slug":"album-review-furyclaws-eternal-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-furyclaws-eternal-night\/","title":{"rendered":"FURYCLAWS – Eternal Night (2025) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

FURYCLAWS
\nEternal Night<\/strong><\/span>
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\nHellenic Metal World (2025)<\/span>
\nRating: 6.5\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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I love being drawn into albums with rich, kaleidoscopic cover art. Sadly, that is not the case here as prolific Greek act FuryClaws grates my soul with another unwelcoming digitally crafted cover. But at least it\u2019s better than the giant flaming cat which graced the last album, 2024\u2019s Underworld<\/em>.<\/p>\n

With their fifth full-length platter in as many years, the trio of Panagioths H. (vocals), Aggelos T. (guitar and bass) and Babis A. (drums) embarks on a rather grey and icy (it\u2019s that damn cover art!) venture combing the glaciers with their humourless mixture of black, death, heavy and power metal.<\/p>\n

Even with its majestic melodies and sprawling cold grooves, Eternal Night<\/em> just refuses to be inviting, unravelling as a thorny gauze of progressive angles and rainy rhythmic sheets. That\u2019s not to say that the band doesn\u2019t have much going on, far from it. For its 31 minute duration there are chilly groove metal passages entwined with brash and abrasive riffs which twist like black ice daggers into the heart.<\/p>\n

From the opening narration of \u2018Message\u2019 through to the snarling mid-paced aggression of \u2018Chasing The Light\u2019 and into the sprawling glacial melody of \u2018Queen Of Time\u2019, and ending with the varying layers of \u2018Lying Down In The Forest Deep\u2019, there\u2019s just so much to savour, but the lack of warmth dominates. However, FuryClaws, even with their silly moniker, are extremely talented, adept at constructing both soothing, tranquil passages alongside hateful, snarling wickedness.<\/p>\n

Some of the content could easily suit a mid-to-late 90s black metal ethos, but as exampled on \u2018Black Sun\u2019 there are still the unexpected stark passages; the tap of an isolated drum, the mere tingle of guitar, all before nefarious rushes of permafrost are spawned.<\/p>\n

\u2018Light The Darkness\u2019 showcases the band\u2019s softer side, this being a brooding ballad with clear vocals, but as the moon fog drifts across the surface of the black waters I\u2019m left seeking solace in the warmth of flames. Still, Eternal Night<\/em> is an intriguing album that probably deserves a higher rating, but not here.<\/p>\n

Neil Arnold<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

FURYCLAWS Eternal Night Hellenic Metal World (2025) Rating: 6.5\/10 I love being drawn into albums with rich, kaleidoscopic cover art. Sadly, that is not the case here as prolific Greek act FuryClaws grates my soul with another unwelcoming digitally crafted cover. But at least it\u2019s better than the giant flaming cat which graced the last […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,5926],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-furyclaws"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104992,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104991\/revisions\/104992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}