{"id":99538,"date":"2023-03-24T00:00:14","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T00:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=99538"},"modified":"2023-04-25T13:51:43","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T12:51:43","slug":"album-review-firmament-we-dont-rise-we-just-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-firmament-we-dont-rise-we-just-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"FIRMAMENT – We Don\u2019t Rise, We Just Fall (2023) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

FIRMAMENT
We Don\u2019t Rise, We Just Fall<\/strong><\/span>
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\nDying Victims Productions (2023)<\/span>
Rating: 7\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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It took me a while to get used to the vocals of Marco Herrmann but musically this is a very interesting heavy metal-cum-hard rock expression from a German band that I\u2019d not been familiar with previously. There is no doubting the obscure nature of this debut full-length offering and the 70s influence is also clear as the five piece somewhat trundles through a batch of tracks which bring to mind the likes of H\u00e4llas, early Iron Maiden, and a general New Wave Of British Heavy Metal starkness that some, more picky individuals may find rather dull.<\/p>\n

I decided to stick with this opus in spite of its lack of frills. After all, had this been released in 1981 it would have no doubt been overlooked, and I do have concerns that in 2023 with a glut of bands resorting to old school worship, this outing may still go under the radar of many. However, there is a certain charm in hearing this quintet amble somewhat nonchalantly through their parade of underwhelming rock oddities which come encased in an equally obscure album cover.<\/p>\n

\u2018The Void\u2019 is tightly musically but shambling vocally and \u2018Dreams Of Misery\u2019 has a crackle and fizz to its catchy axe work, while other notable tunes are the subtle \u2018Live In The Night\u2019, the stark plod of \u2018Losing You\u2019 and the loping groove of \u2018No Future\u2019. But all the tracks here create a bleak layer of mist upon the horizon and as this opus unravels one gets the sense of some mystical mid-80s Euro metal gloominess that is nary a whisper away from slipping into an unintentional doom metal vibe. Peculiar then is the best word to describe such a melancholic amble where sullen warbles drift awkwardly over pallid soundscapes.<\/p>\n

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

FIRMAMENTWe Don\u2019t Rise, We Just Fall Dying Victims Productions (2023)Rating: 7\/10 It took me a while to get used to the vocals of Marco Herrmann but musically this is a very interesting heavy metal-cum-hard rock expression from a German band that I\u2019d not been familiar with previously. There is no doubting the obscure nature of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,5323],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-firmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99538","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=99538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99539,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99538\/revisions\/99539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}