Four years ago, with their cryptically entitled debut album "IIII," Farsot were able to give a fresh impetus to the genre of Black Metal, musically and conceptionally. The news spread quickly of this inaccessible yet at the same time fascinating album; it become something of an insider's tip in the scene, and it wasn't long before Farsot were considered the great hope of German Black Metal.
Hence, the expectations for their highly anticipated sophomore "Insects" were high, yet Farsot haven't been working on this album for four years in vain. The record contains a unique new definition of dark music, emphasising trance-like instrumentals as much as clear, conjuring vocals and many groovy passages. It shouldn't go unmentioned that for the first time in their history, the band has been using English lyrics exclusively. "Insects" is less focussed on pure aggression and catchiness, but more on emotional depth in all its facets – and in all its gravity, for at the centre of the album is man, the unknown creature, his abysses, and the Kafkaesque complexity of inter-human action. Once more, this album shows Farsot's way out of the confines of generic metaphors, as it plays with natural loathing and repulsion as much as with the fascination that humans feel when confronted with the crawling, creeping, wriggling, and coiling of lesser creatures, worms, beetles, and insects.
Tracklist:
1. Like Flakes Of Rust
2. Empyrean
3. Perdition
4. 7
5. Adamantine Chains
6. The Vermilion Trail
7. Withdrawal
8. Somnolent
