Ferndal - Ferndal (Digi)

Puissance::Dignity::Veracity #### FERNDAL clads it's philosophy about life, death and individual freedom into a sonic world where romantic melancholy accompanies pure Black Metal aggression. For this unique sound experience musicians from different styles gathered their forces – from professional cellist Lestaya to established Black Metal musicians and members of EIS Alboîn and Abarus. #### FERNDAL features seven tracks, among them four metallic longtracks and a classically orchestrated version of Windir’s „Arntor“, has been mixed and mastered by Markus Skroch (Hel, Ash of Ashes) at Kalthallen Studio, and is adored by an artwork drawn by renowned Spanish artist Norax (Lux Divina). #### Advance quotes #### “FERNDAL's self-titled album is an intense and wonderfully beautiful listening experience. Unbelievable that this is only the band's debut album. You have to listen to it by all means!“ (Lokhi, WOLFCHANT) #### “Ferndal know excellently how to combine electrical and classical instruments and vocals in a symphony beyond comparison. Everything matches perfectly: Composition, sound, mixing. … Lovers of creative black metal as well as classical music who take pleasure also in clean singing are at the right address.” (Hannes Kirchhoff, Legacy magazine #107, 14/15 points – editorial tip) #### “Between the more conventional black metal songs it's first of all the tracks with classical instruments, like strings, piano and church organ giving FERNDAL's debut album a huge memorability.“ (Simon Bodesheim, metal1.info) #### “In a minimum of time, FERNDAL succeed in evoking a melancholic and at the same time bewitching atmosphere. You can actually hear how much the band loves to make music.“ (Jochen Zielbauer, Metalnews.de) #### “A promising debut album, being very moody especially in its revelling moments.“ (Markus Stock, EMPYRIUM, THE VISION BLEAK, SUN OF THE SLEEPLESS) #### “Listen to this stuff at MAXIMUM volume!” (L. v. Beethoven) #### „If you want to know how FERNDAL sound, just imagine Valfar from WINDIR would come to life again (the instrumental basement) and would have joined with German black metal staples EIS (the lyrics) to aim for a debut album with superb melodies, the necessary dose of rawness, expressive clean vocals and intelligent lyrics. Not only in theory this sounds like a highly unique mixture, the band managed to put this into praxis as well. Again, Einheit Produktionen have proven their sense for class A melodic German black metal“. (Pascal Staub, Stormbringer.at) #### “The Munsterians‘ songs deserve definitely a live-debut with large audience.” (Michael Kogler, Orkus) #### “The lyrics are so deep, that one becomes insane.” (F. Nietzsche) #### “A handmade blessing in the flood of “extreme” metal bands finding kitschy keyboards and canned orchestras a hard nut to crack. “Ferndal” is pure poesy and a more than remarkable debut.” (Napalm, spring 2017).