Fen

From the United Kingdom we bring you Fen.

The band Fen deals with an expression of loss and melancholy. Their primairy goal is to engulf the listener into a windy and desolate landscape, bereft of hope.

The album Epoch is very diverse and sometimes even reminds me of Enslaved’s work.

Fen really captures the dark and desolate atmosphere, where there is no light, no hope, no happiness. This band is what is called Black/ 'Shoegaze' Metal. Even though I am remotely new to the Black Metal scene I really loved Fen from the start. It captured the hopelessness very well.

A quote from www.cackblabbath.co.uk :

"When Fen’s previous album, The Malediction Fields, came out the band were heralded as “a UK rival to the throne of bands like Enslaved and Primordial”. With Epoch Fen have certainly lived up to that high praise and delivered on the promise shown by their previous release. It’s out next February and will surely feature in several top 2o lists at the end of 2011."

”Epoch” can be found here
The Malediction Fields here

”The Ancient Sorrow” is a split with De Arma which is unfortunately not for sale on Amazon.
”Towards the Shores of the End”, another split of Fen and De Arma, which can be found here

I did not listen to the following yet but it can be found on Amazon.com as well…

”Trails Out of Gloom” here
”Of Losing Interest” here
“Dustwalker” here