Fen - Atmospheric Black Metal from United Kingdom
Interview with The Watcher
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Interview by Jay Parker
Hi this is Jay reporting from Bogota, Colombia... Today I’ll be talking to UK black metal geniuses, FEN… 1) Tell us about Fen... when and where was the band formed? Who is in the current line up? The first real seeds of what would become Fen were sown in the winter of 2005. I’d experimented many years before this with some atmospheric black metal ideas when I first encountered the
genre but this fell to one side in favour of more aggressive, discordant material. It was in the second half of 2005 – and after more than half a
more elegiac with a focus on soaring, depressive melodies and billowing ambience. I spent time that winter forging several pieces and then in the new year presented them to the bassist and drummer of the band I was in at that time with a view to creating a studio-bound project. They too were in a similar creative space – yearning to bring elements of post-rock
t s u m e en c s K U T h e e g a r d e d a s oa n r e be r s y a l p u . serio e g a t s l the globa decade of pursuing ever-more dissonant sounds – that I felt the pull to create something
