Fliege's debut album, The Invisible Seam, is out today (self-released).
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"Brooklyn’s Fliege jokingly refers to themselves as 'blackened hair metal,' but the band’s debut record isn’t kidding around. A concept album responding to Ingmar Bergman’s seminal film 'The Seventh Seal', it expands on the genre-agnostic approach of the band’s self-titled debut LP... The results gesture to the psychedelic synth beds once prominent in Chicago black metal as well as Godflesh’s pounding industrial percussion."
–Consequence of Sound
“They defy easy categorization, they’re pop-culture savvy deconstructionists, and they have a sense of humor without being a ‘joke’ band. Also, they’re fucking awesome."
–MetalSucks
"Fliege takes you beyond post-hardcore and into the realm of the ethereal... Blackened screams, 80s riffage, industrialized drum programming, and post-hardcore passion."
"The synths and drum programming give it an industrial feel, shrieks from vocalist Peter Rittweger drench the music in blackened fury, and the guitars have an ‘80s heavy metal expression to them. All of that at once might seem too much, and it takes a few songs to get adjusted. Once that initial curve is passed over, it becomes very appealing."
–Heavy Music HQ
–New Noise
"With influences pulled from industrial, heavy metal, post-punk and elsewhere, the bricolage Fliege conjures could have easily fallen flat as a failed experiment. Instead, it’s a genuinely bold, refreshing collection of songs that both honors and progresses everything that makes black metal great."
–Heavy Blog Is Heavy
"With influences pulled from industrial, heavy metal, post-punk and elsewhere, the bricolage Fliege conjures could have easily fallen flat as a failed experiment. Instead, it’s a genuinely bold, refreshing collection of songs that both honors and progresses everything that makes black metal great."
–Heavy Blog Is Heavy
"'The Invisible Seam' is chock full of moments that effectively blend moody synths and bleak black metal with anthemic choruses and classic hair metal riffing... It is clear Fliege is a band with a vision and they are not putting themselves in a stylistic or artistic box."
–Nine Circles
"A 'Headbanger’s Ball'-era ripper, with fiery and towering riffage, thunderous drumming, howled vocals and atmospheric synths."
–Joy of Violent Movement
"A 'Headbanger’s Ball'-era ripper, with fiery and towering riffage, thunderous drumming, howled vocals and atmospheric synths."
–Joy of Violent Movement
"The synths and drum programming give it an industrial feel, shrieks from vocalist Peter Rittweger drench the music in blackened fury, and the guitars have an ‘80s heavy metal expression to them. All of that at once might seem too much, and it takes a few songs to get adjusted. Once that initial curve is passed over, it becomes very appealing."
–Heavy Music HQ
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