Repercussions of the Self, the new album by Fórn, is out today on Persistent Vision Records.
Pioneers of "funeral sludge," Fórn have wowed the metal underground since their formation over ten years ago. Returning now with the first new album since 2018, Fórn is reborn, thanks in part to new member Lane Shi Otayonii. Repercussions of the Self is a masterpiece that adds new layers of electronics and ethereal vocals to the band's beloved down-tuned style.
The band gives credit to the film scores of Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, as well as the works of Massive Attack and Portishead, as inspiration. "We always intended for the band to progress beyond the 'sludge' name tag," says guitarist Joey Gonzalez. "We feel that this album accomplishes that mission while still keeping with our classic sound to please the headbangers."
"Music for bad trips sometimes conjures in people’s heads stuff like bad Black Sabbath clones; for me, it’s stuff like [Fórn]... It’s like taking a fistful of pills and staring in a darkened bathroom into the swirling murk of muddy water in the bathtub and not knowing how it got that way. Psychedelic color as the mad final synapses of a dying brain. Sometimes metal is for feeling good. Sometimes it’s for feeling very fucking bad."
–Consequence
"Fórn is another band that’s left us longing for a new release, since their 2018 record 'Rites of Despair.' But the ensuing years of conquest, war, pestilence, and death have only served to make this band’s sound more magical and brutal... With the addition of Lane Shi Otayonii, they’re produced an opus that’s layered and impactful."
–CVLT Nation
"8/10. A shadow-casting monolith of pitch-black doom rife with unexpected influences."
–Decibel
"Their sludge foundation remains, but built on top of it are more electronic influences (Gonzalez cites Massive Attack, Portishead, Nine Inch Nails, Trent Reznor/Atticus Ross as further inspiration), as well as Otayonii’s added touches that make this band a more formidable and varied creature. This record is much different from what you’ve heard of them from the past, but it’s a natural, thrilling progression that proves this band always was capable of so much more."
–Meat Mead Metal
"Atmospheric sludge/doom metal sextet Fórn simultaneously reinvent and reclaim ownership of their own take on extreme and surreal gloom for this third full-length album. ‘Repercussions of the Self‘ manages grime-streaked cinematic loft and deadly slow-humming verve at its best, trading off between various dread-bound states of mind as they begin to break loose of expectations set by past releases."
–Mystification
"Funeral sludge titans Fórn and their latest effort which is, yes, amazeballs..."
–Nine Circles
"Prepare for titanic stomping riffs, jagged like barren crags, and gunshot drums coupled with gruesome roars and cauterizing screams; but also soft meandering guitar harmonies that ring and wail, lonely and musing."
–No Clean Singing
"While sludge and doom are still the bones of the band’s skeleton, many other styles and timbres have become the new flesh. There’s the mechanized crunch of industrial’s interlocking gears, the shimmering quiet/loud swells of the post-everything’s heart-sleeved reveries, and even the crepuscular ambiance of trip-hop’s darker side."
–Stereogum
"Heaviness mixed with wonderfully implemented euphoric tones. Highlighted by the haunting, siren-like vocals of their newest member, Lane Shi Otayonii, the band appears to have adopted a fresh approach to their work, and the outcome is striking and unmissable."
–Destroy//Exist
"[Otayonii] provides 'Repercussions of the Self' with an unpredictable vocal presence that breaks up their dour and unrelenting doom metal."
–Destroy//Exist
"[Otayonii] provides 'Repercussions of the Self' with an unpredictable vocal presence that breaks up their dour and unrelenting doom metal."
–Invisible Oranges
"Their sludge foundation remains, but built on top of it are more electronic influences (Gonzalez cites Massive Attack, Portishead, Nine Inch Nails, Trent Reznor/Atticus Ross as further inspiration), as well as Otayonii’s added touches that make this band a more formidable and varied creature. This record is much different from what you’ve heard of them from the past, but it’s a natural, thrilling progression that proves this band always was capable of so much more."
–Meat Mead Metal
"If you’re a fan of the dark and murky sounds that come from the thick molasses mixture of sludge and funeral doom, you’re going to enjoy the fuck out of this."
–MetalSucks
–MetalSucks
"Atmospheric sludge/doom metal sextet Fórn simultaneously reinvent and reclaim ownership of their own take on extreme and surreal gloom for this third full-length album. ‘Repercussions of the Self‘ manages grime-streaked cinematic loft and deadly slow-humming verve at its best, trading off between various dread-bound states of mind as they begin to break loose of expectations set by past releases."
–Mystification
"Funeral sludge titans Fórn and their latest effort which is, yes, amazeballs..."
–Nine Circles
"Prepare for titanic stomping riffs, jagged like barren crags, and gunshot drums coupled with gruesome roars and cauterizing screams; but also soft meandering guitar harmonies that ring and wail, lonely and musing."
–No Clean Singing
"While sludge and doom are still the bones of the band’s skeleton, many other styles and timbres have become the new flesh. There’s the mechanized crunch of industrial’s interlocking gears, the shimmering quiet/loud swells of the post-everything’s heart-sleeved reveries, and even the crepuscular ambiance of trip-hop’s darker side."
–Stereogum
"The sound is duly massive, tectonic and three-dimensional; the work of a band following a linear progression toward new ideas and balancing that against the devastation laid forth in their songs."
–The Obelisk
"There’s music that breaks the mold, that changes and evolves, and that defies the music genre canon - and that is exactly what Fórn’s Repercussions of the Self gives the listener."
–Veil of Sound
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