Furia Eclipse Black Metal on "Huta Luna" (Interview + Early Album Stream)

Blooded in the same ferment of intrepid Polish extremism that spawned Gruzja, Licho, and Odraza, Silesian scene veterans Furia mark their return with the release of Huta Luna, a typically enigmatic offering, liberated from the self-imposed limitations affecting more orthodox metal projects. Indeed, vocalist/guitarist Nihil, now shuns the ‘metal’ tag completely, seeing Furia instead as “an outgrowth of the genre, only using the tools of metal to an extent."

Such a statement might seem misleading when initially confronted with the pugnacious salvoes frontloading the album (which you can stream here early ahead of its Tuesday release), a series of coruscating whiplash instigators screaming pure metal vengeance and brokering a swift about-turn from the abstract melodramas of 2021’s W śnialni.

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Yet while on the surface rage-fuelled maelstroms such as "Zamawianie trzecie" and "Wracaj" throwback to the band’s more prosaic black metal beginnings, they also cede several seditious folk-indebted elements running concurrent with Furia’s idiosyncratic evolution: rippling, trebly guitar lines resemble a turbo-charged balalaika on ‘Swawola niewola’, conjuring a subterranean flux harvested from the melodic echoes of traditional Polish country-song, while the string-mauling spaghetti-western twangs of "Na koń!" subvert that bludgeoning volley’s rampant mantra. 

Individual tracks begin to congeal into a homogenous surge, incubating an ever-dilating micro-climate which Nihil identifies as a “special form of ambient music,” forging a strident full-throttle counterpart to Huta Luna’s jaw-dropping endgame.

For more than 30 minutes, "Księżyc, czyli Słonce" represents the apogee, thus far, of Furia’s mission to “create a space through sets of sounds and noises, rather than music itself, for analysing experiences, feelings and thoughts.” Between them Nihil, A, Sars and Namtar annex a dread nether-zone populated by pernicious shadow demons and whispered Delphian conspiracies, a Borgesian alternate unreality where Nurse With Wound and Flying Saucer Attack hook-up for a soundtrack to a bizarro Parajanov ritual – pregnant with phantasmal drones, delay-scrambled distress signals, disembodied voices and atrophying gongs – giving the psyche free rein, providing potent catalysts for intravenous mood conduction. 

But as for the track’s exact meaning, Nihil remains characteristically reticent: “I don’t want to reveal too much,” he explains. "That would strip our work of all the elements which are intentionally not made explicit. It would destroy it.”

-Spencer Grady

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Huta Luna releases October 10th via Pagan Records.