A big album for a big idea, Senicarne finds French post-metallers Fall Of Messiah really taking a bath in their shiny, enormous, cascadingly heavy sound, while dealing with the history of humans’ attachment to nature, reality and one another. It’s a mood born of an observation that everything is futile, everything is arguable, nobody truly believes in anything anymore, other than their need for distraction and novelty. With a title that, backwards, translates as ‘rooted’ in French, and forward works as ‘old flesh’ in Latin, Fall Of Messiah clearly aren’t afraid of working their brains. But they’re not pseuds, they just actually dare to go deep. Musically, the vessel for their journey is built of similar materials used by Alcest, Envy, Svalbard and Deafheaven. It sparkles and floats, t...
