Polish blackened sludge purveyors Fiasko will self-release their second full-length album on 15th November. Entitled Amok ꓘoma it comprises eight songs about death and love, love for death and the death of love.
Out now is ‘Sztuczne Kwiaty’ the band’s second single from the album, that translates from the Polish to “Fake Flowers”.
Tomasz Mielnik, the band’s vocalist and lyricist said: “‘Fake Flowers’ is about dying affection. While aflamed – it warms up hearts and brightens the lives of those possessed by it. Once extinguished – it drains out souls and leaves us living dead in toxic fumes of painful severance.”
The single is available digitally, and you can check the video to it out here at RAMzine.
‘Sztuczne Kwiaty‘ follows their ‘Wniwecz’ single that ws the band’s first new track in almost five years. ‘Wniwecz’ that translates as “Into Naught”. The single is accompanied by a music video created in collaboration with This Is Madness that you can also check out here at RAMzine.
Mielniksaid: “‘Wniwecz’ paints the picture of a delayed apocalypse that we – humanity – create for ourselves. We rush forward swiftly and carelessly, until the very end not seeing the steep cliff we are heading towards.”
The band started working on the album immediately after their last release, the Mizantropolia EP that saw the light of day in February 2020. An extension of the concept and sound initiated on the previous EP. The result is an album consisting of eight songs, clocking at just over 45 minutes and rooted in black metal and sludge genres. The lyrics – again written in the band’s native Polish language – constitute an apocalyptic melting pot of despair, nihilism and violence.
The band’s efforts were hindered by the lack of a drummer, however, that was rectified after Tomek Walczak (Chainsword, Tankograd, Weedpecker etc.) was invited in 2023 to collaborate and arrange the drum tracks as a guest/session drummer.
Featuring Mielnik (Lead vocals, lyrics), Kozina and Michułka (Guitars), Nawrot (Bass guitar, backing vocals) and Walczak (Session drums) tracks on the album are ‘Spod Spodu’, ‘Wniwecz’, ‘Tarantyzm’, ‘VII Krąg’, ‘Sztuczne Kwiaty’, ‘Śmierć Krzywdziciela’, ‘Ciało obce’ and ‘Maligna’.
All instruments for Amok ꓘoma were recorded at Santa Studio under the watchful eye and ear of Mikołaj Kiciak. The vocals were recorded at Burning Tones by Adam Ziółkowski, who is also responsible for mixing the album. The recording was then mastered by Haldor Grunberg at Satanic Audio(Behemoth, Me And That Man, Gruzja, Thaw).
Fiasko rose from the ashes of the Warsaw band So I Scream in 2014. In the beginning, the band’s music was akin to alternative metal with electronic elements. Following the release of its debut album Głupcy Umierają in 2017, the band underwent major line-up changes and, consequently – an even more significant change in musical style. As a result, reinforced with a new guitarist and bass player, the band recorded and released an EP entitled Mizantropolia in 2020. On this recording, black metal blast beats mix with slower, sludge/doom metal parts, and echoes of cold wave loom in the background. The whole piece is complemented with gloomy Polish lyrics. After a handful of gigs promoting the EP, the band parted ways with their drummer and slowed down their activities while the world went to a halt during the covid pandemic before resurfacing now.
The artwork to Amok ꓘoma was done by Robert A. von Ritter (Hooded Menace, Urfaust, Malokarpatan, Outre, In Twilight’s Embrace) while the album’s booklet layout and design was done by Paweł Marzec of Kontamination Design (Dimmu Borgir, Morbus Chron, Blaze Of Perdition, Manbryne).
The album will be available in jewel case CD format and via all major streaming platforms. It will also be available for purchase via Godz ov War Productions and Malignant Voices.
