Suffocate For Fuck Sake is back with a fourth release.
Entitled Fyra, the album also celebrates the swedish band’s seventeenth year, of which journey began in 2004 between Screamo, Post-Metal and Prog influences.
The album has four parts, symbolized by four characters, to which the band gives life through its riffs, and above all its howlings. During twelve songs, which is nearly an hour and a half, the band will make us meet its characters, penetrate their mind, but also face their hardships with them. Believe me, the hardships we are talking about take place into a devastated universe, between addiction, abandon, anxiety, lies and oppression.
To be honest, I didn’t even feel the album pass the very first time I heard it. For me, it’s a block of sorrow and raw aggression we collide to. And the first will probably be more violent for those who don’t know the band at all. But Suffocate For Fuck Sake slowly catches us into its world, populated by soft and hypnotic riffs, swedish lyrics, airy and mesmerizing backing vocals, soaring leads and soft strikes, but also more intense parts that will assault us, oppress us and unveil some kind of inborn blackness. The band develops this contrast thanks to Electro influences, a visceral and unstoppable rage, but also female backing vocals, unexpected and progressive elements, a collaboration with the swedish band Vi Som Älskade Varandra Så Mycket and above all its permanent sincerity.
Each composition, whatever how much time it lengths, has its very own identity. A black and haunting oppression for From The Window, a surprising duality on All Our Memories, a hurtful intensity on Alone, a soaring difference between words and screams on Cosmopol, ambient tones for Small Comments, or a violent melancholy on Quiet, the last song. There is everything. Whatever the feeling you are looking for, the band knows how to express it.
Sometimes a band talks to your soul and you don’t know why. Suffocate For Fuck Sake is one of those bands. If their whole discography crosses an incredible emotional chaos, Fyra slowly drives us through four seizing and intense stories, of which transcription is mind blowing.
95/100