FAIL/LURE: a blend between "failure" and "allure". Based on Peter Greenaway's "Drowning by Numbers" as well as several Art Nouveau works Farsot, one of Germany's conceptionally most ambitious black metal bands, have conceived their third album. "FAIL/LURE" addresses the inevitable dilemma between fascination and mania, desire and disgust, power and weakness - the seeming rift between the sexes. It is an allegory of life as a not endless game that cannot be won. The involved concept is countered musically by Farsot's more spontaneous, intuitive approach, consciously refraining from "heady" leanings and patterns.
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