Artist: Fires In The Distance
Title: Air Not Meant For Us
Label: Prosthetic Records
Cat #: PROS105282
Release Year: 2023
Duration: Album
Format: CD
Packaging Type: Jewel Case

Back in September 2020, as the UK enjoyed respite between Covid lockdowns, and the air started to grow colder and the leaves duller with the promise of autumn, I heard Echoes from Deep November, the debut of melodic death metallers Fires in the Distance. It sounded—to my ears—like no one else, despite having elements reminiscent of Omnium Gatherum, Amorphis, and Be’lakor. And it stayed with me long after the leaves were dead and fallen. Fast-forward two and a bit years, when the singles from sophomore Air Not Meant for Us began to drop, and I was flooded with nostalgia and excitement as I heard that signature sound again. A breath of fresh air, this time coming with the rise of spring, as the buds bloom and the sun finally reaches this wasted isle. Everything seemed yet more lustrous and epic than before.

Recommended if you like: Astralborne, Hypocrisy, Opeth, Soilwork,RAMMSTEIN, GOTHMINISTER, DEATHSTARS, WHITE ZOMBIE, Wristmeetrazor 

Track Listing:

1. Harbingers
2. Wisdom of Falling Leaves
3. Crumbling Pillars of a Tranquil Mind
4. Adrift, Beneath the Listless Waves
5. Psalm of the Merciless
6. Idiopathic Despair