As I spin this and the weather slowly warms up I already feel myself pinning for later October and the grasp of a cold November. Winter is an incredible experience and captures those icy, desolate days perfectly.

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Metal Hammer

Winter is a record that vibrates with bleakness yet the story is not one of complete misery and in VI (Sight) beauty and hope are created by closing the journey on melancholic resonance that takes flight on passionate words and shimmering soul.

Madam X

Though Fen are becoming increasingly skilled at layering a range of influences and bending a number of genres, with Winter assuredly their best outing yet, there are only parts of this release that I feel compelled to hear again.

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After 10 years of making music, Winter feels like the album Fen were destined for. A consolidation of all their past work, whilst building cavernous gates to something entirely new; a dark monument pointed towards the stars.

Beautifully recorded and produced (by Jaime Gomez Arellano), exquisite melodies abound, with earthly nods to folk roots (Grungyn's bassline in Penance) and misty shoegaze (The Watcher's harmonic progressions in Interment), all wrapped in the wind and rain of black metal. ... read more