Vehemency Even as a newbie to Furia’s music and hearing their recent EP, Halny, for the first time, it didn’t take many seconds to realize why this material isn’t released under the name of its big brother, Massemord: Furia’s approach is evidently more experimental, albeit black metal is still the backbone to the psychedelic, jazzy, nocturnal music.

Halny is a one big song clocking at twenty minutes, consisting of a plethora of interesting breakdown moments until building up to more paced sections: the song keeps fluctuating between the rather quiet parts - comprising electric and occasionally acoustic guitar - and more active, hypnotic moments of ’shoegazey’ black metal. The overall mood is somewhat obscure and mysterious, but it certainly possesses lots of hopelessness and yearning in it - even the most dissonant riffs on the song have that feeling of dim sadness. This atmosphere is the driving force here, and it’s not common to come across something quite like it in black metal: this is like jazz gone demented black metal.

I always find myself absorbed in the music: twenty minutes go by surprisingly fast and it even leaves me a bit hungry. The professional and detailed production ensures an enjoyable listening experience, and the fairly unique vocal delivery - semi-clean, mid-range utterance - works well, too. Halny might not be the most goosebumps-inducing record I’ve heard lately, but its nocturnal aura is still something that makes me revisit the EP frequently. Do not miss this if looking for some innovation inside the borders of black metal.