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What the Five Fingers said to the Face - Endless - Reviewed By soundmagnet ! Check it out here at this link: https://www.soundmagnet.eu/what-the-five-fingers-said-to-the-face-endless-album-review/

If the music is bulky, the band name itself can certainly be too. What the Five Fingers Said to the Face is a progressive metal project from Oslo, Norway that packs a punch. The band, which has already had the occasional live presence in its twelfth year of existence, is now bringing the fans' eagerly awaited album Endless to the shelves, which will initially be released in purely digital form.

Well, what can be expected from a progressive metal band that wants to appeal to fans of Tool , Opeth or Meshuggah ? Definitely bulky song structures as well as mantra-like guitar lines that rise above the majestic rhythm work in an unbelievable calm.

Impact meets majestic calm
Above all, this calm, which gives the music a tremendous impact, makes Endless so special. You don't let yourself be rushed or lost in instrumental caprioles, but move without hectic.

A representative sample is Helix , which you can see with a video HERE . In just under three quarters of an hour there is a lot to discover on Endless . The album and the music benefit enormously from the almost endless guitar lines and the not particularly complicated, but still present rhythm structures. Tool seems to have been a great inspiration, especially when it came to songwriting , without What the Five Fingers Said to the Face having a similar media effect and mysterious aura as their famous role models.

Ambient progressive metal in its purest form
Sometimes the songs suffer a bit from the overly obtrusively repetitive guitar lines like in WEEP and guitars and rhythm play a bit incoherently side by side. Endless is strong in the moments when they reflect on brute heaviness in the interplay with dreamy guitars like in RAW .

A central piece is certainly Threshold, which is more than eight minutes long . There isn't anything to be heard here that wasn't already present in the previous course of the album, one or the other edge is set too much in a continuous loop here, as well as the transitions are sometimes not quite conclusive. Nevertheless, What the Five Fingers said to the Face flex their muscles again and help the listener enormously in deciding whether they should give Endless another listen.

Conclusion
The fourth output Endless of the progressive metallers What the Five Fingers Said to the Face has sometimes become too cumbersome. Nevertheless, the lover of Progressive Metal, which gets its atmosphere from the repetition of guitar figures, will find delicious ear food here. 8/10 soundmagnet

Release Date: February, 23rd, 2023

FFO: Tool, Opeth, Ulver, Meshuggah

Location: Oslo, Norway

Short Bio: What the Five Fingers said to the Face is a Oslo - based band from Norway, its members consisting of Audun Muller on drums, Benjamin Hagaas on bass and Stein Himsett on guitars and vocals. They started What the Five Fingers said to the Face in 2011 to create music/art as a form of expression, but also as spiritual practice and a tool for self fulfillment. After a while they found, to their astonishment, that their music could be used to contact other levels of reality and the beings that inhabit them, as well as give them voice. They used this ability to its full extent in the recording of “Endless” both as a transformative art piece for ourselves, but also (as the record clearly shows)”Something” came through. It created sounds that are seemingly there and not there at the same time. Something is speaking through these songs. This being said, the music is undoubtedly affected by recent losses of loves ones, the trauma of the Covid 19 pandemic, their own need to heal from these events and become the artists they need to be. For those with the eyes to see and ears to hear it, the album can also serve as manual for how to do this in one’s own life. Investigations into the nature of reality, our own connections to said reality, consciousness and a seemingly “Other” world from ours through a combination of music and ritual.

They have played at Oslo Beikmørke (Château Neuf) , at Svart Oktober Fest with bands such as Solstorm and Sagor Som Leder Mot Slutet , shared stages with Primitive Man, Grinding Fortune, Sharma and a number of other bands and venues.

Their most recent album, “Endless “, is our fourth release and second full album.

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