Fliege, the Brooklyn, NY-based “blackened hair metal” band that surprised us in 2016 with their self-titled demo based on David Cronenberg’s remake of The Fly, have announced their first full-length album The Invisible Seam, which will be released January 31.
The title track of the album is out now, and along with it, a bit of insight into the premise of the record as a whole. No longer considering themselves a bit of an inside joke, Fliege have set their sights on a concept album based on Ingmar Bergman’s 1957 film The Seventh Seal.
“[The Seventh Seal is] the story of a Swedish knight returning home from the Crusades to find his homeland ravaged by the plague. He challenges Death to a game of chess, staving off his advances long enough to make it home one last time—questioning mortality, the meaning of life, and the existence of God while trekking across a dying countryside. Within the framework of that film, we tackle the nihilism of modern life and the paradox of depression—not wanting to live but not actively wanting to die.”
Coleman Bentley, Fliege
The duo, comprised of Coleman Bentley (guitars, clean vocals, drum programming, samples) and Peter Rittweger (unclean vocals), also elected to add in a third member to the Fliege clan for The Seventh Seal—synth player Chris Palermo. The album’s credits include mixing by Gabriel Espinosa at Winterbeast and mastering by Brad Boatright at AudioSiege, both in Portland, OR.
