FOR THE STORMS is a Post Doom-Death/Sludge metal project born in 2019 in Brescia (Italy).The project comes from the necessity and desire to narrate one's experiences, thoughts, and conjectures on existence and non-existence.
The music, born as a simple outlet, has now evolved into a much more mature self-analysis, culminating in a poetic-philosophical exposition on mortality, change, and individual definition.
The band's music writing is hardly classifiable in a classic list of metal subgenres, and it fits perfectly into what seems to be
a new wave that has developed in recent years from sludge and doom, as well as hardcore and post-metal, especially in central and northern Europe.
The style characterized by contrasting sounds, heavy riffs, and expansive atmospheres ranging from the heaviness of a thousand mountains to the lightness of emptiness.
This emerging genre, besides being a hybrid taking a lot from other subgenres, also constitutes a sensitive deepening of artistic meaning and values contemporary and
traditional culture and personal feelings, pushing back against the superficiality and ignorance that seem to stir in today’s music.
"Music is not just a passion but a way of being, a reason for living.
We all have different backgrounds in terms of personal, emotional, and professional spheres.
However, an invisible thread connects us, binds us, and keeps us closely united in one goal:
Saying something meaningful and to spreading our music, allowing it to be appreciated by those who are willing to engage in listening to something profound,
with lyrics dense in meaning and unique sounds that draw from classic but revisited doom in a modern key with experimental ambient hints winking at many different styles."
For The Storms - Losing What's Left Of Us | MMR048
Losing What’s Left of Us is a minimalistic album in which every note has been carefully picked in order to convey a sense of dissolution and austere loss.
The album is divided in three stylistically differentiated chapters arked by the two different interludes.
The three chapters show a progressive hybridization of the main musical influences as some sort of inherent entropy.
The album as a whole also presents a somewhat symmetrical and quasi-fractal hidden structure that is meant to
symbolically keep the underlying balance of life itself without compromising the whole downhill concept we tried to tackle.
Losing What’s Left of Us is both a dirge for the fleeting trail of tombs we leave on this earth as we are passing by
and an ode to the uncertainty and transience we cannot leave behind.
released October 12, 2024.