ETERNAL HOURS OF CHILLING INSTRUMENTALS
Experimental metal duo The Body, Lee Buford and Chip King, teamed up with Dis Fig, Felicia Chen to release their first album together, Orchards of a Futile Heaven.
The project consists of seven songs, all of which are well crafted and individual, despite having a distinct style. The sound from The Body feels apocalyptic, which pairs extremely well with the soft, but haunting, vocals of Dis Fig.
The first song on the album, “Eternal Hours,” creates the world, with clashing sounds and complete chaos from the instrumental to the background vocals, and of course the recurring scream throughout not only the track, but the entire album.
The standout song on the album is “Dissent, Shame” with vocals from Dis Fig that feel genuinely soul crushing. Chen’s emotional performance over the entire track is beautiful, and only made better with a heart-pounding instrumental from the body that fuses their classic style of twisted metal with sounds with a futuristic feel, creating a tone individual to this track.
Chen’s ability to tap into a wide range of vocals truly makes listening to the album an experience. In some songs, her voice is soft and ghastly, but in others, her voice can convey a plethora of emotions, ranging from anger to extreme grief. The Body create this world for her to live in with her voice, and it is beautiful.
The Body and Dis Fig want this album to be something palpable, creating sounds that last longer than just the runtime, and they were absolutely successful. Listening to this project is unsettling at times, it is something absolutely genre-bending.
The goal in a collaboration like this is to combine styles to create a new one, and that’s what The Body and Dis Fig have done with Orchards of a Futile Heaven. The techno-distortion of the metal genre comes to a clash with the tremendous vocal performance from Chen, ultimately colliding for what is an impressive, thought-provoking and well delivered piece of music.
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