If you were looking for a progressive journey to take on this weekend, look no further – enter Finte’s Wei Das Endliche Treibt.
To start, the German quartet’s main ingredients are post-hardcore, progressive metal, and mathcore, often bridged with emotive, borderline cinematic post-rock.
It’s a tasty mix, and “Bastion,” the album’s premier single, illustrates this perfectly as its math-y groove starts to sizzle with fuzzy riffs and larynx-shredding screams. Above all, it’s a great time – check it out below.
There’s a lot of juice in the machine with this one – the amount of ideas Finte effortlessly spits out is impressive, bringing to mind cantankerous contemporaries like Destrage, Slice the Cake, and early Sikth. Songs like “Zahlen” and Zersetzung” also bring to mind the experimental shred of everybody’s favorite party / genre smashers, The Dillinger Escape Plan, with a hint of Norma Jean.
But for all of these lofty references, there’s an original, earthy sense of soul beneath as well, and it’s what makes Wei Das Endliche Treibt so worth it overall. Finte has delivered a diverse, unpredictable progressive journey, and it gives its so much to chew on, we’ll likely be coming back for seconds.
Maybe even thirds.
Check out Wei Das Endliche Treibt in its entirety here, as it is finally out on Bandcamp. After that, splash us with a hot cuppa joe here sometimes! Yeah, right in the face. Our mouths, specifically. Anyway, coming up we’ve got a special couple of interview with a couple guitar / guitar effects experts you may have been hearing about.