Atmospheric Catalan Metal band Foscor have been quiet for four years, having released their last album in the Fall of 2019. Touring was cut short before the band could even set off due to Covid. The group took the opportunity to grow and evolve on their own time.

Their name means “darkness”, but the band have shifted away from the second wave Black Metal that ushered in their first two albums. Now they’ve released the single “Solitud”, which moves further into clean vocals and heavy riffs.       

“Solitud” was originally recorded during the sessions for Els Sepulcres Blancs, but for the band, the song “encapsulates the prevailing loneliness of the pandemic.”

Foscor shares about the track, which features lyrics in their native language:

The song itself offers a vital closure. This song is a proper way to close that album cycle before definitely facing and closing the trilogy initiated in 2017 with Les Irreals Visions. It reminds us the spark to enlighten the future…the one that we have never walked alone. A brand new chant from the past, looking toward a final chapter, surrounded by tragic darkness.   

The Catalan band is still strongly connected to the fin de siècle cultural movement of Modernisme, a parallel development to Art Nouveau and Jugendstil, among others. In Modernisme, visual things must “acquire a new secret appearance,” and Foscor change “a sick world and society” through “the land of dreams.”