Furnace - The Casca Trilogy [3CD]

Format:  3 x CD
Catalogue No.: DOCC024
Barcode: 5051083194006
Release Date: 12 May 2023
Genre: Metal

 Furnace were formed in 2019 by Swedish metal master guitarist Rogga Johansson (Paganizer, Revolting, Stygian Dark, Massacre, Heir Corpse One, To The Gallows, Ribspreader, Warmagic and many, many more) and bass player Peter Svensson (Assassin’s Blade, Void Moon), based on their mutual love for horror fantasy concept albums. Musically, Furnace follow in the strong tradition of melodic death metal in the style of Edge Of Sanity and Cemetary, combined with early 1990s goth / doom metal elements of bands like Paradise Lost and Amorphis.
 ‘The Casca Trilogy’ is the band’s fourth full length release, following ‘Black Stone Church’ (2020), ‘Dark Vistas’ (2020) and ‘Stellarum’ (2022). Keeping with Furnace tradition, the album is a full out concept album covering three discs. Thus, the album’s concept story spans three different historical ages, one for each disc. The story follows Casca Rufio Longinus, a Roman legionary who kills Jesus on the cross, is treated as a pariah by all, and is cursed to live forever as a mercenary and transferred to the northern parts of the Roman Empire where he battles the Germanic barbarians.
 The second CD features Casca over 1000 years later, as a guard on a French monastery in England, attacked by Vikings, and the third CD sees Casca another ten centuries later, as officer in the British Army during World War I, facing the horrors of trench warfare.
 Johansson and Svensson are joined by Lars Demoke on drums, and the albums also features guest vocals from Dave Ingram (Benediction, Bolt Thrower). 
 For fans of Edge Of Sanity, Paradise Lost, Dismember, Tiamat, Katatonia, Paganizer, Amorphis, Benediction, Cemetary, Unleashed, Sentenced and Revolting.

Tracklisting
CD1 ‘Legionary’
Legionary
Another Execution
Until We Meet Again
Shadows On A Moonless Night
Brink Of Mortality
Cursed With Life
The Savage North
Where Life And Death Unite
The Evermore
Sworn To Wander
CD2 ‘Thralls And Blot’
Where The Sea Meets The Sky
Wrath Of The North
Death By Decree
Thrall
Beneath The Sky (Our Torment)
Midvinterblot
In Hell Together
Blood Eagle
Land Of The Pettr (Pictland)
Only Time
CD3 ‘The Guns Of August’
Two Thousand Years
Visions Of Glory
Trench Warfare
P.O.W.s
In The Eyes Of A Dreary Winter
Armistice
A War Of Attrition
Kill Or Capture
Alone With Bullets
War Is My Destiny