Exclusive Track Premiere: “Four Suns” by Fliege

Wanna kick off your 2020 with a tinnitus-inducing BANG!? Well, dear friends, you’ve come to the right place! For us metal scholars here at MetalSucks cannot think of a band that more aptly reflects the start of this new decade than Brooklyn’s Fliege: they defy easy categorization, they’re pop-culture savvy deconstructionists, and they have a sense of humor without being a “joke” band.

Also, they’re fucking awesome.

All of these virtues are on glorious display in “Four Suns,” from the band’s debut full-length, The Invisible Seam. The genre-bending track seamlessly blends elements of death metal, black metal, industrial, and even pop into something that’s tantalizingly fresh, magnetic, and endlessly re-listenable. The Invisible Seam was inspired by Ingmar Bergman’s 1957 arthouse classic The Seventh Seal (you may know it as the movie satirized by Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey), and “Four Suns” is a fittingly Bergman-esque mix of epic and intimate. Like we said, it’s fucking awesome.

Says Fliege guitarist Coleman Bentley of the track:

“‘Four Suns,’ as they say in Hollywood, is our threshold to adventure—a fitting intro to both Fliege and the world of ‘The Seventh Seal,’ marked for death by forces beyond understanding. Following Antonious Block, medieval knight, and his squire as they embark on a journey home from the crusades, it’s an OSDM-tinged banger that paints a picture of world a in rot. Graves overfed. Doors painted red. Eyeless corpses gazing up at a quartet of flaming stars that will soon burn them alive. Sound familiar? It should.”

Crank “Four Suns” below! Fliege’s The Invisible Seam comes out January 31, and can be pre-ordered here. We also highly recommend their 2017 demo, which was inspired by David Cronenberg’s version of The Fly — which is why the band’s name is the German word for “fly”!