Icarus Burns – Icarus Burns

 

 

Icarus Burns – Icarus Burns
Self-released / Feather & Wax Records – 2025
Rock, Metal, Prog, Post, Sludge, Psych, Stoner, Instrumental
Rated: ****

Berlin, Germany based four-piece Icarus Burns are about to release their debut album with the same name and which already made the January Doom Charts. And rightfully so, for the follow-up to the 2021 titleless EP comes fully formed and with grand ideas about what Icarus Burns should always be about. Their metal is rife with atmosphere and grand gestures. Fitting for a band and album inspired by myth. Fitting for a band who self-releases their album under a label named Feather & Wax Records, keeping perfectly in synch with their chosen band name. But where the myth spells doom for Icarus, the band never flies too close to the sun. They know exactly how far they can take their compositions, and how to perfectly blend the different genres. Expect their diverse and intense sound to house parts of post rock and metal as well as sludge and stoner. Progressive by default, the pulse and beat of what you hear in opening track Minotaur continues in following track Die Werft. Both riddled with rays of lights as well as menacing bursts of dirty thunder. The soothing ebb and flow beginning of following Melancholia is soon distorted by an even filthier rumble. A Distant Light / In The Darkness has minor echoes of bands you already adore, but because they keep their tones more metallic and the scope wider, those never soak the composition to much. Trännen der Sonne gives rise to moments of a more Floydian interpretation of metal, using doom touches and sludge tones to make you feel those tears fall down, before they become a heavy curtain.100 Days ends the fifty minute long instrumental metal mythos, offering an even more atmospheric and cinematic closer to all that already came before. With almost twelve minutes that one track houses everything Icarus Burns is about at this moment in time. Pandora’s Box has been opened and within it was no evil torment, but a love affair with legendary metal, transforming ancient inspiration into something dazzling and completely for our modern age. Where Icarus Burns will go from here seems entirely of their making, for they already seem to know how high they can fly…

(Written by JK)

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