As the attentive reader will undoubtly know, Cascadia is an area that also gave much inspiration to the mighty Wolves in the throne room, wich can be found elsewhere in this blog. Having stated as much, I think its safe to say that fans of the aforementioned band will also find something interresting in Fauna.
Like Wolves in the throne room, Fauna can also be described as eco-centric in that they deal with the sorrow and desloation, the pristine beauty and kill or be killed ethics of nature.
Both records have only one track on them, but the tracks tick in at (and this is where the Dopesmoker comparrison comes up) 1 hour, 3 minuttes and 18 seconds (Rain), and 1 hour, 19 minuttes and 57 seconds (The hunt). Thus, it should be clear that this is not the kind of record that you just put on and listen superficially to. Rain for example, kicks off with a six minutte field recording of rain falling in the forest. After this, it changes into an acoustic part, with eerily sung clean vocals, and after about 22 minuttes launches itself into pure black metal mayhem.
The hunt is equally mastodontic in its size, but unlike Rain, it is divided into seven sections (the record is still one track though). The sections, titles, and sectionlenghts are as follows:
1. The Door 05:43
2. Hunger 08:33
3. Setting Out 11:23
4. The Scent 17:32
5. Nocturne 04:45
6. Tracking 09:07
7. The Kill... Fulfillment 14:44
Enough said.
Rain - 2006:
The hunt - 2007:
