01. All Eyes on the Earth
02. Latency and Tendencies
03. The Little Albert Experiment
04. Lost in Our Escape
05. Screen Scenarios
06. Spineless
07. Reflections
08. The Counter Shift
09. Infinitely Inward
10. City Limits
11. Dispose of Your Optimism
12. Clockwork
[12/13/11]
[Myriad Records]
You may know Chris Baretto; he used to be in Periphery, and is currently in Ever Forthright and Friend For a Foe. Over the course of a few months, Ever Forthright released single after single, seemingly teasing us. Now we finally have their self-titled debut record, released at the tail end of last year. Does it deserve to be considered with 2011′s great records?
Compared to how awesome last week’s pile of releases was, this week’s doesn’t really hit as hard. However, we do see the release of the debut Friend For A Foe EP. It’s about time! Before I get into that though, here’s this week’s new releases.
Absu – Abzu (Candlelight)
The Browning – Burn This World (Earache)
Friend for a Foe – Source Of Isolation (Myriad)
Jane’s Addiction – The Great Escape Artist (Capitol)
La Dispute – Wildlife (No Sleep)
Wayne Static – Pighammer (Dirthouse)
Alright, back to Friend for a Foe. You can stream Source Of Isolation below and download it via Bandcamp. If you don’t remember, FFaF are a Washington DC based band featuring Chris Barretto (ex-Periphery) on vocals, and he does a killer job. If that isn’t a strong selling point, I don’t know what is.
Friend For A Foe have sort of always been in the background, rustling about with hints of music and news for the last couple of years, making waves when they landed ex-Periphery vocalist Chris Barretto as their frontman. At long last, a much anticipated release is on the horizon that is sure to bring them into the spotlight, as they’ve signed with Myriad Records for their debut EP, Source of Isolation. Myriad, current home of Australian experimental and technical death metal band The Schoenberg Automaton, will be offering a free/pay what you want download of Source of Isolation on their Bandcamp page Saturday, October 1st.
Founding member and guitarist/producer Chris Purvis had this to say:
After over a year of recording and rerecording the same songs, dealing with equipment issues, managing the day to day trials and tribulations, and juggling my military service, we’re pleased to finally release our EP to the masses in partnership with Myriad Records! We’re very excited to release this EP through them as they’re the offspring of our management company Demise Management (so it keeps everything “in the family”). They have a solid business structure and are ethically sound in that they don’t suppress creativity for the sake of scene or encourage “cookie-cutter” writing just because “it works”. These guys really do work for the band vice the band working for them so it has been an absolute pleasure getting to know and work with the guys and I personally recommend other bands check them out. They’re an up-and-coming label that is sure to be a force to be reckoned with down the line so stay tuned for what the future holds for them!
Despite this only being an EP, we’ve had more issues finalizing our first release than most band’s have releasing a full-length album, but it just goes to show that persistence and patience pays off. We sincerely hope everyone enjoys our first release and we can only recommend you keep listening as new material we’re already working on is even better!
The track-listing for the Source of Isolation EP is as follows;
01. Intro
02. The Sky & The Fall
03. Idle Hands
04. For Less
05. Vultaggio
06. Niacin
07. Fallout
It won’t be too long before you can hear this thing in its entirety, but we’ve been kindly hooked up with a pre-production version of their track “For Less” for streaming/sexing below:
I don’t know about you, but I’m pretty excited. Be on the lookout for Source of Isolation when it drops October 1st on Myriad Records!
Friend For A Foe, the melodic djent band featuring ex-Periphery vocalist Chris Barretto (whom I hear is no longer in Haunted Shores?! The fuck?) has finally posted their first complete song, titled “Niacin”. The song is pretty catchy, so it’s worth checking out. You can stream and download “Niacin” (and other songs) over at SoundClick.
Ever Forthright 
Good band, terrible photoshop
