FURNACE return with their highly anticipated seventh full-length album “Echoes of a Distant Future”. The Swedish melodic death metal act unveils a new chapter in their ongoing conceptual saga, continuing the narrative first introduced on “Trojan Hearse” (2024), and delivering another crushing, story-driven opus rooted in atmosphere and intensity.
On “Echoes of a Distant Future”, Furnace once again embrace the concept album format in full. Picking up directly from its predecessor, the story follows a protagonist escaping Hell through a mysterious machine, only to awaken in a distant, dystopian future where alien forces secretly dominate humanity. As he is drawn into a resistance movement, the album explores themes of survival, identity, and the enduring question of whether mankind can reclaim its fate.
1. Shores of Oblivion
2. Vast Horizons
3. Refracted City Lights
4. The Enemy of My Enemy
5. Semblance of Sanity
6. This Engine Runs on Spite
7. Betrayal
8. Cathedral Gates
9. 61 Cygni
10. Astral Ascension