Bandcamp “Patricidal black metal” is how Rosa Faenskap describe themselves, and the term is more precise than it first appears. Patricide is not rebellion against authority in the abstract. It is the specific act of killing what raised you. Ingenting Forblir, Norwegian for “nothing endures,” is an album about watching the world you were raised in become hostile. Not a sudden collapse, but a slow degradation: hate, injustice, dehumanization creeping in where safety used to be. The sophomore record from this Oslo power trio is darker than their debut Jeg blir til deg, and it earns the darkness.
The band plays fast and aggressive on the analyzed material, but the tempo alone does not capture what makes this work. Rosa Faenskap blend black metal, hardcore, post-rock, and prog without letting any single element take over. The transitions between modes are where the songs live. A blast beat section dissolves into a post-rock passage that dissolves into a hardcore breakdown, and none of it feels like genre tourism because the emotional register stays consistent. The anger does not change shape when the tempo does.
Emil Vestre handles guitar and vocals alongside Havard Solli on bass and vocals, the dual-vocal setup giving the band a range that a solo vocalist could not cover. Anders Jansvik’s drumming is the engine, driving the faster sections with a physicality that keeps the post-rock moments from drifting too far into atmosphere. The production by Oskar Johnsen Rydh captures the trio’s dynamics without smoothing them out: the quiet parts are genuinely quiet, and the loud parts hit with the force of a band playing in a room rather than a studio.
“Jeg vakner snart” closes the album at nine and a half minutes, the longest track and the one where the genre blending reaches its fullest expression. The title means “I wake up soon,” which could be a promise or a plea depending on how much of the preceding six songs you have absorbed. By the time it arrives, the album has moved from poetic to analytical to brutally honest, and the final track gathers all three into something that feels less like a conclusion and more like an exhausted pause before the next wave.
The mix is balanced with a mid-range focus, the distortion raw and dense but controlled. The tempo runs fast on the analyzed tracks, keeping the energy high without sacrificing clarity. Bass frequencies provide weight without dominating, and the guitar work occupies the mid-range with a textured distortion that retains harmonic complexity. The dual vocals are well-separated in the mix. The production retains genuine dynamic range, which is critical for a band that moves between post-rock quiet and black metal intensity within single songs. The loudness is pushed but not crushed.
Standout tracks: “Jeg vakner snart” for the nine-minute closer that earns every minute of its runtime. “Den svake mannen” for the opening statement that establishes the record’s emotional range in five minutes. “Klarhet i kaos” because the title, clarity in chaos, is exactly what the song delivers.
Rosa Faenskap tag themselves as queer metal, and that identity runs through the record not as a theme but as a perspective: the view from a position that watches normalcy curdle into something threatening. Ingenting Forblir is not a hopeful album, but it is not a defeated one either. Nothing endures, the title says, and that includes the things that are breaking. The destruction is not permanent. Neither is the safety. The band knows which side of that equation they are on, and they play like it matters.
