Rome - World In Flames (2024)

Formát: CD, Album
Žánr: Rock, Folk
Styl: Dark Folk / Neo Folk

• After the release of the enthralling long player 'Gates of Europe' (2023), a concept album on Russia's ongoing assault on Ukraine, and a subsequent extensive European tour, Jerome Reuter - mastermind and frontman of ROME - withdrew from world affairs for a while, only to come back with a fresh and compact musical incursion.

• The obvious thematic inspiration of this gem does not by any means diminish its impact on the listener. 'World in Flames' is a drastic work that has been reduced to the bare and brute essentials. In contrast to many previous albums, 'World in Flames' is not an intimate drama, but rather a ruthless and unsparing dissection of the modern world.

• Indeed, much like the world itself, this powerful mini-album is divided into two parts. Brutal industrial sounds meet carefully crafted songwriting endowed with a lyrical quality that has become the hallmark of ROME. In these songs, Reuter meticulously traces the collapse of civilization as we know it.

• What distinguishes ROME's artistic soul from other contemporary writers is the unapologetic relentlessness of its very own poetics of the divide.
• Prophetic? A wake-up call!