Prepare to have your mind and all its secrets blown away! Fickle Hill spills ‘Secrets’, a scorching, sonically brilliant, prog rock/metal track.
The track feels deeply personal and gripping in the best way that intelligent rock music can. Listeners would sense echoes of bands like Opeth, Tool, Disturbed, SOAD, just to name a few. James, the visionary force behind Fickle Hill, is a veteran musician and is now forging his own way, transmuting his experience, knowledge, and range into superbly immersive, intricately crafted rock music.
‘Secrets’ is an ode to the darkness that lives within us all. The track opens soulfully, with deep basslines, striking percussions and soulful harmonies, and a conversational tone from a darker place.
‘I’m just a vice, autumn night
Dressed in cloaks of unright
Restless issues in my head’
The vocals are sincere, brimming with purpose & urgency. Building tension as it flows forward. You can sense something earth-shattering coming your way already. And when it does, it freaaking blows you away!
The chorus, is a drop of sugically controlled anarchy, amplified with raging screams, thunderous rhythms and monstrous riffs. Capturing the intensity, when that darkest moment of being comes into prescence –
(Oh yeah!)
They came to visit me, they knocked at my door
I let them in
The darkest one, thought, thought dead
Once again, they’re in my head
Midway, the track descends into absolute mayhem. An aching shout, ‘Their in my head!! ‘ takes us into a valley of heavy riffs, shredded with purposeful strokes, layers of guitar twist in wicked tandems, and vocals escalate to a crescendo. With fantastic control, the track blasts through another chorus before concluding on a strong note!
This is a track for adrenaline-filled moments of catharsis and release. Rarely can it be said that a track feels so compelling to listen to that, you’d sit in silence a few moments after this one and reflect. Yet, this track is just the first on a full-length album release, ‘Future in the Mirror’. This album comprises 16 tracks and is more than just music; it is a reflection of life, memory, and uncertainty about the future.
James, ever the muscial maverick refuses to be caged or limited by a genre or stereotypical musical style. And thats no secret.
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