FLIGHT - A Leap Through Matter LP (Preorder)

NB! Preorder item, January 29.

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to reissue the second album of Norway’s FLIGHT, A Leap Through Matter, on vinyl LP format.

To call Norway’s FLIGHT “retro” or “vintage” is to miss the point. Since their formation in 2012, the quartet have walked the fine line between effortless and studious – a throwback to ‘70s proto-metal, sure, but done with such vigor and authenticity that even the most skeptical listener would be helpless to resist being whisked away some four decades into the past. Simply, their music exists in that same vacuum when ROCK conquered all: be it “hard rock,” FM rock, the dawn of “heavy metal,” or especially anything retroactively “proto-metal,” FLIGHT bring the past into the present and write understated-yet-invigorating rockers that draw from a very rich (and very idiosyncratic) history.

FLIGHT’s self-titled debut album, released in 2015, was a statement of sorts: stripped to the barest essentials, Flight was the most direct journey back to said ‘70s, warm and rustic and heartfelt and handmade. Hot-rockin’ ruled the day, which made the album’s follow-up, 2018’s A Leap Through Matter, all the more surprising – and enduring. Forecasted by its sci-fi cover artwork, A Leap Through Matter does what it says on the tin, winding and wending through alien terrains previously undreamt of on Flight. Granted, the transition isn’t quite as jarring as it sounds; rather, FLIGHT patiently broach the proggier borders of their still-entrenched-in-the-‘70s style and do so with more delicate dynamics and delayed-gratification hooks. Likewise, energy still abounds, but it’s a cleaner pulse almost akin to Steely Dan, and they flex their prodigious chops in dazzling ways ala Camel, providing texture and narrative in equal measure. That the band’s primary influences – quartet-era Thin Lizzy, Uli Jon Roth-era Scorpions, the first couple Rainbow records, any UFO ones, or earliest Riot – are more fully or at least more subtly integrated speaks volumes about the Norwegians’ craftsmanship. And while it’s unjust to see it strictly as a transition record, A Leap Through Matter certainly set the stage for the ambitious storytelling of 2023’s critically acclaimed Echoes of Journeys Past.

Following the long-overdue reissue of FLIGHT’s debut album on vinyl, DYING VICTIMS now also makes A Leap Through Matter available on vinyl for the first time in nearly a decade. Spread the wings of your imagination and take A Leap Through Matter! 

Black vinyl with insert, poster, sticker, post card & download code

Dying Victims Prod. 2027