Fear Of Darkness

 

Records released by Bristol Archive Records is always worth to give them a listen. Mostly they dive deep into Bristol's music scene from former times and they bring forgotten musical treasures to light. This was also the case this time, when they released a record by Fear Of Darkness that provides an overview of the band's work from 1986 to 1988.

FOD were a band whose appearance alone showed their affiliation with gothic and dark wave. Sometimes they sound like a mixture of The Alarm and The Clash with their distorted guitar sound, other times like the little brother of the Sisters Of Mercy. Which is basically not a bad thing. An album by an unjustly forgotten band that could have been big with the right promotion.