FUEHLER self-titled CD (Amanita) 11.98Here's the sole, quite hard-to-find, self-titled 1996 full length album from this little-known German trio, who (for whatever reason) totally fell off the radar after this was released. This is one of those albums that only a few people have had a chance to check out, and the band didn't last for very long apparently once this was released. It's a shame, because Fuehler is hands-down a masterpiece of metallic post-rock / instrumental metal, years before bands like Pelican and Isis and the like would take form. It's difficult to say just how hard this album RULES. Sort of like a more melodic, accessible (but no less complex) Don Caballero, but more epic sounding, as hypnotic drones and Glenn Branca-ish sheets of guitar noise blends with sweeping, droning metal, the sinlge-note drones of Tony Conrad, the hypno-rock bliss of Circle, the dynamics of Slint, and the angular heaviness of Voivod's prog metal. Fuehler still sounds as incredibly imaginative and fresh as it did when it was released, and we highly recommend it to anyone into post-rock, metallic post-rock, whatever...if you're into stuff like Switchblade, Mogwai, Isis, Pelican, Mare, Slint, etc., we can't imagine you not loving Fuehler.