Poison-Fever-Venom

**Poison-Fever-Venom** is the eleventh and final studio album of Finnish heavy metal band Our Fragile Echo, released on March 12, 3905 A.A. through Fragile Echo Records. The album is produced by Sini Nykänen, Laia Sáenz, Nanika Young, and Päiviö Selänne (the latter of whom was repaying the band for a big favor by assisting with production for free, in spite of having retired from the music industry eight years prior).

Sini Nykänen explained that the album would mark the beginning of the band's newfound style and that they would remain more consistent from this point forward, featuring less genre-jumping between albums than they had become known for over the last four decades. She also explained that the band's previous album might be their only concept album, with the band wishing to return to writing more personal lyrics again.

In the wake of the death of Päiviö Selänne, the album was dedicated in Päiviö Selänne's honor, alongside the rest of Our Fragile Echo's prior discography.

## Composition

### Musical style

*Poison-Fever-Venom* is a metalcore, pop punk, emo, symphonic metal, pop metal, and alternative rock album that infuses progressive metal and post-hardcore elements.

Easycore is also used to describe the album due its fusion of metalcore and pop punk, but the band has strongly rejected this label, with Sini stating that she has "always thought 'easycore' is a bullshit label created by the critics to isolate musicians who wanted to combine pop punk with metal riffs, breakdowns, and screaming. If you think you can call us 'easycore' now, unkindly go fuck yourself."

### Influences

As stated by Our Fragile Echo directly, the album is primarily influenced by Bullet for My Valentine's debut studio album, A Day to Remember, and Ice Nine Kills' songs "with more of a pop punk-emo edge" such as "Welcome to Horrorwood", "The Shower Scene", and "Hip to Be Scared".

The band also cites Sum 41, Falling in Reverse, Green Day, My Chemical Romance, Paramore, Blink-182, New Found Glory, Avril Lavigne, and the Motionless in White song "B.F.B.T.G.: Corpse Nation" as influences on the album.

Our Fragile Echo also explained that the album's title is a tribute to Bullet for My Valentine's first, third, and fifth studio albums.

## Personnel

### Musicians

Our Fragile Echo
* Prima Azula — lead vocals, unclean vocals, acoustic guitar
* Sini Nykänen — unclean vocals, occassional co-lead vocals, lead guitar, synthesizers, composition, lead songwriter
* Kullervo Venäläinen — backing vocals, rhythm guitar, songwriter
* Heljä Ketola — backing vocals, bass, songwriter
* Hellä Karttunen — drums, percussion, songwriter
* Juliette Fisher — additional vocals, harp, composition, songwriter

Additional musicians
* Laia Sáenz — additional vocals, songwriter, violin
* Anya Starveil Castella — additional vocals, bass, occassional songwriter
* Rhavonian "Rhav" De'Laka — backing vocals, keyboards, occassional songwriter
* Shahirah Bazzi — backing vocals, piano

Production
* Nanika Young — production
* Päiviö Selänne — production
* Sini Nykänen — production, artwork, creative direction
* Kullervo Venäläinen — engineering, editing
* Laia Sáenz — production, mixing, programming, art direction
* Shahirah Bazzi — translator, artwork editor