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Band
: Flames of Misery
Title :
Keys of Knowledge
Material : cd-R
Label : Autoprod
Year : 2002.
Reviewed by : hssh
Note :
Flames
of Misery : Keys of Knowledge / 7 tracks (Laurent Zaessinger)
2002 One man's band from France ! This is very difficult to review
this stuff because Laurent Zaessinger plays a musik which cannot
be classified. No guitars or drums there but keyboards and vokals
only ! No samples to give fullness to this opus. Laurent is looking
for "purity through misanthropy and abhorrence". So,
all tracks are purified from all others instruments except the
vokals mixed with keyboards and Gregory Schmid add vokals on track
4 and 6. This is a professionnal material with a quite sound recording.
That's all for technikal informations. The composition is influenced
with orchestral classic music and all god believers could say
that L.Zaessinger make an an awful row. But it's better than this.
The "Keys of Knowledge" is original, sick, dark and
sometimes it sound like an evil tale. This opus is a war against
hypocrisy of humanity and an ode to the individualist thoughts
for knowledge. Lyrics talk about childhood innocence , murder
desires, human cowardice, revenge and desillusion, and a lot of
things about baseness and ignobleness of human beings. You could
appreciate this material when you listen to bands like Eros Necropsique
or old Mortiis. But this is not a medieval approach or gothik
trend. There is no metal touch too ! So, you will love or hate
it. I think there is no other alternative. It's elistist...definitively
!!!
Contacts : Laurent
Zaessinger - 1, impasse des vergers - 68720 Luemschwiller - france
; Gregory Schmid - 27, pass Mar Joffre - 68260 Kingersheim -France
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Band
: Forge
Title : War the
Only World's Hygiene
Material : cd-R
Label : Autoprod
Year : 2001.
Reviewed by : hssh
Note :
Forge
: War the Only World's Hygiene / 7 tracks (Vidar/Taliesin/F(t)M/Massengrab)
/ june 2001.This is a cd-r opus with a pro kover ! They play black
industrial musik and their madness could reach all of you when
you need other sounds than typical "pure" black metal
musik. This is experimental sometimes, of course. But the whole
still remembers their black metal influences. A lot of samples
are there to strengthen the structure. This is very dark and martial
with the machines rythms use : sick and great ! Very tortured.
When you listen to Darkthrone, In Slaughter Natives, Laibach or
G.G.F.H. and Rammstein you should have to listen to Forge too.
Are you ready to musikal war ? So, listen to their message written
on their cd : "In truth hell you that daily visit to museums,
libraries and academies are, for artists, as damaging as the prolonged
supervision by parents of certain young people drunk with their
talent and their ambitious wills. When the future is barred to
them, the admirable past may be a solace for the ills of the moribund,
the sickly, the prisoner. But we want no part of it, the past,
we the young and strong futurists".
Contacts :
Forge Available ! (go to the Diahableries Association Section)
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Band
: Furor Gallicum
Title : 100 % French
black metal (sampler)
Material : cd-R
Label : Brutal Druid
Prods
Year : 2004.
Reviewed by : hssh
Note :
Furor
Gallicum : 100 % French black metal (sampler). CD-R 2004. Brutal
Druid Prods. A good idea from Brutal Druid Prods with this sampler
: 16 l black metal bands from France which are more or less underground.
You probably know a lot of them if you are into the extreme underground
but that's still a new opportunity to present them anyway: Ases
: The return of the ancient lust / Die by Pagan wrath. I like
this band definitvely ! This is what the black metal has to be
! Powerful, unhealthy, sick, brutal, hateful with a lot of great
melodic and rythmics guitars. A masterpiece ! Otargos : Hordes
/ Demon's march. Good riffs and various parts for this extreme
black metal band. Not original but pleasant. Breizh Occult : Occult
Manes / Odin. Raw black metal without compromise. Aura Noire :
Sombre chevauchée. Melodic and fast black metal with sick
psychotic vocals. Dark Funeral influences sometimes, bewitching
guitars and melodic bass parts. Devilish Era : The Satirical Enigma
/ Under the Aegis of the Megahropist. Influenced by Burzum. Same
sick vocals and excellent rythmics. I found sadness, sickness,
darkness and melancholy, depressive and cruel atmospheres. A masterpiece
again ! Eternal Rest : Ithaqua Ode / L'éternel Combat.
The band begins with an ode to Ithaqua and it sounds like a call
to Ulysse Land. Black metal with strongly thrash metal influences
there ! Then, L'éternel Combat follow this way. A mixture
of black and thrash metal. Very melodic sometimes. Osirion : Demetrios
Poliorcete Depraved King of Macedon / The secret of the black
art. The first track is a Sapaudiae war without any compromise.
It's true and glorifying the greats spirits of History. The second
track is a cover of Dark Funeral. Nothing to add ! Epheles : Le
deuil des innocents. It was a long time ago I didnt listen to
this band and I have already said it was a great band by reviewing
their stuffs. I still have to say it's magic when I listen to
a new track from them. I hope that I could listen to a full lenght
opus this time. I'm waiting for it. Reverence : Thorn of Torment
/ Black spell of destruction. Typical black metal with Bathory
and Graveland influences. Pleasant but not new ! I think they
have to progress, especially with their drummer. It reminds Infernum
and Pagan Eternal that I reviewed for Diahableries Webzine. Their
second track is a Burzum cover. Pleasant but I prefer the original.
Sons of Fenriz : Le royaume légendaire / Les danseurs de
la spirale noire. Just one word : efficacious ! Ein Reich...Le
Royaume légendaire ! Sons of Fenriz plays black metal with
strong rythmics and without compromise ! Quite good sound enough
for this band coming from the East of France. Dance into darkness
with them ! Duaël : Roi des celtes / Seigneur des marais.
Black metal band influenced by Brittany History. Raw, dark, unhealthy
and epic. Taken from their second release. Edelweiss Noire : La
reine Isis / Verdun. Raw black metal with strong rythmics. Psychotic
vocals mixed with mid-tempo rythms sometimes at the beginning
and then fast parts follow. The second track seems to talk about
the Verdun city history with good riffs and hateful lyrics. But
I think they need a better sound to convince us. Judge by yourself
anyway ! Pleasant but not new again ! Deus Inversus : Kings of
a downfall cross / The darkest horizon. Vey raw sound production
for this extreme black metal band but I find it boring because
there is nothing that I feel with their music. Too much repetitive
! Just my opinion ! Insane Vesper : Repentance du Christ / The
shadow of Evil throne. Raw black metal with very fast parts and
melodic guitars riffs influenced by a lot of famous black metal
bands. The first track is very short and the whole is pleasant
but don't look for something new. Horrid Flesh : Chemical Assault.
Thrash black metal mixed with fast drums. Old Emperor and Dark
Funeral influences. Quite sound production. Eternal Majesty :
Frost. A famous track that almost people know into the underground.
This is Eternal Majesty and that's enough to say. Taken from their
first full lenght opus done under the Battleskrs banner. Do you
need it ? Ask us for it !
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