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Band
: La Division Mentale
Title : L’extase
des fous [ introspection létale ]
Label : Blood Fire
Death / Twilight dist
Material : cd
Year : 2007
Reviewed by : HssH
Mark
: 5/5
When
black metal meets electro music, it makes an obscure and odd entity
called “La Division Mentale”. Ten oppressive tracks
created by Cypher with Babylone Chaos and Absent contribution
for the best result. Not sound in mind at all, this stuff sounds
like tormented feelings from a deranged subconscious and lost.
Dark, sick and dreamlike with hammered and recurred words such
as “Je suis condamné”, “la souillure”,
“le blaspheme”, it leads you in a clinical also maybe
psychiatric ectasy. Violence and sickness “über alles”
inside ! The mix of black metal, electro parts and samples addition
is as blameless as inventive and the production is quite good
enough to make an opinion. Harsh tech and black metal influences
make the whole very attractive and efficient. Also Cypher seems
to have an interest with horror movies sound-tracks because it
could easily remember you to a lot of them if you are in the habit
of this kind of movies. Then, Mriik with his harsh vocals and
“sick interpretation” intensifies the whole on strident
guitars mixed with hammered drums. Guests joined this sickness
: Mg (narration vox), also Yd (Absent) and Bk (Babylone Chaos)
for electro tracks. Creativeness, boldness and sickness are the
words to define “L’extase des fous”. A master
piece therefore !
Contact
:
Band :
www.myspace.com/ladivisionmentale
Label : www.myspace.com/bloodfiredeathproductions
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Band
: Lex Talionis
Title : Inhuman
Violence
Material :
cd
Label : Dead sun
records
Year : 2002.
Reviewed by : HSSH
Note :
Lex
Talionis : Inhuman Violence / 8 tracks (Jeremy/Pierre-Marie/Nicolas
Gleize/Yannick Morisset) 2002.This is the first opus of this french
metal band influenced by Nocturnus, Coroner and Yngwie Malmsteen.
It's very extreme sometimes bekause they use full blast drums
machines which sound as a tommy-gun and it's inkreased with death
metal vokals as Nocturnus did. But even if it is extreme they
mix this brutality with a lot of melodik guitars parts influenced
by Classic musik and add it to thrash or death metal guitars riffs.
Remember Yngwie Malmsteen. They mix lead guitars melodies and
sometimes keybords with harpsichord sound with their tommy-gun
drums machine and kreate unusual metal koncept like this. Also,
there is a lot of heavy metal breaks which prove they kan play
all kind of metal. It's a very interesting stuff when you can
appreciate musik without a real drummer bekause all musikal ingredients
are successfully mastered there. And what about Lex Talionis inspiration
? Well, they draw it from Cajus Julius Caesar, Charles Martel,
Louis XIV and Napoléon Ier historical past. Inhuman Violence
is out under the Dead Sun Records banner and their next opus will
be available by this label again.
Contacts : Dead
Sun Records ; Management/co-executive
production, X-Trem Dom@in Recs, appt 125, 258 av. demuret, 31300
Toulouse - France
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Band
: Lex Talionis
Title : The Supreme
Aggression
Material : cd
Label : Dead sun
records
Year : 2002.
Reviewed by : HSSH
Note :
Lex
Talionis / The Supreme Aggression / 8 tracks (Lex Talionis) 2003.
CD (pro) Sekond
release of this french band. Still sick, brutal and melodik with
a lot of good ideas and influences taken from Klassik musik repertory.
This band is very inventive. Imagine you kan mix Yngwee Malmsteen
and Nocturnus with blasting drums ! Lex Talionis is a band with
an affirmed musikal identity and I have to say this opus is a
sukcess. Teknikal powerful parts and varied breaks with a quite
sound rekording and excellent produktion. Nothing to add !...sublime
! A
Dead Sun Records
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Band
: LGB
Title : No plus
belles Années
Material : cd
Label : Scato prod
Year : 2003.
Reviewed by : HSSH
Note :
LGB
: Nos plus belles années (LGB) 2003.No, no, no, this is
not "french techno parade" !!! But it's a french band,
that's for sure ! This is not the new Tonton David or Pierrepoljack
too ! LGB plays funny grind kore and rekorded this stuff into
a french University. Raw sound rekording. They added some speech
to the end of this stuff and only the LGB lovers will appreciate
bekause they will understand it. When you are not into LGB attitude
delirium, you'll think this is boring and too much long. Please
note that I'm talking about the speech to the end of the stuff
and nothing else. All of the tracks have a "funny" interest
even if this is not sick or cheeky enough. Titles as Tchatcha,
Gling gling, Annonnn !!! look like a warning from a funny advisory
! The thanks list is wonderful too : Les Pov'mecs, J.C Vandamme,
Les Bidons d'Huile, Christophe Lambert, Laure Sinclair...LGB musicians
play good enough and I hope they will be more brassy to kreate
more "funny delirium variations" next time. I think
it will be done for a next opus...probably ! So, it's a good stuff
but not an excellent opus because we could expect more sick funny
parts...as the kover is and as I like it !
Contact : Scato
Prod
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Band
: LGB
Title :
Tendrement
Material : cd
Label : Scato prod
Year : 2004.
Reviewed by :
HSSH
Note :
LGB
: Tendrement...18 tracks (LGB) 2004. Demo Cd-r. Bon allez, une
fois n'est pas coutume, je vous la tape en french langage cette
chronique. Car avec 18 titres répondant aux patronymes
de Introduction, Accélération, A poil, Mon cul ouais,
Où sont-elles ?, Poum x 2 Hein x 2 ou 45 siècles,
vous l'aurez compris, LGB adresse d'abord sa musique à
un public hexagonal ou plus largement francophone. Et musicalement
me direz vous ? Eh bien, de la même façon que sur
leur premier opus également chroniqué sur ce site,
nos amis reviennent en force avec un grind métal déluré,
joyeux, festif, loufoque tout en évitant de faire dans
la dentelle (c'est le moins que l'on puisse dire !). Et ça
va vite, très vite même ! 18 titres pour 22 minutes
environ, point le temps de trouver le temps long. Bourré
de samples divers qui vont invitent à une fête de
campagne ou qui vous montrent comment Jesus se fritte à
Satan et vice versa. Un petit klaxon de voiture locale ou des
jambes qu'on n'arrive pas à retrouver, tout y passe. Et
la pochette, vous avez vu la pochette ? Ben, non n'espérez
pas de backing vokals féminins, ce n'est pas trop le genre
de la maison. LGB a véritablement trouvé son concept
sur cette nouvelle maquette et le plus étonnant, c'est
que c'est très très bien interprété.
Le son même est largement à la hauteur sans pour
autant que cette petite troupe de zikos se chope la grosse tête.
Ils définissent leur genre musical comme du grind F.M.
et ne craignent pas de mentionner qu'ils utilisent biactol kinder
pingouin, blédina bio ou head&shoulders. Sans doute
leurs sources d'inspirations...et pour ajouter un petit plus à
cet édifice, ils nous gratinent de quelques tracks live.
Hey oui, ils font des concerts en plus de ça. Vous voilà
avertis.
Contacts: Scatoprod
+ LGB
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Band
: Life’s Decay
Title : Lysselia
Label : Abstraktsens
Productions
Material : cd
Year : 2006
Reviewed by : HssH
Note : DDDDD
Life’s
Decay is a French band composed of Lyktwasst (instruments, samples,
artwork and visual arts) and Alea (feminine voice). “Lysselia”
is their third release after their birth in 2003 and it was recorded
during 2005 until 2006. 12 tracks of romantic, gothic, dark fairyhood
and atmospheric music with the use of keyboards and sweet dark
melodies. Thus, Lyktwasst use violins sounds and martial rythmics
often and Alea put her linear voice on haunting classical melodies.
Their music reminds of Dead Can Dance sometimes, also Mylene Farmer
and Marie from Malicorne, especially with the sweet feminine voice.
It is such as a mix of those artists with a very minimalist and
bewitching touch at the same time. Also they add industrial sounds
to their classical violins on the “Sphere” track which
sounds like an instrumental transition before to offer five last
tracks of dark and sweet romantic melodies again. The production
of this stuff is very good because the mix of the instruments
is fautless. Nevetheless the voice of Alea is too much linear
in my opinion and there is notenough voices to intensify their
minimalist music or maybe it could be better with the addition
of other instruments that could be really played. I should be
completely charmed with the Alea’s voice if she would extend
her possibilities with lyrical parts. Moreover, the man’s
voice on the second track bring a awesome feeling. It is too bad
that he does not sing on the other tracks with Alea. So, this
is what I felt with the listening of this opus : a lot of excellent
parts inside but something to do more to intensify the whole.
And what about the lay-out ? Something such as a mix of a neo-gothic
and industrial painting with influences of politic propaganda
picts created in the Europe’s past. This mix is successful.
I love it ! Now you have to make your opinion : enter their strange
fairyland to discover dark feelings of a man and a woman in a
strange blending.
Contac Band :
www.lifesdecay.com
www.myspace.com/abstraktsens
Label :
www.abstraktsens.com
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Band:
Life’s Decay
Title: Szilentia
Material: cd
Label: Abstraktsens
Productions
Year: 2007
Length: 50:30mn
Reviewed by: HssH
Mark:
4,5/5
“Szilentia”
is the fourth release of Life’s Decay since 2004 and it
is constituted of Lyktwasst (music) with Alea (vocals) since 2005.
This is the second release that I review with Diahableries. With
“Szilentia” the band still uses a martial lay-out
that drawns its inspiration from propaganda of dictatorial Regimes
born in the 20th Century, especially in Europe. But their music
do not really generate a martial Thematic because they enlarge
the whole with neo-romantic, pop, electro and new wave influences.
It is such as a dark fairy tale between a women and a man. Remember
Rimbault and Baudelaire, like a “spleen et ideal”:
So, I’m loving you, you’re loving me, I’m loosing
you, you’re loosing me, feel joy, feel sadness and next
depression you could be lost in your dreams…something like
that, you know ! With “Szilentia”, Life’s Decay’s
music is still dark and romantic with martial rhythmics, classical
violins, piano and accordion. Therefore, it makes the whole efficient
enough because their art makes use of the sound that you maybe
used to listen to in the eighty years. The production of this
opus effectively reminds me of old Dead Can Dance, Mylene Farmer,
Bonnie Tyler or A-Ah productions. So, Life’s Decay programmations
seems to get out from the past; a sound with a indisputable kitsch
touch, to be honest, and this is their strength really. So, back
to the eighty years with “Szilentia” !!! At last Life’s
Decay’s compositions are more various than in the past this
time and make this opus very bewitching.
Kontakt:
Band: www.lifesdecay.com
Label: www.abstraktsens.com
Myspace: www.myspace.com/abstraktsens
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Band
: Luci Tristis
Title : Simplex
mortalis
Material : Cd-r
Label :
Eisiger mond
Year : 2006
Reviewed by : Voïd
from Coroner zine
Note:
Warpaint,
black and white layout, depressive and cold music … all
this caracteristics lead the band to the french black metal scene.
Simplex mortalis sound traditional black metal with raw vocals
which are mixed back towards the music. This demo remind me 90’s
style : the first Graveland’s albums. By and large, the
content is original against the new band in this scene. Good riffs,
good vocals, good mix…un name to remember.
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Band
: Lucky Striker 201
Title : Things are
not so good
Material : cd-r
(free for download with agreement of the band)
Label :
Autoproduction
Reviewed by : HssH
Note
: DDDDD
Lucky
Striker 201 is a French musical project with Sylvicious from Tamtrum.
The Tamtrum drummer comes with Wbr (bass guitars) and Caedes Akirohan
(vocals, guitars, samples) this time. An emotional composition
of glam rock, electronic and industrial music. This opus takes
you away during 50 minutes and it’s quite enough to discover
their art. It is not what I listen to everyday but I have to admit
that everything sounds great there. First, there is nothing to
say about the opus recording because everything done with an high
sound quality there. Then, all musical instruments take their
place with perfection : saturated vocals with tormented parts,
heavy and thrash metal influences with the guitars, acoustic parts,
atmospheric keyboards and a lot of mid-tempo with the drums make
the whole very melodic and gothic sometimes. Don’t expect
to the most violent stuff you never heard there because the band
grant not a privilege to the darkest emotions. They chose more
melodic and atmospheric feelings. Listen to the ninth track for
your dance floor evening and enjoy the pop melodies with all the
tracks. Be sure you will expect some sweet songs melodies with
Lucky Striker 201 even if this record seems to remain in a dark
approach of human condition. Just have a look to some tracks titles
to understand it : “Insane” or “Tokyo Vitriol”.
It is not the more original opus I listened to but it is very
enjoyable to listen to it from time to time because they did it
with a professional touch. Also, this opus is free. The band do
not want to get money with it. They just want revolution. No less,
no more ! Thus, you can download the whole at their “url”
or with “Diahableries” into our downloads section.
Download it and go to see them on stage ! You will be not disappointed.
Contacts
:
www.ls201.com ; ls201@fr.st
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Band :
Various
Artists
Title : Lustour
Angel 2006 Compilation
Material : cd sampler
Label : Anvil Corp
/ Le Black Dog
Year : 2006
Reviewed by : HssH
Note
: DDDDD
Bands
list :
- Horresco
Referens ; www.horrescoreferens.com
- Sweet
Silence ; www.sweetsilence.net
- Maladaptive ;
www.maladaptive.net
- Mylidian ;
www.mylidian.com
- The
Outburst ; www.theoutburst.com
- Herrschaft ;
www.h-noise.com
- Wormfood ;
www.wormfood.fr
I
always enjoy labels or people who give an opportunity to discover
bands. This sampler comes with seven bands from France. It begins
with HORRESCO REFERENS : two tracks
of modern thrash metal with good heavy inventive parts. Without
being very original, this band plays with an high musical level.
Everything blends perfectly with technical compositions. Then
SWEET SILENCE follow. Don’t expect
some sweet musical parts but thrash core metal with hard core
vocals. Keyboards add an electronic touch with the first track.
It reminds of old Neurosis or Kickback with the vocals sometimes
but it is quickly different because they mix the whole with atmospheric
female vocals parts to intensify strong rythmic guitars. Melodic
backing vocals gives an impressive progressive and heavy touch.
Very technical and professional. Then, we listen to MALADAPTIVE,
an heavy glam metal with short death metal parts on the first
track. Very melodic even if you use it for dance floors. It is
not what I listen to everyday but I allow that they know how to
be efficient. Their second track comes with thrash death metal
influences and they add strong technical guitars parts. More powerful
than the first track but still glam rock and now neo metal influences.
Quite sound recording to make an opinion ! So, interesting tracks
! MYLIDIAN comes with different musical
influences. Did they listen to bands such as Onslaught and Cradle
of Filth ? I think so ! Typical heavy metal with great lyrical
backing vocals mixed with musical theatrical influences. It sounds
like a dark fairy-tale with perfection. It could take you away.
It took me away. Then THE OUTBURST kill
everything with a melodic neo thrash metal mixed with oriental
influences in the vocals. It sounds like System of A Down sometimes
and their second track add pop musical parts. All of these bands
play metal and it is a surprise to listen to HERRSCHAFT
after it because Herrschaft is quickly different with their industrial
and electronic music. They do not forget guitars parts but it
is far away from metal bands. Two tracks about “humanicide”
taken from their forthcoming stuff. Interesting inventive parts
that reminds of Rammstein sometimes with their martial rythmics.
Also the vocals are very brutal because their singer screams all
the time and add some effects to intensify his voice. Thus, they
play an oppressive dark music and it comes with a high sound recording
for a first record. You will not be disappointed at all with their
material. This sampler ends with WORMFOOD.
Well, imagine thrash metal mixed with an horror movie’s
soundtrack. That’s what it is on this sampler. Some good
parts, especially with their backing vocals that sound like a
strange ceremonie into an abbey or maybe a ceremonie into a strange
abbey. I recommend you this sampler cd because it has a high quality
level and it is for free. So, what are you waiting for ?
Contact
: www.anvilcorp.net
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