Track Listing
1. Exterminators 2. Face in a fever (Hatlevik edit) 3. Shotgun blast 4. Fingerprint 5. Facets 2.0 6. Last minute lies 7. Barb wire smile 8. Face in a fever (Nordgaren edit) Year: 2000 Label: Supernal Music - Official Site |
Fleurety - 'Department of apocalyptic affairs' - By C. Diamantis
This is the last album of the avant-garde rockers (metallers) from Norway. After taking a look at the booklet it becomes apparent that in this album participate some of the most important members of the Norwegian music scene. We have Hellhammer and Maniac from Mayem, G. Playa (aka Garm) and Tore Ylwizaker from Ulver, Sverd from Arcturus, Carl August Tidemann from Tritonus/Arcturus, Knut Magne Valle also from Arcturus and finally Carl-Michael Eide from Ved Buens Ende/Dodheismgard/Aura Noir. Apart from them there are also a few others musicians who participate in the album, among whom we can distinguish Karianne Horn who sings in some songs and Mari Soldberg who plays the saxophone. So if we add to the above the two people who are the core of Fleurety, Alexander Nordgaren and S. E. Hatlevik, we can imagine that this album is an avant-garde party. Unlike a lot of other examples where the gathering of so many important musicians leads to results which don�t satisfy, this time everything is almost perfect. These guys know how to co-operate with one another perfectly due to the fact that they �ve been together in a lot of albums of various Norwegian bands. It�s very difficult to describe the kind of music that this band plays because they mix some styles totally different styles. With their base in rock, there are also some jazz parts, quite a few electronic elements and some metal elements. The use of saxophone comes and goes suddenly in parts of songs and its melodies can only described as strange. Every person that sings in the album gives his or her personal feeling to the songs. My personal favorites are the performances by Karianne Horn in various songs and by Garm in Last Minute Lies. I�ve done my best to describe this album but anyone who has listened to it or know the musicians who participate will know that this is not an easy task. If you like the Norwegian avant � garde scene this is the album for you. For everyone else, try to listen before you buy this album and if you�re not VERY open-minded in your approach of music then you�ll have to step very carefully. It�s definitely not an easy album but one which will grow on you with every listening and that in the end will become on of those albums you can�t do without. Metal Obsessive Grade: 95% |