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"Les Ténèbres du dehors” is the last one of Elend´s trilogy “officium tenebrarum”.
It presents surely some of the sadest music I have ever heard. And believe me, this music is sad, very sad, as all beauty is sad.
Not a single guitar, no drums have been used, only orchestral music with incredible beautiful melodies, two great female vocalists and male black metallish screams full of pain and scorn. The mixture of classics, female operatic-voice and blackmetal screams (and by the way, these screams breath more hate, pain and madness then most of the real blackmetal bands!) works astonishing good. The two soprano´s Nathali Barbary and Eve Gabrielle Siskind fit perfect to the feelings that this music shall express.
It is a concept album that deals with the fall of Lucifer and his pain, his grief, when he thinks about the way he has been treated by a god which claims to be a god of mercy but had no mercy for him. The reflections of his tragic faith will let him drifting more and more into madness.
You will love it or hate it. And if you hate it, you do so because the music brings emotions to birth that you don´t want to face: So even in that case you see the music works.
Not only the music is wonderful, the layout and the whole cd booklet are also great art:
The wonderful lyrics (written in english, latin and french) are escorted by black and white paintings from the great artist Gustav Doré.
Elend have now two websites, I suggest to take a look at the older one, because this one has three mp3´s of Les Ténèbres du dehors (but the sound quality differs a lot).
Tragedy, thy name Elend hath to be!
| Tracklist |
| 1. Nocturne |
| 2. Ethereal Journey |
| 3. The Luciferian Revolution |
| 4. Eden (The Angel In The Garden) |
| 5. The Silence Of Light |
| 6. Antienne |
| 7. Dancing Under The Closed Eyes Of Paradise |
| 8. Les Ténèbres Du Dehors |
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