Leçons De Ténèbres
©Holy Records. France, 1994.
‟Sixteen years ago when Death & Black metal were at their peak the whole scene spinned around "brutality" & "darkness" in terms of rhythm and atmosphere, fast tempos & few harmonics, minimalism over melody and any band out of these standards was classified as a traitor (to an unexistent cause of course).
Elend was one of the first bands that tried to intruduce to the core of Metal trends the neoclassical echoes from bands like Dead Can Dance, melody over the rutilant course from metal. "Leçons De Ténèbres" its a daring experimentation, introducing a vanguardistic tendency in the form of an apparent impossibility. The major triumph of this album its his own demise as well, the orchestral maneouvers gets darkened by the fuzzy and often sloppy metal introits and when the beautiful harmonies brings the magic overtones of grace and atmospherics the oligophrenic growls and screams intended as vocals obliterate the whole dimension from the sound created. The contrast its intolerable and the result unbereable.
Milton´s vision on "Paradise Lost" partially taken as inspiration for this album is well conceptualized in terms of the whole creative effort employed but the aesthetics used (mainly on vocals and certain "metallic" arrangements) are hostile to the beauty of the narrative and completely childish in form. The intention to bring growls and screams as means of despair and darkness are very naive, somehow lose the essence from what the "Fall from grace" means, an spiritual loss and therefore a pain that is mainly centred on the soul. Screaming or growling upon a wall of neoclassical paintbrushes trying to instill atmospherics doesnt really bring more darkness into the picture, just the ridicule.
Nevertheless the work must be judged by its daring and proactive try, it opened the ways for the band experimenting way further and creating an universe for their own as well as many others to hear the magic sound that could be derived from a mix that could reconciliate the harsh form from metal with the deep strength from the classic.‟
Elend was one of the first bands that tried to intruduce to the core of Metal trends the neoclassical echoes from bands like Dead Can Dance, melody over the rutilant course from metal. "Leçons De Ténèbres" its a daring experimentation, introducing a vanguardistic tendency in the form of an apparent impossibility. The major triumph of this album its his own demise as well, the orchestral maneouvers gets darkened by the fuzzy and often sloppy metal introits and when the beautiful harmonies brings the magic overtones of grace and atmospherics the oligophrenic growls and screams intended as vocals obliterate the whole dimension from the sound created. The contrast its intolerable and the result unbereable.
Milton´s vision on "Paradise Lost" partially taken as inspiration for this album is well conceptualized in terms of the whole creative effort employed but the aesthetics used (mainly on vocals and certain "metallic" arrangements) are hostile to the beauty of the narrative and completely childish in form. The intention to bring growls and screams as means of despair and darkness are very naive, somehow lose the essence from what the "Fall from grace" means, an spiritual loss and therefore a pain that is mainly centred on the soul. Screaming or growling upon a wall of neoclassical paintbrushes trying to instill atmospherics doesnt really bring more darkness into the picture, just the ridicule.
Nevertheless the work must be judged by its daring and proactive try, it opened the ways for the band experimenting way further and creating an universe for their own as well as many others to hear the magic sound that could be derived from a mix that could reconciliate the harsh form from metal with the deep strength from the classic.‟
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