Fleurety (band)
| Fleurety | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| origin | Enebakk , Norway |
| Genre (s) | Metal |
| founding | 1991 |
| Founding members | |
| Alexander Nordgaren | |
| Svein Egil Hatlevik | |
Fleurety is a Norwegian experimental Metal - band from Ytre Enebakk , which was founded in 1991st It is named after the demon Fleurety .
history
The duo Alexander Nordgaren and Svein Egil Hatlevik, initially with the pseudonyms Varg and Nebiros, recorded their first demo in 1993 , which in 1994 formed the basis for the EP A Darker Shade of Evil . Fleurety at that time still had similar influences as the leading bands in Norwegian black metal , but were hated in the scene. On the debut album Min Tid Skal Komme , the band also integrated acoustic, psychedelic and jazzy elements into their style. With Marian Aas Hansen, a singer was also involved.
After a break of several years, during which Nordgaren did a solo project and briefly played live guitar with Mayhem and Hatlevik joined Dødheimsgard and played with Aphrodisiac, the EP Last-Minute Lies was released in 1999 , which was the stylistic development of the soon-to-be-released Department of Apocalyptic Affairs already indicated. Several guest musicians from bands such as Mayhem, Arcturus , Ulver , Ved Buens Ende and others were at the latter . a. involved (e.g. Sven Erik "Maniac" Kristiansen , Kristoffer Rygg , Carl August Tidemann , Knut Magne Valle , Steinar Sverd Johnsen , Jan Axel "Hellhammer" Blomberg and Carl-Michael Eide ). A press release from the record company Supernal Music by Alex Kurtagić alluded to the involvement of members of the former Norwegian black metal scene , which "warned" about Fleurety and described the band as traitors to true black metal.
While the band was quiet again for a few years, Hatlevik made under the pseudonym Zweizz v. a. electronic music. In 2003 Candlelight Records reissued the debut album with the first EP and the contribution to the Blackend compilation as a bonus, from 2009 further EPs followed with new recordings and new pieces, which were collected on a compilation in 2017. 17 years after the Department of Apocalyptic Affairs , the third album in the band's history was finally released in 2017 with The White Death .
style
In the beginning, Fleurety's music was by bands such as Mayhem , Burzum , Bathory , King Diamond / Mercyful Fate , My Dying Bride , Celtic Frost , Darkthrone and Arcturus, as well as classical composers such as Igor Fjodorowitsch Stravinsky , Arne Hordheim , Edvard Grieg , Charles-Marie Widor , Luigi Nono , Gustav Holst , Johann Sebastian Bach and Richard Wagner , some of the musicians also influenced by darker rock bands such as Fields of the Nephilim , Thule , The Sisters of Mercy and Änglagård . Accordingly, the music of the Norwegian black metal bands was similar . The extremely high-pitched screams were characteristic of Fleurety. However, Svein Egil Hatlevik stated that the band did not play black metal because "a black metal band is a band whose members worship and cultivate Satan ," whereas his band does not have a satanic concept and was the black metal scene Hostile to Fleurety. Hatlevik's texts should express his inner emotions, into which he integrated dreams, fantasies, visions etc., whereby he could only express himself for his own textual inspiration. The band brought a “humorous, twisted colored” bias to the black metal scene, but, according to Hatlevik, never had “an explicit agenda of 'bringing humor to black metal'. I mean, we don't suffer from a messianic complex. ”The debut album looked“ like Black Metal through a post-punk filter ”.
In the post-1994 period, "all the makeup, social intrigue, and talk of hatred and darkness" began to sound, and still does, sound "hollow", according to Hatlevik. Therefore, in 1996 the band moved away from extreme metal and began to write other music; In the late 1990s there was only one good black metal album with Dødheimsgards 666 International . On later releases, the band processed elements from trip-hop , jazz , electronica , contemporary art music , progressive rock and industrial metal . Hatlevik later claimed that the band would not have survived if they had continued to insist on being "experimental," "avant-garde," or "sophisticated," and playing what they do best: simple, primitive black metal. With the third album, however, the band resumed the stylistically eclectic approach of the debut album.
Discography
- 1993: Black Snow (demo, self-published)
- 1994: A Darker Shade of Evil (EP, Aesthetic Death Records )
- 1995: Absence on Blackend - The Black Metal Compilation Volume 1
- 1995: Min Tid Skal Come (Album, Aesthetic Death Records, Misanthropy Records )
- 1999: Last Minute Lies (EP, Supernal Music )
- 2000: Department of Apocalyptic Affairs (Album, Supernal Music)
- 2009: Ingentes Atque Decorii Vexilliferi Apokalypsis (EP, Aesthetic Death Records)
- 2010: Evoco Bestias (EP, Aesthetic Death Records)
- 2013: Et Spiritus Meus Semper Sub Sanguinantibus Stellis Habitabit (EP, Aesthetic Death Records)
- 2017: Fragmenta Cuinsvis Aetatis Contemporaneae (EP, Aesthetic Death Records)
- 2017: Inquietum (compilation, Aesthetic Death Records)
- 2017: The White Death (Album, Peaceville Records )
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e James Hinchliffe: ROWDY AND UNFAMILIAR: A FLEURETY BIOGRAPHY ( Memento from February 19, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), March 17, 2003, accessed on January 13, 2013.
- ↑ a b MysticuM . In: Jon Kristiansen : Metalion: The Slayer Mag Diaries . Brooklyn: Bazillion Points 2011, p. 306.
- ↑ a b Martin Wickler: A soul full of liquid glass . In: Ablaze , No. 5, May / June 1995, p. 24.
- ^ The Dark Past ( Memento June 4, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on January 13, 2013.
- ↑ Pedro Azevedo: Fleurety - Department of Apocalyptic Affairs , January 10, 2001, accessed January 13, 2013.
- ↑ a b c d Fleurety . Black Snow . In: Tales of the Macabre , No. 1, p. 12.
- ↑ a b c Oliver Side: Fleurety - Far Away From Any Messianic Complex , November 18, 2007, accessed January 13, 2013.
- ↑ James Slone: Fleurety - Min Tid Skal Come , July 15, 2007, accessed January 13, 2013.
- ^ A b c d e William York: Fleurety , accessed January 13, 2013.
- ↑ a b c d James Slone: Fleurety - Department Of Apocalyptic Affairs , July 22, 2007, accessed January 13, 2013.