Elend

Ce groupe Franco-autrichien produit une musique extrémement recherchée et élaborée, entre le classique, la musique contemporaine, et des voix qui empruntent tant au métal qu'au symphonique et à la musique religieuse...

C'est sans doute aussi la musique la plus sombre et morbide que je connaisse: une beauté stupéfiante comme un diamant noir, trés noir...En tout cas pour leur triologie de l'Office des ténèbres: inspiré par le Paradis Perdu de Milton, ils y chantent la révolte et la chute de Lucifer:

- Leçons de Ténèbres (1994)
- Les Ténèbres du Dehors (1996)
- The Umbersun (1998):

Extraits:


Leçon De Ténèbres (Lucifer) (In Leçons de Ténèbres)



Me involvunt tenebrae cum lux paulatim evanescat.
Obrigescunt formae et nox regnum suum celebrat.
Anima mae signum cerae occultorum sinu totae claritatis secre-
torum scindit...
Incipit lectio tenebrarum.

[English Translation:]

Lecture Of Darkness

Obscurity enfolds me, as the light gradually fades away.
The shapes petrify and the night celebrates her reign.
My soul breaks the seal of the secrets hidden in the heart of all clarity.
Begins the lecture of darkness.







Nocturne (in Les ténèbres du Dehors):

"Lost in a dream...
Drowning in the eyes
Of a statue who dreamt a little dream of me...
Incipiunt hic tenebrarum lectiones secundae,
Cum Lucifer receptaculum noctis evasus,
Demergitur in undis somniorum suorum...
...Quem statua observat.

But here there is no light."

[English Translation:]

Here begin the second lectures of darkness,
As Lucifer becomes the chalice of the night.
He drowns in the sea of his dreams...
... Him, whom the statue beholds.






The Luciferian Revolution (In Leçons de Ténèbres)


Flores solis, ardentes in aeternum,
Ne secuti sitis fatum floris venenati...
Colores delectant, inebriant odores,
At siccatur sinus perpetuo lacrimando...
Nam angeli cursus firmamentum
lacrimarum...

I depart from this world of grey
to reach the red eternal.

Red, the scarlet letters burn within my mind:
We won't follow the Sun in its course.
We will follow the Moon in its curse.
Lacerate the heavens, devour the Sun,
rape the light.

We are waiting for an eternal night
Where to keep Heaven's tears away from the
eyes of the sun,
Cast away from your universe of warmth,
of love and shelter,
The path of the angel is a firmament of tears.

Luxuries of pain, lurid agony,
The universe echoes the scream
Of a soul overflowed with sorrow.
Exhausted, let me drown in your eyes!

Shatter the stars, drag out the ligth
And drown it in the deepest seas of my mind;
I need no more brightness:
I am the night and the shadows.
I am the field when pain is the seed.

Flores noctis sumus atque alas pandimus
In profundis tenebrarum
Solus halitus emanans penna speculae,
Quam expellit folium mortis.

Shatter the stars, drag out the ligth
And drown it in the deepest seas of my mind;
I need no more brightness:
I am the night and the shadows.
I am the field when darkness is the seed.

The golden pandaemonic silence soothes me
As the streams of my satufied thoughts draw
the pattern of my kingdom,
Imperium infernale.

But we will regain the paradise
For in the east of Eden,
I will shed the blood of Christ...

[English Translation:]

Flowers of the sun, you who glow for eternity,
Do not follow the fate of the poisonous flower...
Her colours captivate, her scent inebriates,
But her heart withers from perpetual weeping...
For the path of the Angel is a firmament of tears...

We are the blossoms of the night and we spread our wings
In the depths of darkness.
The only emanating breath is a plume of hope
Which is replaced by a petal of death.

The infernal reign






...à écouter quand vous avez le moral: à coté d'eux Dark Santuary ressemble à du Carlos!

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Je connaissais ce groupe que j'apprécie, au niveau musical, mais je constate que les vidéos sont superbes.
J'ai un faible pour le premier morceau , l'émotion dans la voix du chanteur se communique littéralement.
Merci pour les liens, c'est avec plaisir que je retrouve ce groupe, je vais d'ailleurs de ce pas essayer de trouver leurs CD.