L'Ordure à l'état Pur (French for The Pure Essence of Garbage) is the fourth full-length studio album by the French black metal band Peste Noire.[3] It was released in 2013 on the Compact Disc format under bandleader Ludovic "Famine" Faure's own record label: La Mesnie Herlequin, which he established that same year.[4]
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| Released | 2011 | |||
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| Length | 60:23 | |||
| Label | La Mesnie Herlequin[2] | |||
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Style
editAlthough fundamentally a black metal record at its core, L'Ordure à l'état Pur exhibits prominent French folk music, avant-garde, and industrial elements mixed in with traces of ska punk, post-metal, and electronia.[5][6][7] Moreover, the album features the playing of instruments that are seldom used in black metal music including the trombone, accordion, timpani, cello and épinette des Vosges.
In addition to the name of the album itself, its song titles and lyrics are entirely written/sung in the French language – maintaining a consistency with the band's other releases.[8]
Track listing
edit| No. | Title | English translation | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Casse, Pêches, Fractures et Traditions" | Breaking, Punches, Bone fractures and Traditions | 10:48 |
| 2. | "Cochon Carotte et les sœurs Crotte" | Pig, Carrots and the Turd Sisters | 8:28 |
| 3. | "J’avais rêvé du Nord" | I Had Dreamt of the North | 20:26 |
| 4. | "Sale Famine von Valfoutre" | Sale Famine von Valfuck | 11:32 |
| 5. | "La condi hu" | The Human Condition | 9:09 |
| Total length: | 60:23 | ||
Personnel
editPeste Noire
edit- DJ Famine (Ludovic Faure) – vocals, acoustic guitar, lead guitar, rhythm guitar, Epinette des Vosges, production
- Vicomte Chtedire de Kroumpadis – drums, percussion
- Audrey Sylvain – clean vocals
Session musicians
edit- Indria – bass guitar, fretless bass
- L'Atrabilaire Maldo – Occitan preaches (track 1)
- Seigneur Arawn – vocals (track 3)
- Lulu l'ermite – backing vocals (track 3, 4)
- Miss Peste Nègre – accordion
- Rachid de France – trombone
Additional personnel
edit- Engwar – engineering, mixing, cello, timpani and backing vocals (track 5)
- Mika Jussila – mastering
- Valnègre (Jean-Emmanuel Simoulin) – artwork and photography
References
edit- ^ Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, Volume 11: Genres: Europe – David Horn – Google Books. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. 5 October 2017. ISBN 9781501326103. Retrieved 11 December 2022.
- ^ "La Mesnie Herlequin – Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives". www.metal-archives.com.
- ^ "L'Ordure à l'état Pur (English translation)". 22 December 2013.
- ^ "La Mesnie Herlequin – Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives". www.metal-archives.com.
- ^ "Peste Noire – L'Ordure A l'Etat Pur". www.hornsup.fr.
- ^ "Peste Noire – L'Ordure À L'État Pur" – via www.discogs.com.
- ^ "L'Ordure à l'état Pur — Peste Noire". Last.fm.
- ^ "My long and pretentious review of Peste Noire's 'L'Ordure à l'état Pur'". 26 July 2011.