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Les Ténèbres Du Dehors
''Les Ténèbres du Dehors'' is an album by neoclassical band Elend. It is the second in the ''Officium Tenebrarum'' trilogy. The album was remastered and re-released in April 2001 with a bonus track called ''Birds of Dawn'' (originally on a Holy Records Holy Records is a French metal label run by Misanthrope frontman Phillipe De L'Argilière. Aside from Misanthrope itself, the label has not signed many French bands, but also corresponds with several Greek bands. Current and former artists Source ... sampler) with a red-tinted cover, instead of the original blue. Track listing #"Nocturne" — (4:51) #"Ethereal Journeys" — (14:29) #"The Luciferian Revolution" — (10:57) #"Eden (The Angel in the Garden)" — (4:17) #"The Silence of Light" — (8:05) #"Antienne" — (6:45) #"Dancing under the Closed Eyes of Paradise" — (9:36) #"Birds of Dawn" — (12:10)* #"Les Ténèbres du Dehors" — (4:23) * Bonus track on 2001 re-release Musicians All instruments and vocals perform ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elend (band)
Elend is a dark ambient/ neoclassical band formed in France in 1993 by composers and multi-instrumentalists Iskandar Hasnawi of France and Renaud Tschirner of Austria. The band's name is German for "misery." Their music can be described as a combination of contemporary classical music and gothic. Stylistic overview Early Elend albums utilized samplers and synthesizers to create a dense and horrifying orchestral sound. In their last three albums for the ''Winds Cycle'', Elend's sound was broadened; they did now rely almost entirely on acoustic instruments and chamber orchestras instead of synthesizers, giving them a more full and natural sound. They did also include electronic and industrial elements in some of their pieces. Elend's sound tended toward the aggressive, containing harsh dissonance, screaming and growled vocals in a manner associated with certain types of contemporary classical music. Vocalists, spoken-word passages and occasional rock-like song structures lend the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neoclassical (Dark Wave)
Neoclassical or neo-classical may refer to: * Neoclassicism or New Classicism, any of a number of movements in the fine arts, literature, theatre, music, language, and architecture beginning in the 17th century ** Neoclassical architecture, an architectural style of the 18th and 19th centuries ** Neoclassical sculpture, a sculptural style of the 18th and 19th centuries ** New Classical architecture, an overarching movement of contemporary classical architecture in the 21st century ** in linguistics, a word that is a recent construction from New Latin based on older, classical elements * Neoclassical ballet, a ballet style which uses traditional ballet vocabulary, but is generally more expansive than the classical structure allowed * The "Neo-classical period" of painter Pablo Picasso immediately following World War I * Neoclassical economics, a general approach in economics focusing on the determination of prices, outputs, and income distributions in markets through supply and de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holy Records
Holy Records is a French metal label run by Misanthrope frontman Phillipe De L'Argilière. Aside from Misanthrope itself, the label has not signed many French bands, but also corresponds with several Greek bands. Current and former artists Source: * Am'ganesha'n * Argile *Balrog * Chaostar * Division Alpha *Elend *Exhumation * Frozen Shadows * Garwall * Gloomy Grim * Godsend * Hantaoma * Hectic Patterns * Inactive Messiah * Kadenzza * Legenda *Misanthrope * Mistaken Element *Natron * Nightfall * Ominous *On Thorns I Lay * Orakle *Orphaned Land * Rajna *Septic Flesh * Serenity * Soulgrind *Stille Volk * S.U.P * Trepalium *Tristitia Tristitia is a Swedish doom metal band formed in Halmstad in 1992. History The band was founded by Chilean / Swedish guitarist Luis Beethoven Galvez. His devotion for doom metal and sorrowful melodies brought him to form the band with deat ... * Ufych Sormeer * Yearning References Heavy metal record labels French record labels Music pub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leçons De Ténèbres (album)
''Leçons de Ténèbres'' is the debut album of the neoclassical band Elend, released in 1994. It was the first in the ''Officium Tenebrarum'' trilogy. The lyrics to four songs (''Chanting'', ''Into Bottomless Perdition'', ''Lucifer'' and ''The Emperor'') are texts adapted from John Milton's ''Paradise Lost ''Paradise Lost'' is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton (1608–1674). The first version, published in 1667, consists of ten books with over ten thousand lines of verse (poetry), verse. A second edition fo ...''. Track listing #"Leçon de Ténèbres" — (3:31) #"Chanting" — (6:22) #"Into Bottomless Perdition" — (7:07) #"Deploration" — (5:41) #"Infernal Beauty" — (5:13) #"Lucifer" — (10:05) #"Eclipse" — (8:10) #"The Reign of Chaos and Old Night" — (5:00) #"The Emperor" — (5:29) Musicians All instruments and vocals performed by Iskandar Hasnawi, Eve Gabrielle Siskind and Renaud Tschirner. References 1994 debu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weeping Nights
''Weeping Nights'' is the third album by neoclassical band Elend. Although released before ''The Umbersun'', it is not a part of the ''Officium Tenebrarum'' trilogy. The album contains three original songs (the first track being of their own and the following two being adaptations of pieces by Henry Purcell Henry Purcell (, rare: September 1659 – 21 November 1695) was an English composer. Purcell's style of Baroque music was uniquely English, although it incorporated Italian and French elements. Generally considered among the greatest E ...), and six remixes of songs from their previous album, '' Les Ténèbres du Dehors''. The remixed tracks are virtually exactly the same as on ''Les Ténèbres du Dehors'', only all male vocals have been removed. The only two tracks from the previous album which do not appear here are "The Silence of Light" (track 5) and "Antienne" (track 6), presumably because they had no male vocals to begin with and because of limited space ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tartarean Desire
In Greek mythology, Tartarus (; grc, , }) is the deep abyss that is used as a dungeon of torment and suffering for the wicked and as the prison for the Titans. Tartarus is the place where, according to Plato's ''Gorgias'' (), souls are judged after death and where the wicked received divine punishment. Tartarus is also considered to be a primordial force or deity alongside entities such as the Earth, Night, and Time. Greek Mythology In Greek mythology, Tartarus is both a deity and a place in the underworld. In ancient Orphic sources and in the mystery schools, Tartarus is also the unbounded first-existing entity from which the light and the cosmos are born. As a deity In the Greek poet Hesiod's '' Theogony'' ( late 8th century BC), Tartarus was the third of the primordial deities, following after Chaos and Gaia (Earth), and preceding Eros, and was the father, by Gaia, of the monster Typhon. According to Hyginus, Tartarus was the offspring of Aethe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1996 Albums
File:1996 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: A bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, set off by a radical anti-abortionist; The center fuel tank explodes on TWA Flight 800, causing the plane to crash and killing everyone on board; Eight people die in a blizzard on Mount Everest; Dolly the Sheep becomes the first mammal to have been cloned from an adult somatic cell; The Port Arthur Massacre occurs on Tasmania, and leads to major changes in Australia's gun laws; Macarena, sung by Los del Río and remixed by The Bayside Boys, becomes a major dance craze and cultural phenomenon; Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 crash-ditches off of the Comoros Islands after the plane was hijacked; the 1996 Summer Olympics are held in Atlanta, marking the Centennial (100th Anniversary) of the modern Olympic Games., 300x300px, thumb rect 0 0 200 200 Centennial Olympic Park bombing rect 200 0 400 200 TWA FLight 800 rect 400 0 600 200 1996 Mount Everest disaster rect 0 200 30 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
