GunShyAssassin.com has posted a stream of BORGNE's "Suffer As I Paid My Grave." The song, taken from the Swiss atmospheric/industrial black metallers newest release Royaume des Ombres, is available for online consumption at this location.
Royaume des Ombres, which was released worldwide on June 12th via Sepulchral Productions, sees BORGNE return with a vengeance with what is undoubtedly its most accomplished work to date. Moving forward in the darker and more complex direction hinted on Entraves de l'Âme, while still retaining the mechanical hatred and blistering speed fans of the band have come to expect, BORGNE will pummel listeners with nearly 60 minutes of brutal, creepy and suffocating songs, while adding an epic twist. The album can be purchased at www.sepulchralproductions.com.
Swiss misanthropic black metallers "Borgne" have released the newest full length album named "Royaume des Ombres" on June 12th through Sepulchral Productions. Im not going to write / think of the physical form of music of the album "but, its soul" and this work is great.
Ill clarify here that I am not tied to any particular style of music, I like music, period (I'm no purist and I am proud of it anyway). In fact I support the idea that there are only two kinds of music, good and bad! In general, I think that music, without distinction of gender, is so important to the life of a person, as the basic foundation in human growth. The knowledge to appreciate a good song is the same has appreciating a good painting, or a good book or movie, this is intimately related to the domain of emotions that one particular individual has.
"Royaume des Ombres" is a magnificent work that can mess with my emotions "temperament, personality and motivation," with my human nature, as a set of characteristics described by philosophy, including ways of acting and thinking, that all human beings have in common, even misanthropes, who are by nature averse to human beings and human nature in general "a misanthrope is someone who is suspicious of humanity in a generalized way." The word comes from the Greek Misanthropia, the union of the terms μίσος (hate) and άνθρωπος (man, human being).
In fact I was fortunate to be among the first with the privilege to hear this fantastic art (music) which is basically to combine sounds and silence and there is no doubt that music history is intertwined with the history of the development of intelligence and human culture and as noted in "Royaume des Ombres".
Well, if you think of cinema as a cultural artifact created by certain cultures that are reflected in it and that, in turn, affect them, here we could say that this movie has no country ... "The world is its country" and do not need subtitles. I like by principle to relate major musical works and cinematographic works "Royaume des Ombres" fit neatly into the Oscars winner Crash by Paul Haggis.
"In LA nobody touches you. We're always behind metal and glass. I think we feel such a lack of touch, we hit each other just to feel something." (Crash Phrase). From here, Crash is a film that shows a portrait of a society marked by prejudice. This, however, is not reflected in the naive formula black-white, but is shown as a colorful and complex reality: black, white, muslim, latino, poor, rich.
I never gave and will never give notes to musical works but this time I feel like saying "Royaume des Ombres" shoots the scale ... 11 to 10. Let us wait anxiously upcoming works of art.
"Royaume des Ombres" Tracklist
Fall of the Lost Souls Suffer as I Paid my Grave In the Realm of the Living I'm Dead Only the Dead Can be Heard All These Screams Through Me The Last Thing You Will See
Quebec's Sepulchral Productions has set June 12th as the date on which Royaume des Ombres from Swiss atmospheric/industrial black metallers will be made available for mass consumption. BORGNE strikes back with a vengeance with what is undoubtedly its most accomplished work to date. Moving forward in the darker and more complex direction hinted on Entraves de l'Âme, while still retaining the mechanical hatred and blistering speed fans of the band have come to expect, BORGNE will pummel listeners with nearly 60 minutes of brutal, creepy and suffocating songs, while adding an epic twist.
Royaume des Ombres Cover Art & Track Listing:
Fall of the Lost Souls Suffer as I Paid my Grave In the Realm of the Living I'm Dead Only the Dead Can be Heard All These Screams Through Me The Last Thing You Will See
Hailing from Switzerland, and thus being the first
group from outside of Québec signed on Sepulchral Productions, BORGNE
plays cold, mechanical and inhumane Industrial/Black Metal, as martial
as it is hypnotic. Do not expect any lame techno beats here, only
blistering Black Metal done in a more "synthetic" way, with a dense,
suffocating sound and some dark ambient passages. After thirteen years
of activity, five albums and now formed as a live band, Borgne will be
headed by: Bornyhake (Enoid, ex-Krigar), XaX (ex-Disaster, ex-Unborned,
ex-Sword), Lady Kaos (ex-Ipsum), Ardelean (ex-Krigar, Fosse, Euclidean)
and Quaoar (Astral Silence).
Borgne is pleased to announce that its 2007 releaseIII is now available on 12" vinyl format through Profane Wax. The album consists of 40 minutes of the kind of mechanical, ambient black metal for which the long-running Swiss act is known. The LP is limited to 200 copies on white vinyl! You can purchase the LP, along with other Borgne products, at these locations:
Spawned in 1998 and hailing from Switzerland, Borgne plays cold, mechanical and inhumane Industrial/Black Metal, as martial as it is hypnotic. Do not expect any lame techno beats here, only blistering Black Metal done in a more "synthetic" way, with a dense, suffocating sound and dark ambient passages.
Out today, November 9th, on Sepulchral Productions are a trio of black metal grand slams in the form of Borgne's Entraves de l'Âme,Forteresse'sPar Hauts Bois et Vastes Plaines,and Neige et Noirceur's La Seigneurie des Loups.
Forteresse - Par Hauts Bois et Vastes Plaines
After the mechanical fury of IV, Borgne is back with a more complex and torturous opus on which the martial and brutal parts are interlaced with darker, more eerie moments. On this album, Borgne mastermind Bornyhake has allied himself with Xasthur's Malefic and Vinterriket's CZ who supply very haunting keyboard pieces to the music. But don't let the somewhat more organic side of this new album fool you,Entraves de l'Âme will plunge you directly into a universe of hatred and horror...
"Borgne brainchild Bornyhake knows how to handle his guitar, riffing out some great, creepy fuzz atop the blurred drums and hateful vokills. Bravo, Borgne: you've succeeded in winning over yet another convert to your cause!" - Zero Tolerance
"Black symphonic, grandiose and epic...dark, sinister, tragic."
- Flight of Pegasus
"From the lush acoustic to pure nightmarish blackened pain. Burzum, Mayhem and Older Darkthrone fans with love this as it holds just into those Ideals as well. Bombastic..." - Absolute Zero
"I quite dig it. Reminds me of 1995 - and I mean that in the best possible way!" - Nathan T. Birk
For its third album, Forteresse takes a more hypnotic and introspective approach and offers a majestic and melancholic opus that is sure to appeal to the fans of the group. Athros' voice, Moribond's sweeping guitar melodies and that ever cold and raw sound, all trademarks of the band, are as ever-present as always, but the outfit has also developed it's atmospheric side by adding keyboards passages that add an ambient touch Forteresse's own Métal Noir Québécois. As the album in itself is but one long journey and has to be listened in its entirety to be best discovered, the group has elected to name all tracks by the same name as the album...
"The tunes here are immense. The sound is dense: melodies are keyboard-led, the guitars thicken the texture and add to the monumental weight of the music, and the vocals are a parched roar - beautiful." - Zero Tolerance
"This is full of hope and sorrow, loss and grief and epic in the undertaking that it is trying to present. Simply just blown away by this release." - Absolute Zero
Croix de Feu, Croix de Fer Ancien Folklore Québécois 1837 La Seigneurie des Loups Les Plaines de Krolok
While its split with Monarque is still fresh, Neige et Noirceur strikes again, for the first time under the Sepulchral Productions banner. Without a doubt the best release of the group to this day, La Seigneurie Des Loups features, as usual, a raw Black/Ambient breed that might bring Paysage d'Hiver to mind to certain while forging it's own identity as well as having a very Quebecois, side. Cold, dark and hypnotic, Neige et Noirceur summons images of these long, wintery Quebec nights!
"Neige et Noirceur's La Seigneurie des Loups is the first in 25 or so albums that I can't stop listening to! Music is art, and this album proves it." 9.5/10 - Sara Heitman (Blistering.com)
"Their music is pretty similar, too: although less docile this time round, Neige Et Noirceur play a very woods-and-snow nature-mystical brand of post-Burzum black metal, which is strangely easy on the ear despite the rasping aggression." - Zero Tolerance
"La Seigneurie des Loups offers us 6 deeply atmospheric, emotionally intense and certainly dark tracks reminiscent of a mixture of early Burzum, Markduk blastbeats and In The Woods, both in their styles as well as in a surprisingly (for a Quebecer) Scandinavian sound." -Battle Helm
After the mechanical fury of IV, Borgne is back with a more complex and torturous opus on which the martial and brutal parts are interlaced with darker, more eerie moments. On this album, Borgne mastermind Bornyhake has allied himself with Xasthur's Malefic and Vinterriket's CZ who supply very haunting keyboard pieces to the music. But don't let the somewhat more organic side of this new album fool you, Entraves de l'Âme will plunge you directly into a universe of hatred and horror...
- Malefic : All instruments on Drown in Nothingness
- CZ : All instruments on Moorwanderung
- Juno Nitta : Keyboards on Die Trying to Take Off the Rope, keyboards and guitar solo on The Plague
Borgne was assembled by mainmain Bornyhake in 1998, and quickly released it's first and only demo I, before going into hibernation for nearly ten years before coming back with a vengeance in 2007. Form there on, the band went into hyperdrive, putting out albums II and III in 2007, the 3.5 EP in 2008 and album IV in 2009. Entraves de l'Âme marks a departure from the numerical approach the group has followed since its inception, but music-wise, Borgne still evolves in the nihilistic spheres of industrial Black Metal
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