Arcturus - La Masquerade Infernale (1997)
Arcturus - La Masquerade Infernale (1997)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 341 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 106 MB | Covers - 139 MB
Genre: Avant-garde Metal | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Music For Nations/Misanthropy (CDMFN 230)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 341 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 106 MB | Covers - 139 MB
Genre: Avant-garde Metal | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Music For Nations/Misanthropy (CDMFN 230)
Arcturus, like only a few bands, during their career managed to change their sound on every album. The famous debut album is a classic Symphonic Black Metal release, but 1997's "La Masquerade Infernale" is everything but Black Metal. Garm's shrieking is put aside, (Garm himself actually is) letting G.Wolf do the job, with the occasional help of ICS Vortex on a few tracks. Black Metal being gone, Arcturus create a strange, unique sound that is surely metal sounding, but it doesn't have its attitude, not one bit. For starters the music is very theatrical, especially in the weird vocals, high pitched and sort of operatic. The music is very orchestrated, meaning that all the instruments, keyboards, strings, guitars, vocals, have all a very classical attitude when playing, keyboards being the main attraction. The combination of instruments, or more accurately the music itself, is changing pretty frequently, a characteristic that can be found in a lot of Avant-Garde Metal. There's also some heavy electronics and strange beats, as well as a few samples, and all these always steal the scene when used.
"La Masquerade Infernale" is an intriguing and dramatic album, though many times it feels like listening to this album is like finding yourself in a museum of horrors, where you see the strangest and darkest things. But also, this album has a very distorted, unclear, sense of romanticism, probably because of the dominant operatic theme. The album has a kind of muddy production, and many of the instruments and vocals sometimes can be lost in the mix.
Tracklist:
01. Master Of Disguise
02. Ad Astra
03. The Chaos Path
04. La Masquerade Infernale
05. Alone
06. The Throne Of Tragedy
07. Painting My Horror
08. Of Nails And Sinners
Total time: 46:49
Exact Audio Copy V1.3 from 2. September 2016
EAC extraction logfile from 26. August 2017, 13:16
Arcturus / La Masquerade infernale
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EAC extraction logfile from 26. August 2017, 13:16
Arcturus / La Masquerade infernale
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Thanks to Zloslaw