Highly anticipated new album from French Black Metal band CELESTIA; featuring PESTE NOIRE, MORTIFERA, GENOCIDE KOMMANDO, GESTAPO 666 member!
Limited-edition deluxe DIGIPAK CD includes 16-page booklet. Original Import from Apparitia Recordings / Drakkar Productions, France. (2010)
Excellent continental Franco Black Metal, both grim and beautiful with subtle, yet skilled melodic execution and sophisticated musicianship contributing to high-calibre orthodox attack and Blackened atmosphere.
The album full name is "Archaenae Perfectii - L'arche Arcane des Parfaits".
Past and former members include musicians from: ALCEST, NUIT NOIRE, HIRILORN, MUTIILATION, FORGOTTEN WOODS, MORTIFERA, DARVULIA, BARBATOS, PESTE NOIRE, FORNICATION, etc.
+ Scott (aka Malefic) from XASTHUR, TWILIGHT, MORD, MANES, SUNN O))) has appeared as a session-member on some past recordings.
* TRACK-LIST:
1. Grandiohsia Obverturae / Vue du Ciel (6:23)
2. Demhiurghic Deity [Devilution] (3:38)
3. Phoenemenae of Creation (4:29)
4. Dogmatii Duality / Au Cr�puscule Sous les Larmes (4:09)
5. Dominus Crux Spiritus (4:43)
6. ArcheArcanae des Parfaits (1:30)
7. Perfectii Ketter Katharos (4:24)
8. Nuit Qui Brille Comme Soleil (3:52)
* Total playing-time = 33:22 minutes.
* Some excerpts from various online reviews:
This new album, 'Archaenae Perfectii L�Arche Arcane de Parfaits', is black metal in more ways than its musical sense, but instead of chaotic and uncontrolled violence, a sense of longing and desperation is present in the music, coupled with a performance that has that French sense of sophistication you wouldn�t find in the plentiful American or Norse groups permeating in the wicked underground... Far more desolate than the lamentable suicidal BM bands, CELESTIA is able to portray an impure agony and rage that darkens the most sunny of skies, as brutal electric and acoustic guitars, pulsing bass, pounding percussion, and bitterly acidic shrieks strangle every bit of life from the listener�s very soul. Examples like �Phoenemenae of Creation�, �Dominus Crux Spiritus�, and �Perfectii Ketter Katharos� showcase that angst-ridden darkness in as deep a shade as humanly possible.
Eating away at the fiber of your being with a slight shift in chords here. Sliding into a somewhat unexpected note there at the end of the passage over there. Like many of the best black metal efforts, 'Archaenae Perfectii' is a soul-leeching duress. It grows further enchanting and succinct with successive spins...
'Archaenae Perfectii' is an album that will sneak onto various top ten lists for 2010... CELESTIA has crafted a fine album that transcends its orthodoxy by wisely inserting a sublime melody here and there, or switching to the acoustic guitar for a quick breather. With this great new album, CELESTIA does separate itself from the festering carrion that is the black metal genre.
