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Hi friends! Miran online!
Heavy music as folk and classic differs in geographic mark.
For example, what France is famous for? Wine, French bread and… and avant-garde metal.
And if cinema-guys and frog-eaters have already found their way and confidently make useful situation comedies,
then french musicians are always in process of searching.
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Looking on the first band it’s difficult to understand – are they French musicians or Greece theatre?
The thing is that their style of songs associates with Greece plays -
heroic stories, mythology, sensible protagonist...
...and a lot of blood in the end.
This concept which frame-mounted in music mix of metal, jazz and gothic
has born in Orlean in 2002 and got the name Akphaezya.
The project Akphaezya has born as the one-man-band with guitarist Stefan Zag-Zero as the leader.
In particular he has thought out the main lyrics concept.
Idea were very difficult, and only after appearing other musicians the project has increased enough rate.
In 2004 the band has recorded their demo-album with duration more than one hour, which has got very high rate of reviewers.
After this Akphaezya has coaches itself by concerts in motherland and in Belgium,
and in 2007 has made a decision to rewrite their material from demo-album for debut album.
Their first full-scale album "Antology II: Links from the Dead Trinity" has decreased the duration, getting necessary "standard" as music form by it.
And in 2008 it has been released on the label "Ascendance Records".
Then Akphaezya as is customary plays some live, but this time instead of underground clubs they do it on large international open-air festivals.
And after these gigs the team takes a rest from live activity and in 2010 starts to work with second full-scale album, which later has been released in 2012.
The material of this album is possible to describe like "very different Jazz-Metal",
with mood from melancholy gothic to lively and avant-garde dark-cabaret.
More to say about person who inhales the life in vocals and keyboards of Akphaezya, the pianist Nehl Aelin,
who has three enough interesting solo albums, which can decorate the music-library of quiet gothic music fans.
But the time has come to start out a refined listener!
The band Pryapisme can show how far can goes a long way French experiments with heavy music.
Holy ***! This hell mix of disco, 8-bit and extreme metal destroys the brain without a trace...
but in the same time it’s easy to listen.
Okay, let's speak about the band firstly... But there is nothing to say!
There isn't much information about Pryapisme - it’s only known the band has appeared in 2000,
formed their line-up a lot of time and today represents instrumental trio (Text under the photo: not trio!)
The band required a lot of time to release debut album – sure, because need to work hard for making good mix of
swing, balst-beat, nes-core, classic music, sheep bleat, cat mewing...wht?
And about the last thing: it's possible to find in the Internet this cover of the debut album,
but the variant with cat is the "official" obviously... just a grey cat without band and album name...
...heavy artillery, Pryapisme, heavy...
And not a long ago 1 April 2013 – Pryapisme has been suddenly delivered of the second full-size album "Hyperblast Super Collider".
Material on this album became a little bit less "classical", but much more psychedelically!
And on the cover of album still stands out the cat... but this time in nyan-cat style.
And not without purpose - during listen to this album it's possible to recall great and awful "Upyachka" (upyachka.ru)
The Pryapisme made a decision to fix these associations too by the crazy (upyachka-style) video for one of their song.
Even there is Putin in crab's role! Everything wide-compactly.
Let's go back from modern experiments to the past, to the springs of French avant-garde.
In 1989, in university of Amiens two musicians met: Arno Strobl and Axel Wursthorn.
In their wish of playing music bordered with bands like Mr.Bungle and Pan-Thy-Monium
these guys has found understanding and in 1995 has created project called Carnival in Coal.
In the beginning Axel and Arno wanted to play just extreme metal, but for the first 4 years of the existence of their band,
their material progressively took elements of different other styles and in 1999 Carnival in Coal has released two albums at one time.
These albums represented the mix of metal with disco and pop-music,
and the second album in addition rejoiced with two covers: "Maniac" of Michael Sembello and "*** Hostile" of Pantera.
The first two albums has got good response in mass media, and Carnival in Coal has become to work with new material more widely and started live activity.
Concerts were with active collaboration of invited musicians, once one of them were Frederic LECLERCQ from Dragonforce.
After 2 years after "French Cancan" were released the third full-size album of Carnival in Coal with enough interesting cover picture "Fear Not".
The quality of record has grown, both vocals as clean and extreme became rich...
and material, so avant-gard that sometimes looks funny.
Strobl-Wursthorn duet, like Kenny-Hunt duet have participated in music of many bands,
maybe that was the reason which delayed release of the next album.
The fourth and unfortunately the last album of Carnival in Coal has released in 2005.
This time the art result of the French crazy were very atmospheric and complete, although the music difference.
Album plays on contrasts - terrible intro is growing into funny rhythms of 80's,
and brutal mash completes with dodecaphonic song "Promenade",
which like epitaph itself finishes the last album of Carnival in Coal.
What do we have in the result?
Breaking of pattern, going outside the traditional music and experiments... on listeners.
It isn't known what to wait from bands like Akphaezya and Pryapisme in their next albums...
and monsters of music cubism Carnival in Coal... so, they've left us undefeated.
Meanwhile we have a winner of competition from previous show. The man with nickname Torus Port,
he has divine the clip of the band Stormlord on the song "I am Legend".
I wanna remember the rules of competition. We demonstrate the clip of the band, you divine it and we send the album of this band.
So you have a good chance to show your knowledge in music clips of metal. Go on! Here is the next clip fragment!
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