Words: Eddy Hanna
Etat D'âme
(7.5/10)
Black Folly is a Lebanese one-man band, started by Marwan Antonios in the year 2008. The band embraced the Ambient Metal, Post Black Metal and Post Rock styles. Last September, it released Etat D'âme (French for State of Mind). Etat D’âme is the first full-length album by Black Folly after an EP and various demos, some of which were not released. Upon listening to the of the bass in some parts, in album, Cendres (Ôde Aux a similar fashion to the Arbres) generates an introDepressive Suicidal Black ductory ambience that Metal band Thy Light's guitar adjusts a listener's ear in style, but much more sorrowtune with the particular ful than depressed. This role fusion which will be experiis predominant in the second enced through this album. track, Splendeur De La Then secured by the drums, Nature, as elements of the song propagates through Shoegaze decorate the its progress in both rested atmosphere in a melody. andD'âme(French weighty encounters album verges into Etat for State of Mind) is the firstThe full-length album by Black ck Follyy aaŌer Ōer an EP and various where the slow, distorted the atmosphere of Depresdemos, some of which were not released. rhythm guitar intensifies the sive Black Metal without "atmospheric" sentiments in There are no vocals entitling itself to the genre in the song. Moving forth, it except for one instance of much the same way as appears as the rhythm shrieking at the end of Forêt, Shoegaze is employed. In guitar conforms to the role which is no demand or lighter instances of the necessity, much like the album, the many effects that astutely music is fuse these genres together. cleansed of That said, Etat D'âme is an distorted instrumental album of 7 instruments tracks. and relieved with clean This album allows guitars either much more projection than as an introducinterpretation. Being instrution (Sous Le mental, it is not confined Poids Écrasant within the contextual interDe La Réalité) pretation of lyrics; the album or a conclusion could express the ambiguity (Splendeur De of mysticism, the gloominess La Nature), or of sorrow, the dissonant shifts between texture of existence, or any light and heavy projection of its own musical like Fausse portrait. Extase. Etat D'âme experiments with Shoegaze, Black Metal oriented Avant-Garde, and Atmospheric/Depressive Black Metal, animating 25 minutes of a consistently hybrid fusion in a versatile innovation of Post-Black metal.
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