In Harmonia Universali
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| Studio album by Solefald | ||
| Released | March 24, 2003 | |
| Recorded | April-July 2002 | |
| Genre | Avantgarde metal Black metal |
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| Length | 100:18 | |
| Label | Century Media | |
| Producer(s) | Börge Finstad and Solefald | |
| Professional reviews | ||
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| Solefald chronology | ||
| Pills Against The Ageless Ills (2001) |
In Harmonia Universali (2003) |
Red for Fire: An Icelandic Odyssey Part 1 (2005) |
In Harmonia Universali is the fourth full-length album by Norwegian avantgarde metal band Solefald, and their last under the Century Media label. It was released on March 24, 2003. The album featured lyrics sung in four languages, English, Norwegian, French, and German.
At the time, this can be considered the band's darkest and most ambitious work. Scathing black metal is interspersed with free-range jazz pieces and electronic dissonence. Clean singing and gravel-voiced narration work roam free amongst the combination of grinding guitars with Hammond organ and piano interludes, with occasional saxophone lines appearing from time to time to keep the experimental element Solefald is known for in tact.
Cornelius (the band's chief lyricist) had stated on the band website that much of the lyrics have a touch of Satanic undertones, and that it wasn't a coincidence; he believes that part of the formation of what metal is today is due to evil and the rhetorical figure of Satan, who in turn is praised on the song "Red Music Diabolos".
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[edit] Concept
Ten songs, ten wheels of time
To be buried in the body,
Grave to the mind -
Chained to an infinite universe
Where night is the rule
Ten songs, tell pills
To make the known look unknown
And the ancient feel new -
Pills against the ageless ills
Ten songs, ten rites
To purify the spirit -
Demons talking hard
And demons talk soft:
First, Gebura, for justice
Second, Munin, for knowledge
Third, Munch, for creativity
Fourth, Epictetus, for virtue
Then Dionysos, for pleasure -
Sixth, Diabolos, for music
Seventh, the Virgin, for fertility
Eighth, the Prophet, for charity
Ninth, Odin, for protection
Last, for light, the sungod Apollon
Ten songs, ten stories of
Extreme music science -
Solefald proceed to play
In Harmonia Universali
[edit] Track listing
- "Nutrisco Et Exinguo" – 7:11
- "Mont Blanc Providence Crow" – 5:16
- "Christiana (Edvard Munch Commemoration)" – 8:20
- "Epictetus & Irreversibility" – 5:58
- "Dionysify This Night Of Spring" – 8:12
- "Red Music Diabolos (Instrumental)" – 4:34
- "Buy My Sperm" – 4:35
- "Fraternité De La Grande Lumiére" – 5:12
- "The Liberation Of Destiny" – 6:28
- "Sonnenuntergang Im Weltraum" – 4:32
[edit] Credits
- Lazare (Borknagar, Age Of Silence, Ásmegin) - Apollonian harmonic sounds produced by the vocal folds and resonated by the cavities of head and throat. Instrument in which the sound and resources of the pipe organ are approximated by means of electronic services. Musical instrument having steel wire strings that sound when struck by felt-covered hammers operated from a keyboard. Percussion instruments consisting of hollow cylinders with drum heads stretched over one or both ends that are beaten with sticks.
- Cornelius (Sturmgeist) - Dionysian bardic sounds produced by the vocal folds and resonated by the cavities of head and throat. Flat-bodied electric instrument with a long fretted neck and six strings plucked with a pick. Flat-bodied acoustic instrument with a long fretted neck and six strings plucked with the fingers. Flat-bodied electric instrument with a long fretted neck and four strings plucked with a pick. Single sound items cut from larger sample space.
All lyrics and verse written by Cornelius.
[edit] Session musicians
- Saxophone on songs I, V & VIII: Kjetil Selvik
- Choir on songs III & V: Kristian Krüger, Kjetil Selvik and Sigurd Høye
