Fassade

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Fassade
Fassade cover
Studio album by Lacrimosa
Released 2001
Recorded Impuls Musicproductions, Hamburg
Genre Gothic Metal
Length 52:55
Label Hall of Sermon
Producer Tilo Wolff
Lacrimosa chronology
Elodia
(1999)
Fassade
(2001)
Echos
(2003)

Fassade (English: Façade) is the seventh album by German duo Lacrimosa.

[edit] Themes

Whereas the previous album Elodia centred on love, Fassade's theme is that of a lonely individual feeling overwhelmed by society, exemplified by the central song, Fassade, divided into three Sätze (movements), and the album's artwork. There are also a sound between symphonic gothic metal and funeral doom metal rhythms and patterns, as seen in Fassade's differents parts.

The album's cover shows a crowd of men and women identically dressed in what can be assumed to be grey (the album's cover is in greyscale), emotionlessly watching three women wearing gothic lingerie parade down a catwalk. Every single individual in the audience has his or her head wired to the person next to them, implying that they are all part of a hivemind. The only person present other than the models and the audience is Lacrimosa's trademark clown, standing in a side door. The back of the album's cover shows that the back wall of the theatre has fallen away, revealing nothing but fog and the top of a skyscraper.

[edit] Track listing

English translations of the German titles are in (brackets).

  1. "Fassade - 1. Satz" (Façade - 1st Movement) - 09:16
  2. "Der Morgen danach" (The Morning After) - 04:17
  3. "Senses" - 06:03
  4. "Warum so tief?" (Why So Deep?) - 09:11
  5. "Fassade - 2. Satz" (Façade - 2nd Movement) - 05:34
  6. "Liebesspiel" (Loveplay) - 04:38
  7. "Stumme Worte" (Silent Words) - 05:57
  8. "Fassade - 3. Satz" (Façade - 3rd Movement) - 07:44