Fleurety
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Fleurety is a Norwegian
avant-garde metal band. The band was formed in 1991 by Svein Egil Hatlevik and Alexander Nordgaren.
in 1993. After that came the 7" EP A Darker Shade of Evil
in 1994, released via the English label Aesthetic Death Records. Both of these were in a fairly traditional Norwegian black metal
style, although with very high-pitched screaming vocals, giving the band a characteristic sound.
In 1995, the band released the album Min Tid Skal Komme
, as a cooperation between Aesthetic Death Records and Misanthropy Records. This recording featured a progressive
/psychedelic
black metal style with atonal harmonics, folk music
elements, and female vocals by Norwegian pop singer Marian Aas Hansen.
With 1999's mini-album Last-Minute Lies
, the band moved even further away from their black metal origins. This recording and the following album was released by Supernal Music
.
In 2000, Fleurety released their hitherto last album Department of Apocalyptic Affairs
. This album showed an even more eclectic
musical style, spanning metal
, jazz
and electronica
, and featured an array of guest musicians from the intersection of the Norwegian black and avant garde metal scenes; among them Kristoffer Rygg and Tore Ylwizaker from Ulver
, Hellhammer
and Maniac
from Mayhem
, Carl-Michael Eide
from Aura Noir
and Ved Buens Ende
, Steinar Sverd Johnsen
from Arcturus
, and Einar Sjursø from Beyond Dawn
.
The Min tid skal komme album was reissued by Candlelight Records
in 2003, featuring the A Darker Shade of Evil recording and a track recorded for the 1995 Blackend compilation album, entitled "Absence". This album was also re-released in 2008 as a double gatefold LP through Aesthetic Death Records featuring the same material as the CD reissue plus the Black Snow
demo.
In October 2009, Fleurety released the 7" vinyl ep Ingentes Atque Decorii Vexilliferi Apokalypsis. This release featured remakes of vintage
material: the songs "Descent into Darkness", from the 1993 demo Black Snow
, and "Absence". "Descent into Darkness" includes Hellhammer
and Necrobutcher
of Mayhem
, and Runhild Gammelsæter
as guest musicians. This was the first in a string of EPs only available on vinyl and in a limited edition. The second release in the series, Evoco Bestias was released in December 2010.
Fleurety is reported to release a new 7" in 2011. The title will be Et Spiritus Meus Semper Sub Sanguinantibus Stellis Habitabit.
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
avant-garde metal band. The band was formed in 1991 by Svein Egil Hatlevik and Alexander Nordgaren.
History
The band released their first demo Black SnowBlack Snow
Black Snow can refer to:* Black Snow , a 1990 Chinese film* A name used by wrestler Booker T* A comedy by Mikhail Bulgakov...
in 1993. After that came the 7" EP A Darker Shade of Evil
A Darker Shade of Evil
A Darker Shade of Evil is an EP by the Norwegian black metal band Fleurety.This album was later included in Min Tid Skal Komme a re-issued version of Min Tid Skal Komme.-Track listing:...
in 1994, released via the English label Aesthetic Death Records. Both of these were in a fairly traditional Norwegian black metal
Black metal
Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. Common traits include fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, blast beat drumming, raw recording, and unconventional song structure....
style, although with very high-pitched screaming vocals, giving the band a characteristic sound.
In 1995, the band released the album Min Tid Skal Komme
Min Tid Skal Komme
Min Tid Skal Komme is the debut album by the Norwegian avant-garde metal band Fleurety. The album was re-released in 2003 with the inclusion of their EP A Darker Shade of Evil...
, as a cooperation between Aesthetic Death Records and Misanthropy Records. This recording featured a progressive
Progressive rock
Progressive rock is a subgenre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s as part of a "mostly British attempt to elevate rock music to new levels of artistic credibility." John Covach, in Contemporary Music Review, says that many thought it would not just "succeed the pop of...
/psychedelic
Psychedelic rock
Psychedelic rock is a style of rock music that is inspired or influenced by psychedelic culture and attempts to replicate and enhance the mind-altering experiences of psychedelic drugs. It emerged during the mid 1960s among folk rock and blues rock bands in United States and the United Kingdom...
black metal style with atonal harmonics, folk music
Folk music
Folk music is an English term encompassing both traditional folk music and contemporary folk music. The term originated in the 19th century. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted by mouth, as music of the lower classes, and as music with unknown composers....
elements, and female vocals by Norwegian pop singer Marian Aas Hansen.
With 1999's mini-album Last-Minute Lies
Last-Minute Lies
Last-Minute Lies is an EP by the Norwegian avant-garde metal band Fleurety.-Credits:*Alexander Nordgaren - Guitars, Bass*Svein Egil Hatlevik - Drums, Synthesizers, Vocals...
, the band moved even further away from their black metal origins. This recording and the following album was released by Supernal Music
Supernal Music
Alex Kurtagić , born 1970 and residing in the United Kingdom, is a radical traditionalist, racial-realist, elitist, pro-White activist and author on the Alternative and New Right author, artist, musician, publisher, translator, interviewer, blogger, movie and book reviewer, prolific writer,...
.
In 2000, Fleurety released their hitherto last album Department of Apocalyptic Affairs
Department of Apocalyptic Affairs
Department of Apocalyptic Affairs is the second album by the Norwegian avant-garde metal band Fleurety. The band used many guest musicians from the Norwegian music scene.-Track listing:#"Exterminators" – 6:50#"Face in a Fever" – 6:16...
. This album showed an even more eclectic
Eclecticism in music
Eclecticism is used to describe a composer's conscious use of styles alien to his nature, or from one or more historical styles. The term is also used pejoratively to describe music whose composer, thought to be lacking originality, appears to have freely drawn on other models .-Sources:* Kennedy,...
musical style, spanning metal
Heavy metal music
Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...
, jazz
Jazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...
and electronica
Electronica
Electronica includes a wide range of contemporary electronic music designed for a wide range of uses, including foreground listening, some forms of dancing, and background music for other activities; however, unlike electronic dance music, it is not specifically made for dancing...
, and featured an array of guest musicians from the intersection of the Norwegian black and avant garde metal scenes; among them Kristoffer Rygg and Tore Ylwizaker from Ulver
Ulver
Ulver is a musical group from Norway. Since their first, folklore-influenced black metal release entitled Bergtatt – Et eeventyr i 5 capitler , Ulver’s musical style has been fluid and increasingly eclectic, blending genres such as rock, electronica, symphonic and chamber traditions, noise and...
, Hellhammer
Jan Axel Blomberg
Jan Axel "Hellhammer" Blomberg is a three time Spellemannprisen award-winning heavy metal drummer. He is most well known for his drumming with the band Mayhem, with which he began his career...
and Maniac
Sven Erik Kristiansen
Sven Erik Kristiansen is a Norwegian musician. He is best known as the former vocalist in the black metal band Mayhem under the stage name Maniac.-Personal life:...
from Mayhem
Mayhem (band)
Mayhem is a Norwegian black metal band formed in 1984 in Oslo, Norway and regarded as one of the pioneers of the influential Norwegian black metal scene...
, Carl-Michael Eide
Carl-Michael Eide
Carl-Michael Eide is a Norwegian black metal musician, multi-instrumentalist , and vocalist. He is also known under stage names Aggressor, Czral and Exhurtum. He has played in various black metal and avant-garde metal bands...
from Aura Noir
Aura Noir
Aura Noir is a black metal/thrash metal band from Oslo, Norway. Aura Noir is heavily influenced by early thrash bands such as Slayer, Sodom and Kreator, to the latter they have also dedicated some of their songs...
and Ved Buens Ende
Ved Buens Ende
Ved Buens Ende is a Norwegian heavy metal band. Their sound is diverse with quiet instrumental jazz influenced sections and aggressive black metal blast beats and vocals...
, Steinar Sverd Johnsen
Steinar Sverd Johnsen
Steinar Sverd Johnsen is a Norwegian keyboardist and composer, born 1972. Sverd last played keyboards and synthesizers in Arcturus and was also the main composer for the band. He formed the band with Jan Axel Blomberg of Mayhem in 1987, originally under the moniker Mortem...
from Arcturus
Arcturus (band)
Arcturus is an avant-garde metal band formed in Norway in 1987. They named it Arcturus , after the Behenian fixed star Arcturus.-Biography:The band has released four official full-length albums...
, and Einar Sjursø from Beyond Dawn
Beyond Dawn
Beyond Dawn is a Norwegian avant-garde metal band turned electropop composed of Espen Ingierd, Petter Haavik, Tore Gjedrem, and Einar Sjursø. They are described on their official website as "Norway's Best & Least Selling Act", which most likely insinuates Beyond Dawn's distinct artistic integrity...
.
The Min tid skal komme album was reissued by Candlelight Records
Candlelight Records
Candlelight Records is an independent record label based in Europe founded by former Extreme Noise Terror bassist Lee Barrett, though it has had a division in the United States since January 2001. Candlelight Records specialises in black metal and death metal, having bands such as Emperor,...
in 2003, featuring the A Darker Shade of Evil recording and a track recorded for the 1995 Blackend compilation album, entitled "Absence". This album was also re-released in 2008 as a double gatefold LP through Aesthetic Death Records featuring the same material as the CD reissue plus the Black Snow
Black Snow
Black Snow can refer to:* Black Snow , a 1990 Chinese film* A name used by wrestler Booker T* A comedy by Mikhail Bulgakov...
demo.
In October 2009, Fleurety released the 7" vinyl ep Ingentes Atque Decorii Vexilliferi Apokalypsis. This release featured remakes of vintage
Vintage
Vintage, in wine-making, is the process of picking grapes and creating the finished product . A vintage wine is one made from grapes that were all, or primarily, grown and harvested in a single specified year. In certain wines, it can denote quality, as in Port wine, where Port houses make and...
material: the songs "Descent into Darkness", from the 1993 demo Black Snow
Black Snow
Black Snow can refer to:* Black Snow , a 1990 Chinese film* A name used by wrestler Booker T* A comedy by Mikhail Bulgakov...
, and "Absence". "Descent into Darkness" includes Hellhammer
Jan Axel Blomberg
Jan Axel "Hellhammer" Blomberg is a three time Spellemannprisen award-winning heavy metal drummer. He is most well known for his drumming with the band Mayhem, with which he began his career...
and Necrobutcher
Necrobutcher
Jørn Stubberud is a Norwegian musician. He is best known as the bassist in the black metal band Mayhem under the stage name Necrobutcher...
of Mayhem
Mayhem (band)
Mayhem is a Norwegian black metal band formed in 1984 in Oslo, Norway and regarded as one of the pioneers of the influential Norwegian black metal scene...
, and Runhild Gammelsæter
Runhild Gammelsæter
Runhild Gammelsæter is a musician notable for being the vocalist for the American bands Thorr's Hammer and Khlyst. She is also a professional biologist.-Biography:...
as guest musicians. This was the first in a string of EPs only available on vinyl and in a limited edition. The second release in the series, Evoco Bestias was released in December 2010.
Fleurety is reported to release a new 7" in 2011. The title will be Et Spiritus Meus Semper Sub Sanguinantibus Stellis Habitabit.
Studio albums
- Min Tid Skal KommeMin Tid Skal KommeMin Tid Skal Komme is the debut album by the Norwegian avant-garde metal band Fleurety. The album was re-released in 2003 with the inclusion of their EP A Darker Shade of Evil...
(1995) - Department of Apocalyptic AffairsDepartment of Apocalyptic AffairsDepartment of Apocalyptic Affairs is the second album by the Norwegian avant-garde metal band Fleurety. The band used many guest musicians from the Norwegian music scene.-Track listing:#"Exterminators" – 6:50#"Face in a Fever" – 6:16...
(2000)
EPs
- A Darker Shade of EvilA Darker Shade of EvilA Darker Shade of Evil is an EP by the Norwegian black metal band Fleurety.This album was later included in Min Tid Skal Komme a re-issued version of Min Tid Skal Komme.-Track listing:...
(1994) - Last-Minute LiesLast-Minute LiesLast-Minute Lies is an EP by the Norwegian avant-garde metal band Fleurety.-Credits:*Alexander Nordgaren - Guitars, Bass*Svein Egil Hatlevik - Drums, Synthesizers, Vocals...
(1999) - Ingentes Atque Decorii Vexilliferi Apokalypsis (2009)
- Evoco Bestias (2010)
Current members
- Svein Egil Hatlevik – drumsDrum kitA drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
, synthesizerSynthesizerA synthesizer is an electronic instrument capable of producing sounds by generating electrical signals of different frequencies. These electrical signals are played through a loudspeaker or set of headphones...
, vocalsSingingSinging is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments... - Alexander Nordgaren – bassBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
, guitarElectric guitarAn electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...
, vocals
External links
- [ Fleurety] at Allmusic
- Avant-garde Metal - Stories: Fleurety - Far Away From Any Messianic Complex