PENSÉES NOCTURNES - GROTESQUE

Whether because of the sectarian legends or the true aesthetic, Black Metal has never been a style in which it has been innovated. As in everything, the exception confirms the rule, you only have to think of ARCTURUS or ULVER, but the shots of the French group PENSÉES NOCTURNES do not go there. This one-man band, called Vaerohn, offers us the perfect harmony between the most depressing Black Metal and the bombast of classical music. Ok, yeah, that's done, but there are ways and ways to do things.

The overture "Vulgum Pecus" is ideal to open an album full of feelings, and not as something pretty at all. The words that fill the mind as you listen to the album are torture, pain, suffering, loneliness, and even death. «Paria» is the perfect symphony of mixing all these feelings, especially thanks to that heartbreaking blues touch that they already offered us in their day with their previous album 'Vacuum'.

Each song is a different world where agony and madness have a melancholic and heavy part, as in the songs "Eros", "Monosis" or "Thokk", and another of aggressiveness, increased by the desperate screams of Vaerohn, as' Ràhu 'or' Hel '.

If with the overture Vaerohn made us anticipate the minimalist symphony of desolation with which we were going to find, the end of the album was not going to be less. To the rhythm of the piano he closes «Suivant», which reminds us of the torture in which PENSÉES NOCTURNES has plunged us throughout the album. A perfect requiem attributed to the end, to death.

Obviously, you have to listen to 'Grotesque' with an open mind, it is one of those records that with a single listen you do not perceive everything that PENSÉES NOCTURNES can give of itself. So lovers of the purest and hardest Black Metal, refrain from this album because of its pure essence it only has the agonizing screams and some inhuman programmed blast-beats.

PENSÉES NOCTURNES is for people who are tired of hearing more of the same and looking for something that surprises them.

Xènia Senserrich

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