1349 "Revelations Of The Black Flame (UK, Candlelight Records, CANDLDE284CD)"

Revelations of the Black Flame is the fourth studio album by Norwegian black metal band 1349.

The studio sessions took place during December 2008 in a woodland studio in Bøverbru (a village in the Toten region of Norway). 1349 mixed the album in January 2009. The album was co-mixed by Tom Gabriel Fischer. This marked the first and as yet, only experimental album by the band, as they almost completely abandoned their earlier old school black metal style, instead making use of irregular song structures and more progressive ideas. The album also contains a variety of dark ambient compositions spread throughout. After this release, the band would return to their previous, more straight-forward style.

Track listing

The limited edition version of the album features a bonus disc containing a live performance in Stockholm recorded in 2005.

Disc 1 - Revelations of the Black Flame

1. "Invocation" - 6:13
2. "Serpentine Sibilance" - 4:35
3. "Horns" - 3:04
4. "Maggot Fetus... Teeth Like Thorns" - 3:46
5. "Misanthropy" - 3:33
6. "Uncreation" - 6:59
7. "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun" (Pink Floyd cover) - 6:13
8. "Solitude" - 3:38
9. "At the Gate..." - 6:52

Time: 44:51

Disc 2 - Works of Fire, Forces of Hell

1. Hellfire 05:47   
2. Chasing Dragons 06:33
3. Satanic Propaganda 03:14
4. I Am Abomination 04:13  
5. Manifest 05:06  
6. Slaves to Slaughter 08:55   

Time:   33:48  

Comes with a reversible double-cover booklet where "Revelations of the Black Flame" reads from one side and "Works of Fire, Forces of Hell" from the other.

Track 2-12 misspelled on the slipcase cover and jewel case back cover as "Chasing Dragon".

Recording information:

CD1:

Recorded in Studio Studio Nyhagen under the full moon, December 2008/January 2009.

Mixed in January 2009 at Studio Studio Nyhagen.

Mastered at Vektor Studios, full moon, February 2009.

CD2:

Recorded live at Kolinsborg on 3 of December 2005 at the end of the "Hellfire" European tour.

"This is one of the last concerts with 1349's original lineup. It was performed in front of 18 Swedes, a drunk Mexican and a German hooker."

Peste Noire "La Chaise-Dyable (Limited Edition Digipak)"

La Chaise-Dyable, the band's sixth album, was recorded at La mesnie Herlequin and released in 2015, musically the album sees the band continue the style and influences featured in the previous self-titled album and the lyrics, according to Famine deal with countryside boredom and monotony, anarchism and the region of La Chaise-Dieu.

In a first for the group, the second version of the song "Dans ma nuit" was the subject of a professional music video directed by Anaon Productions, who also produced a documentary for the band mainly about the album's production but also about the band's concept and views.

It was around this time that Famine began openly showing his support to the Azov battalion in Ukraine. Another music video was made in 2017 for the song "Le dernier putsch", it featured М8Л8ТХ founder and frontman Alexey Levkin who also helped co-produce the video with his label Militant Zone, as well as organize a private release screening of the video for both bands, their fans and invited guests like Finnish NSBM band Goatmoon.

Tracklist:

1. Avant le putsch 02:15   
2. Le dernier putsch 05:49  
3. Payés sur la bête 06:22   
4. Le Diable existe 09:03   
5. À la Chaise-Dyable 07:57  
6. Quand je bois du vin 04:51   
7. Dans ma nuit (2nd version) 08:06   

Time:    44:23

Lyrics from "Le dernier putsch" were originally written by Famine for Akitsa in 2008.

There is an error on the title of the song number 2: on the digipak, it's written "Le dernier pustch" instead of "Le dernier putsch".

Recording information:

Recorded in "La mesnie Herlequin" studio, except drums recorded in NKS studio.

Peste Noire "Peste Noire"

The band's fifth album, self-titled as Peste Noire, was released in June 2013 on their own label. It was entirely composed, recorded and mixed by Famine and new drummer Ardraos. The album theme is anti-urban and inspired by local history, folklore and legends, and contains Oi! influences. The album featured guest vocals by Roman Saenko of Drudkh and Hate Forest fame, Ravenlord and Melkor of the controversial Swedish band Woods of Infinity, and Lord Arawn from Sacrificia Mortuorum.

Tracklist:

1. Le retour de la peste 03:51  
2. Démonarque 07:42   
3. La bêche et l'épée contre l'usurier 08:10
4. Niquez vos villes 06:46  
5. Le clebs noir de Pontgibaud 05:15  
6. Ode 04:16  
7. La Blonde 04:09  
8. Moins trente degrés Celsius 06:26   

Time:    46:35  

DVD-sized digibook with hot gold embossed cover design and 24 pages containing lyrics and illustrations.

Song titles in English:

1. The Return of the Plague

2. Demonarch

3. The Spade and the Sword against the Usurer

4. Go Fuck your Towns!

5. The black hound of Pontgibaud*

6. Ode

7. The Blonde

8. Minus Thirty Celsius Degrees

* Pontgibaud is a small town in Central France.

Official lyrics translation by M. D. L. & L'Atrabilaire M available Here.

Recording information:

Recorded in "La mesnie Herlequin" studio.

Peste Noire "L'Ordure à l'état Pur"

L'Ordure à l'état Pur (French for The pure essence of Garbage) is the fourth full-length studio album by the French black metal band Peste Noire. It was released in 2013 on the Compact Disc format under bandleader Ludovic "Famine" Faure's own record label: La Mesnie Herlequin, which he established that same year.

Although fundamentally a black metal album at its core, L'Ordure à l'état Pur exhibits prominent French folk music, avant-garde, and industrial elements mixed in with traces of ska punk, post-metal, and electronia.

In addition to the name of the album itself, its song titles and lyrics are entirely written/sung in the French language – maintaining a consistency with the band's other releases.

Track listing

1. "Casse, Pêches, Fractures et Traditions" Breaking, Punches, Bone fractures and Traditions 10:48
2. "Cochon Carotte et les sœurs Crotte" Pig, Carrots and the Turd Sisters 8:28
3. "J’avais rêvé du Nord" I had dreamt of the North 20:26
4. "Sale Famine von Valfoutre" Sale Famine Von Valfuck 11:32
5. "La condi hu" The human condition 9:09

Total length: 60:23

This is the first release on La Mesnie Herlequin.

The official edition has the following serial number: CA ARKAPESTENOIRE @@ - ifpi lv88 5/2/2011 3 : 29 : 00 PM 0000710139

Peste Noire ended their partnership with Transcendental Creations (La Mesnie Herlequin Amérique) in 2013. Since 2013 the band have denied Transcendental Creations the rights to repress any Peste Noire material and consider any further repressings of this album by Transcendental Creations as bootlegs.

Recording information:

All songs, lyrics and concept by La Sale Famine de Valfunde.

Recorded and mixed between August 2010 and January 2011 at the Green Studio (Fr) by Engwar.

Mastered at Finnvox Studios.