I’ve already made a blog post about this album. You can find it here, here’s an excerpt from my blog, plus a couple of thoughts at the end.

Il Était Une Forêt…

The metal archives hates reviews that take the album “track by track” but I don’t care, so I’m doing just that.

Cicatrices

I play these when I go to sleep, the track “Cicatrices” grabbed my attention. We have those screams at 3:30, then get ready for it, that riff at 4:29? I always sway my head and shoulders along it, it sounds like everything is falling apart, and it’s just oh, so beautiful. I swear I’m gonna create a hall of riffs that every time I hear, I need to stop everything I’m doing and vibe to them. You just can’t listen to that 4:29 without paying attention to it. Plus the piano that joins in at that part. F-uck-ing. Just wow.

Veux-Tu Danser

The intro is haunting. Baby sounds, and little baby song chimes. I love it when artists sample stuff about childhood, and when they sample it well, it works amazingly. Like that one time Lifelover sampled “Emil i Lönneberga - Bom sicka bom” at the end of “Nackskott”? Just haunting, to hear a happy innocent song play in such a gut-wrenching album. I’ll make a post about bands sampling cool stuff.

Apparently the track translates to “Do You Want to Dance?” (hah!) after that riff in Cicatrices? I’ll take you up on that offer!

All in all the album is haunting, beautiful, brutal, and of course depressive. I will be looking like this when I read the name “GRIS”

Anyway it’s been almost two months since I’ve listened to that album, I still come back to it. I started appreciating the other tracks as well Le Gala Des Gens Heureux and Profonde Misanthropie are great as well. I cannot seem to describe it for I lack the necessary knowledge and terminology but good god is a depressing.

Also wow I just looked at the translation of the track names:

1. Once upon a Forest…
2. The Reception of Happy People
3. Scar
4. Do You Want to Dance?
5. Deep Misanthropy
6. The Dryad

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