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Artist: LA DIVISION
MENTALE
Album: L’Extase Des Fous
Year: 2007
When I downloaded the free Diahableries sampler a while
ago, I found quite some familiar bands on it (A.N.A.E.L.,
Terrodrown, Glaukom Synod and Zorglüb for example) but
also quite some acts I didn’t knew before. Most of them
didn’t manage to surprise me in a positive way, with
exception of... La Division Mentale. This industrial
black metal band was featured on the sampler with a
track called “La Gale de mon Passé”, which was an
excellent and raw piece of music with surprisingly cool
industrial parts. After some research I found them on
MySpace too, and I found out that the new album was to
be released on May 4th! Excellent to be reviewed on this
page, right?
After an ambient intro, the album continues with ´ La
Gale de mon Passé´. The song starts rather old school,
but the furter it goes the more wicked industrial parts
are to be found in it. It switches from old school
programming parts to fast hyperactive programming parts,
while using raw guitar- and vocal works. The third track
is a deep ambient intermezzo, followed by a track named
´Satan Inside´. This track contains marching rythms,
accompanied by raw and atmospheric guitarwork and
preaching vocals (with exception of the chorus that is).
It’s an atmospheric track overall, with here and there
some weird keys. ‘Illusions Décharnées’ has a more noisy
and chaotic attitude. The guitar riff is very strong,
and the sampling and programming is maybe the most
wicked on this whole album. Also beware for the dark
intermezzo, which is very well placed! Another
instrumental ambient track follows, and right after
comes a track called ‘Discipline’. This track is a raw
mixture of black metal, death metal and industrial
metal. The intro even sounds a little bit Motorhead-ish!
‘Retour à l’onirique...’ and ... ‘Le Tout Indivisible’
can actually be named as one track, when the first one
is the intro for the second one. The outcome is an old
school black metal track with an industrial/ambient
intro and wicked guitarwork. I’m sure this song has also
some kind of deep lyrical meaning judging by the
sampling, but unfortunately my French isn’t good enough
to be 100% sure about that. The album ends with the
title track, which is an ambient outro.
It’s an album with excellent industrial metal tracks,
but in my opinion there are just a bit too much ambient
intermezzos. I am not a big ambient fan myself, but I
dig an intermezzo now and then to create some
atmosphere, as long as you don’t overdo it.
Unfortunately in my opinion, La Division Mentale overdid
it a little bit. Despite this, still a top score, with
the little note that if they had less ambient and more
“real” tracks, the score would even be higher.
Vote : 90 / 100
Review by: Gerardo |
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01. La Voix des Ombres
02. La Gale de mon Passé
03. L’abandon au Réel
04. Satan Inside
05. Illusions Décharnées
06. En Mon Âme et
Conscience
07. Discipline
08. Retour à
l’onirique...
09. ... Le Tout
Indivisible
10. L’Extase des Fous
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