Les Morts Vont Vite [Import]

Shub-Niggurath | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 29, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Musea Records
• ASIN: B00004V9Q7
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #676,631 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars "Her" voice will grow on you,, October 13, 2005

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Noel Pratt "Kaviraj" (Washington, D.C., and better places) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Les Morts Vont Vite (Audio CD)

...all over you. Up and down your ancient spine, given time. I found that the point was to let this hideous work reveal itself to me, track after track. Go ahead, judge it -- at first. It will let you: it knows you're only human. But beware! Though this soprano sounded, to my ears, a bit false, I later understood it was only because the forces had her in their hands as a puppet-creature, and were using her as a mockery of all human. When you really start feeling this, I believe you will have found the dark heart of Shub-Niggurath. And Lovecraft will be proud.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars file between Magma and Univers Zero., September 5, 2007

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Lord Chimp (Monkey World) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Les Morts Vont Vite (Audio CD)

Shub-Niggurath is an entity in H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulu mythology. People would sometimes come into contact with the otherplanar entities such as Shub-Niggurath and would face the not-so-great consequences of insanity or death. stuff of which you would shudder to think, but their existence is so alien that makes the limits of human existence and cognition seem truly pathetic and hopeless. so much for the, erm, literary inspiration... The music is basically zeuhl, the primary reference is of course MAGMA, but where Magma's music takes one's spirit to soaring heights, Shub-Niggurath drags one through the lovecraftian abyss -- doom, fear, darkness, dissonance. for what it is worth, my translation of the french title is _The Dead Go Quick_ or something.

As always the main melodic tool is the vocals, here the harrowing soprano of Ann Stewart. Motivic cells are developed in an expressionistic landscape of ascending and descending chromatic chord progressions on electric guitar, piano and trombone. However, the zeuhl-stylings here are channeled through utter darkness and evil. The guitar solos are more like the tortured, primal sounds of early Bathory solos than anything from jazz or rock or fusion. The percussion owes more to modern classical than jazz as well. The painfully slow opening song, "Incipit Tragaedia", is a masterpiece of spiky textures, clench-fisted chords and modern harmony, with ghostly vocals. "Yog Sothoth" is abstract and horrible, feels like being eaten by the band's namesake. "La Ballade de Lenore" is minimalist, haunting and strangely pretty until it culminates with neurotic funk The last track, too long to type out by name, an unabashed miasma of brutality. music like this could be all too easily labelled pretentious, but the compositional skill is incredibly careful and evocative, and and can invite no complaints.

i hope you have this album already. otherwise, you must have boring musical taste or are simply too frightened to face this awesome nightmare.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Like Magma more than it's like anything else..., December 4, 2005

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Patrick Alexander (Las Cruces, New Mexico) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Les Morts Vont Vite (Audio CD)

But it's not that much like Magma, either, lacking the energy, repetition, and funk that suffuse Magma's work. Instead, this is music of brooding intensity punctuated by glorious frenzy. The best of Shub Niggurath's albums and also the most approachable. Not exactly easy listening, though.