Neonism [Original recording remastered, Import]

Solefald | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 14, 2007)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered, Import
• Label: Avant Garde
• ASIN: B000Q7ZOKI
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #785,055 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Proprietors of Red

2. Speed Increased to Scaffold

3. CK 11 Chanel No. 6

4. Fluorescent (The Total Orchestra)

5. A Motion Picture

6. Omnipolis

7. Backpacka Baba

8. Third Person Plural

9. 04.34 PM

10. The New Timelessness

11. Cosmophony

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Schizophrenic avantgarde-metal this is!, April 2, 2002

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M Flamman (Breda, the Netherlands) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Neonism (Audio CD)

Wow, this is a very, very strange band. It originally comes from the Norwegian black metal scen, but like some other bands (Arcturus, Ulver, Fleurety) is it far more interrested in experimenting with new and progressive sounds than many other (black) metal bands. This band is unique in every way. It integrates progressive and symphonic elements in their metal, together with strange and very complex songstructures. Theu sound very bombastic, even a little theatrical or operette-alike, but they don't sound like those bombastic gothic bands or something. No, they let their keyboards make the most complex and weird soundscapes, they sing both threatening and bombastic, and their lyrics are weird and even funny. Listen to CK2 Chanel no.6 for instance, or to Backpacka Baba (great cynical lyrics!): "white men came from across the see, and changed my underdeveloped diper, white men came across to me, and slashed my head with tabloid paper!". You see, this kind of lyrics: statements against society, consumerism etcetera. Listening to this cd is something you have to experience, this band is so unique, even in the (progressive) metal scenes! Who likes bands like Borknagar, Arcturus, Ulver or black metal like Emperor or Saytricon, should listen to this at least once in it's lifetime!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great!, April 15, 2005

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Night Wish "Night Wish" (Mexico) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Neonism (Audio CD)

I loved this album more than any other album Solefald has made.
The style is somehow similar to Arcturus (Masquerade Infernale Time) but with so much more feeling and rythm changes.
This album really has a diverse style from the first to the last track.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Music Masterpeice, January 16, 2006

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Maggoth (Philippines) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Neonism (Audio CD)

This album is one of the rare few I truly belive to be a masterpeice. This album is amazing. Solefald's Neonism finds ways to push the Black Metal genre farther through what I call a "Fashionable State". If you're looking for a new metal sound, and tired of the traditional "satanic" overtues...Solefald accomplishes that. perfectly.