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 2011 on the Compact Disc format under bandleader Ludovic "Famine" Faure's own record label: La Mesnie Herlequin, which he established that same year.
Style Although fundamentally a black metal record 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. Moreover, the album features the playing of instruments that are seldom used in black metal music including the trombone, accordion, timpani, cello and épinette des Vosges.
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
Personnel Peste Noire DJ Famine (Ludovic Faure) – vocals, acoustic guitar, lead guitar, rhythm guitar, Epinette des Vosges, production Vicomte Chtedire de Kroumpadis – drums, percussion Audrey Sylvain – clean vocals
Session musicians Indria – bass guitar, fretless bass L'Atrabilaire Maldo – Occitan preaches Seigneur Arawn – vocals Lulu l'ermite – backing vocals Miss Peste Nègre – accordion Rachid de France – trombone
Additional personnel Engwar – engineering, mixing, cello, timpani and backing vocals Mika Jussila – mastering Valnègre (Jean-Emmanuel Simoulin) – artwork and photography
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