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artist: Creatvre
title: Ex Cathedra
year: 2020
genre: Black Metal
type: Album
label: I, Voidhanger Records
language: French
rel. date: 2020-06-26
source: WEB/MP3
quality: CBR 320kbps / 44.1 kHz / Joint Stereo
runtime: 01:03:56
size: 161.26MB
rip date: 2025-08-04
source url: https://www.deezer.com/album/156368542
tracklist:
1. Fugue en Sol mineur 6:01
2. zÑ5mi 3:45
3. L'odyssée hyperpropulsée 6:52
4. Involution - Expectations 6:18
5. Note anticosmique 5:13
6. Neo Habilis 5:59
7. Le Roi Zogue 4:14
8. La brèvité de l'aphélie 3:41
9. Atlantis 11:20
10. Ethernellement 10:33
release notes:
Hailing from the murky depths of Brittany, CREATURE has been working
actively at crafting some of today's most exciting, forward-thinking and
unique metal music. With already two self-released albums under its belt
("Inquiétudes" in 2018, and "Contes Funèbres" in 2019) in less than a
year of existence, the band returns with a new full-length, "Ex
Cathedra", an eccentric work exuding art and culture from each groove.
The project of sole member Raphaël Fournier, CREATURE is a mighty,
undefinable and slightly worrying beastly entity with ever shifting and
blurry contours which leave the flabbergasted listener in awe. Rooted in
the avant-garde and symphonic black metal from the 90s as much as it is
in classic epic prog, CREATURE's music is intrepid and elegant, not
bound by any genre, rule nor norm. Taking cues also from Baroque,
60s-80s French pop, classical music, fanfare, French poetry and a whole
life of listening to music of all kinds, Fournier's brew features
intricate orchestrations of inventive guitars, thunderous rhythms, heavy
bass, majestic keyboards, horns and choirs. His work truly carries the
stigmas of a Leonardesque genius applied to a musical score, because of
the constant tension between an exuberant creative research and an
evident love for classical canons of ideal beauty and formal perfection.
Despite the meticulous arrangements and the complex geometric shapes
exhibited, "Ex Cathedra" is surprisingly coherent and by no means a
collage of sounds, nor a genre-hopping mess. Fournier has digested all
of his influences to create his own progressive black metal style, his
spectacular songwriting holding everything together in a natural way.
Accompanied by soul-clenching lyrics, the music breathes, expands and
contracts before soaring to unexpected heights, towards an oneiric
hyperuranion where gorgeous melodies and atmospheres of cosmic beauty
await.
Alternately energetic, thrilling, poetic and melancholic (often all at
once), CREATURE's "Ex Cathedra" stays always surprising and inebriating,
with a sense of grandeur pervading it all.
Known as Creature from 2018-2022, Creatvre from 2022 onwards.
https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Creatvre/3540444244