Forteresse, a quite young band of the French-speaking part of Canada, has devoted to the traditional and raw Black Metal, which for all that contains sporadic, minor Folk elements.

So the first song gets opened immediately sprightly with a short accordion part. On that follows a long, catching piece, characterized by less rhythmic alternations and a silent, epic striking guitar melody. Rhythm is mostly easy to grasp driving and of a simple state. The second track Une Nuit Pour La Patrie immediately begins tempestuous stomping; a catching, relatively calm performed guitar melody is heard, too. Although this constantly into the foreground placed melody is simple and catching, it has a certain melodious aura, which perfectly harmonizes with the rough, rhythmic catching. After some minutes Une Nuit Pour La Patrie gets more varied. The calm guitar melody ceases, the hammering drums get to be silent and it entirely passes over into a sluggish part, wherein the former guitar melody is joining again until the song fades out in its initial catching speediness.
At the beginning of La Flamme Et Le Lys there's also a short, very gentle sounding folk part, whereby I automatically have to think of 18th century colonists, which settle the North American continent. Probably this historical topic plays a contentwise role in the music of Forteresse, on which but also not only these Folk-inserts point the direct purchase to the homeland Forteresse's.
Also the rest of Métal Noir Québécois is sobered in this stylistic garment. When just reading this you cold get the impression, that all songs sound similarly and the record thereby becomes bored quite fast. That isn't so. There're single structural finesses and arrangements during the songs attending to a well playing. An alternating detail is those vocals changing sporadically during the songs and thereby are quite vehement and emphatic.

Métal Noir Québécois pleases me very well. It's mainly in a catching fast and plain record that is performed by Forteresse very convincing and punctual powerful as thrilling. Despite of this speediness the record has, owing to this present, the whole record passing guitar melody as those single slow passages, a awesome atmosphere, keeping without ebbing from the first to the last song.


Aceust

(Translation by: G.P.)

01. La moisson de la liberté
02. Une nuit pour la patrie
03. La flamme et le lys
04. De sang et de volonté
05. Métal noir québécois
06. Honneur et tradition


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