Adagio

Friday, 07 April 2006

Band members:

Stéphan Forté - guitars, pianoGus Monsanto - vocals
Franck Hermany - bass
Eric Lebailly - drums
Kevin Codfert - keyboards

Country:

France

Bio:
In October 2000, two weeks after the end of the recording of Sanctus Ignis, Stephan Forté started the composition of the new Adagio album entitled “Underworld”. Between the intensive recording of “Sanctus Ignis” and the preparation of “Underworld”, Stephan’s musical and mental worlds had changed considerably, marked first by new musical influences, and also by much research about his very deep self. This introspection led him to many questions about life and death, which definitely influenced his current way of life and composing.

Musically, the first big influence of this new album is the famous film music composer John Williams. Amazed by the orchestral art of the genius, Stephan decided to study the composition technique of the maestro, and tried to develop a similar use of orchestral arrangement in the music of Adagio. For almost two years, he divided his time between the study of orchestration and the composition. The result is the first part of the song “Underworld”, which took six months of hard work. This four-minute introduction clearly shows the new musical direction of the band: dark and orchestral.

If Mozart, Penderecki, Bartok and Messiaen mostly represent the classical face of Adagio, the metal side takes a more extreme direction. “Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia”, the album of the Finnish cult black metal act “Dimmu Borgir” charmed Stephan right away. The power of the songs, the use of orchestral arrangements and the obscure concept of the music brought Stephan back to the time that he was listening to death metal bands such as Death, Carcass, Dismember, Suffocation, Pestilence and many others. As almost ten years have passed since then, Stephan wanted to discover the current extreme scene, in which his favorite bands are Dimmu Borgir, Messhugah, Nile, Fear Factory and Children of Bodom.

But even though these great bands are very inspiring, Stephan did not want to avoid the melodic vocals and the progressive vibe. However, for the first time he asked RMS Hreimarr, frontman of the black metal band “Anorexia Nervosa” to make a guest appearance on two songs: “The mirror stage” and “From my sleep...to someone else”. This song is definitely the most personal composition Stephan has ever written and clearly represents the strange and dark world that he was in while composing “Underworld”. This mental state pulled him down during one year but brought great deal of richness to his compositions. Each song is tinged with the pain of these strong moments and consequently brings Stephan’s emotional and dramatic aspects of composition to another degree.

Discography:

Dominate (2005)
1. Fire Forever
2. Arcanas Tenebrae/Dominate
3. Terror Jungle
4. Children Of The Dead Lake
5. R’Lyeh The Dead
6. The Darkitecht
7. Kissing The Crow
8. Fame
9. Undying (Bonus Japan)

A band live in the upperworld (2004)

1. Introitus (1:22)
2. Second Sight (6:07)
3. Chosen (8:43)
4. The Stringless Violin (6:32)
5. From My Sleep... To Someone Else (7:47)
6. Promises (5:14)
7. Seven Lands Of Sins (14:02)
8. Panem Et Circences (Jap Bonus) (6:18)
9. In Nomine... (6:24)

Underworld (2003)

1. Next Profundis (7:39)
2. Introitus - Solvet Saeclum In Fadilla (8:14)
3. Chosen (7:52)
4. From My Sleep... To Someone Else (6:37)
5. Underworld (13.25)
6. Promisses (5:03)
7. The Mirror Stage (6:31)
8. Niflheim (8:10)
9. Missa Aterna (6:37)

Sanctus ignis (2001)

1. Second Sight (6:07)
2. The Inner Road (5:45)
3. In Nomine... (5:04)
4. The Stringless Violin (7:00)
5. Seven Lands Of Sin (11:40)
6. Order Of Enlil (4:19)
7. Sanctus Ignis (4:07)
8. Panem Et Circences (5:21)
9. Immigrant Song (4:55)
10. Bonus track: Niflheim (4:05)

Mp3: In nomine

Official Website:
http://www.adagio-online.com/

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