Fassade

Infobox Album | Name = Fassade
Type = Album
Artist = Lacrimosa


Released = 2001
Recorded = Impuls Musicproductions, Hamburg
Genre = Gothic metal
Length = 52:55
Label = Hall of Sermon
Producer = Tilo Wolff
Reviews =
Last album = Elodia (1999)
This album = "Fassade" (2001)
Next album = Echos (2003)

Fassade (English: "Façade") is the seventh album by German duo Lacrimosa.

Themes

Whereas the previous album "Elodia" centred on love, Fassade's theme is that of a lonely individual feeling overwhelmed by society, exemplified by the central song, "Fassade", divided into three "Sätze" (movements), and the album's artwork. There are also a sound between symphonic gothic metal and funeral doom metal rhythms and patterns, as seen in "Fassade"'s differents parts.

The album's cover shows a crowd of men and women identically dressed in what can be assumed to be grey (the album's cover is in greyscale), emotionlessly watching three women wearing gothic lingerie parade down a catwalk. Every single individual in the audience has his or her head wired to the person next to them, implying that they are all part of a hivemind. The only person present other than the models and the audience is Lacrimosa's trademark clown, standing in a side door. The back of the album's cover shows that the back wall of the theatre has fallen away, revealing nothing but fog and the top of a skyscraper.

Track listing

"English translations of the German titles are in (brackets)."

#"Fassade - 1. Satz" "(Façade - 1st Movement)" - 09:16
#"Der Morgen danach" "(The Morning After)" - 04:17
#"Senses" - 06:03
#"Warum so tief?" "(Why So Deep?)" - 09:11
#"Fassade - 2. Satz" "(Façade - 2nd Movement)" - 05:34
#"Liebesspiel" "(Loveplay)" - 04:38
#"Stumme Worte" "(Silent Words)" - 05:57
#"Fassade - 3. Satz" "(Façade - 3rd Movement)" - 07:44