In Harmonia Universali

Infobox Album | Name = In Harmonia Universali
Type = Album
Artist = Solefald


Released = March 24, 2003
Recorded = April-July 2002
Genre = Avant-garde metal
Black metal
Length = 60:18
Label = Century Media
Producer = Börge Finstad and Solefald
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:3aqpg4eztv6z link]
*Blabbermouth.net Rating-10|7.5 [http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/showreview.aspx?reviewID=125 link] |Last album = "Pills Against The Ageless Ills"
(2001)
This album = "In Harmonia Universali"
(2003)
Next album = ""
(2005)
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"In Harmonia Universali" is the fourth full-length album by Norwegian avant-garde metal band Solefald, and their last under the Century Media label. It was released on March 24, 2003. The album featured lyrics sung in four languages, English, Norwegian, French, and German.

At the time, this can be considered the band's darkest and most ambitious work. Scathing black metal is interspersed with free-range jazz pieces and electronic dissonance. Clean singing and gravel-voiced narration work roam free amongst the combination of grinding guitars with Hammond organ and piano interludes, with occasional saxophone lines appearing from time to time to keep the experimental element Solefald is known for intact.

Cornelius (the band's chief lyricist) had stated on the band website that much of the lyrics have a touch of Satanic undertones, and that it wasn't a coincidence; he believes that part of the formation of what metal is today is due to evil and the rhetorical figure of Satan, who in turn is praised on the song "Red Music Diabolos", claiming "our crazy music has to come from somewhere.".

Concept

"Ten songs, ten wheels of time"
"To be buried in the body,"
"Grave to the mind -"
"Chained to an infinite universe"
"Where night is the rule"
"Ten songs, tell pills"
"To make the known look unknown"
"And the ancient feel new - "
"Pills against the ageless ills"
"Ten songs, ten rites"
"To purify the spirit - "
"Demons talking hard"
"And demons talk soft:"

"First, Gebura, for justice"
"Second, Munin, for knowledge"
"Third, Munch, for creativity"
"Fourth, Epictetus, for virtue"
"Then Dionysos, for pleasure -"
"Sixth, Diabolos, for music"
"Seventh, the Virgin, for fertility"
"Eighth, the Prophet, for charity"
"Ninth, Odin, for protection"
"Last, for light, the sungod Apollon"

"Ten songs, ten stories of"
"Extreme music science -"
"Solefald proceed to play"

"In Harmonia Universali"

Track listing

#"Nutrisco Et Exinguo" – 7:11
#"Mont Blanc Providence Crow" – 5:16
#"Christiana (Edvard Munch Commemoration)" – 8:20
#"Epictetus & Irreversibility" – 5:58
#"Dionysify This Night Of Spring" – 8:12
#"Red Music Diabolos (Instrumental)" – 4:34
#"Buy My Sperm" – 4:35
#"Fraternité De La Grande Lumiére" – 5:12
#"The Liberation Of Destiny" – 6:28
#"Sonnenuntergang Im Weltraum" – 4:32

Credits

*Lazare (Borknagar, Age Of Silence, Ásmegin) - Apollonian harmonic sounds produced by the vocal folds and resonated by the cavities of head and throat. Instrument in which the sound and resources of the pipe organ are approximated by means of electronic services. Musical instrument having steel wire strings that sound when struck by felt-covered hammers operated from a keyboard. Percussion instruments consisting of hollow cylinders with drum heads stretched over one or both ends that are beaten with sticks.
*Cornelius (Sturmgeist) - Dionysian bardic sounds produced by the vocal folds and resonated by the cavities of head and throat. Flat-bodied electric instrument with a long fretted neck and six strings plucked with a pick. Flat-bodied acoustic instrument with a long fretted neck and six strings plucked with the fingers. Flat-bodied electric instrument with a long fretted neck and four strings plucked with a pick. Single sound items cut from larger sample space.

All lyrics and verse written by Cornelius.

ession musicians

*Saxophone on songs I, V & VIII: Kjetil Selvik
*Choir on songs III & V: Kristian Krüger, Kjetil Selvik and Sigurd Høye