Sombre Arcane

• Groupe : Defaillance
• Album : Contemplation Misanthropique De L´humanite
• Genre : Black Metal
  
• Year : 2008
• Origin : France
• Label : Ewiges Eis Records
• Note : 6.5/20

I will not waste your time or mood, dear reader, by kicking off this review with a lot of descriptions and details. Honestly, I want to do this and I gave the French horde Defaillance a chance. Really, I did. But, I can’t offer expensive clothes to poor people. First and foremost, I was so fucking happy. The artwork is amazing; about as meditative as anything I've seen in a long time. Suddenly, my initial joy was quickly disappeared when I listened to the tracks. For the most part what we have here is lumbering Lycanthropy's Spell-style riffing, something like Misanthropic visions in monotonous motion, then artificially sped up again; there's still a clearly primitive, pretty enjoyable sometimes but 3 tracks, 30 minutes and always the same diner! Shitting Christ, it makes me sick to my stomach! The only strong aspect of this record is vocals, because despite the slight boredom in style the French guy passionately delivered without fail. Vile hacking twists into distorted croons and even the grating tone of some ambient effects enter the equation…they want really to help…but sadly, they can’t treat the deceased patient.

Hopefully, song titles like "Contemplation", "Misanthropique" and “De L’humanité” are all the evidence we need that there's still a real need to take this band seriously on a thematic level. Piece by piece, Defaillance's architecture helps create a perfect foundation for the misanthropic philosophy to start harming you mind from.

All In All, Contemplation Misanthropique De L´humanite achieves one goal: it gives you the opportunity to enjoy a stomach-ache after a bad diner. It is terrible. It is just terrible. Oh my God! I need a doctor!!!!

WebSite: http://idealist-media.com/defaillance/