Montfaucon
From:
Uzbekistan
Last Known Status: Active
Latest Montfaucon News
Below is our complete Montfaucon news coverage, including columns and articles pertaining to the band. Some articles listed may be indirectly related, such as side projects of the band members, etc.
Montfaucon Releases New Playthrough Video
Montfaucon - the medieval inspired doom/death metal concept project from Uzbekistani duo Valentin Mayamsin and Michel Cadenzar - recently released six-track album, "Renaissance."
In the wake of this album release, Montfaucon has now revealed a brand new guitar and keyboard playthrough video for the track "Prisoner" - check it out below.
1. Prisoner
2. I Was A Warrior
3. Alone
4. Mastermind
5. Insanity
6. The Last Night More...
Montfaucon Posts Full Album Online
Tomorrow, Montfaucon - the medieval era-inspired doom/death metal concept project from Uzbekistani duo Valentin Mayamsin and Michel Cadenzar - will release new six-track album "Renaissance."
The album can be ordered via Bandcamp. In celebration of tomorrow's release, a full stream of "Renaissance" has come online and can be heard below.
Montfaucon's Valentin Mayamsin states: "These tracks on 'Renaissance' are restless ghosts of unreleased songs have been haunting us for many years. Now it's time to release them and turn a new page in the history of Montfaucon! We've been waiting to release this record for many years.
"It's been quite a journey, and we never thought the path would be so long and windy. We were able to overcome many barriers and are grateful for the support of friends and fans all over the globe. We put a lot of effort and thought into this piece of art. We hope you enjoy the album as much as we do!"
1. Prisoner
2. I Was A Warrior
3. Alone
4. Mastermind
5. Insanity
6. The Last Night More...
Column
Unearthing The Completely Unexpected Underground
The ascendancy of Nergal's new dark blues / country project Me And That Man got me thinking about all the utterly unexpected sounds that have come through my speakers in the years I've been writing here.
For every thrash rehash, modern metal copy and paste job, or a slew of utterly identical melodic post-hardcore emo bands, there's always some outfit hanging out just below the surface that no one has ever heard of - but is putting out awe-inspiring sounds.
Today we're going to focus on those groups that go way off the beaten path, offering a very different take on various sub-genres than what you'll hear from the average metal band. You aren't going to read about them on Rolling Stone, but these are the innovators pushing boundaries that deserve to thrive in the metal underground.
Zeal And Ardor
This one-man project creates something that is so incredibly obvious in hindsight but has barely been scratched by the scene as a whole: a collision of old African American spirituals with extreme metal. Reading that description for the first time, it seems like those two forces wouldn't be compatible, but just think about the connotations for a second.
Why did black metal arise in the Scandinavian scene in the first place, and why are the early days of the style so closely associated with church burnings? American slaves persecuted by Christianity have more in common with the pagans of European lore than you might think.
Imagine if those same slaves had access to guitars and decided to take their music in a more extreme direction. I'll let the project's Bandcamp description explain the rest:
Imagine this: Django sacrifices a goat on stage while intimidating slave chants roar and screeching guitar riffs burn in the background. Then the rhythmic chain rattling evoking a satanic summoning makes way for the eerily familiar melodies of Norwegian black metal.
Intrigued? While the album as a whole does have some down points and a lack of focus (a full review is coming), the tracks that stick to this collision of ideas are top-notch. Zeal & Ardor's "Devil Is Fine" is due to officially drop February 24th, 2017.
Montfaucon Streaming "The Last Night"
Montfaucon - the medieval era doom/death metal concept project from Uzbekestani duo Valentin Mayamsin and Michel Cadenzar - will release six-track album "Renaissance" on February 17th, 2017. Pre-orders are available via Bandcamp here.
In anticipation of the album's release, Montfaucon just revealed another new track, entitled "The Last Night." The track was inspired by The Hunchback of Notre-Dame and draws from black metal, progressive doom, and symphonic metal influences, accented by Michel's complex, haunting piano melodies.
Valentin states, "When I first heard Michel's piano playing many years ago -- back when we were both aviation students in a university in Tashkent, Uzbekistan -- I loved it because it was so dark and there was so much feeling to it. I realized I could put heavy guitar on top of it without much experimentation, without doing much to change the arrangement.
"'The Last Night' is one of our most lyrical and melodic songs. The lyrics are inspired by Victor Hugo's 'Notre-Dame de Paris' (The Hunchback of Notre-Dame). I was struck by the depiction of medieval execution by hanging and displaying the bodies as a warning to other people. Relatives were not allowed to bury their bodies according to Christian traditions. The story tells about a poor guy who risked his life to follow religious tradition, to save a soul of a hanged man." More...
Montfaucon Releasing "Renaissance" Album
It's official: we have now added a very first metal band to our database hailing from Uzbekistan!
Like the main gallows and gibbet in France for which it's named, two-man Uzbekistani doom/death metal project Montfaucon resonates with historic tales of violence and upheaval, exploring the implications and consequences of emotional turmoil, aggression and fear.
Drawing from elements of death metal, black metal, progressive doom, and symphonic metal, the band's debut full-length "Renaissance" is a musically diverse portrait of darkness, desperation, and barbarism that presents a new perspective on the ever-shifting landscape of extreme metal.
"Renaissance" will be released on February 17th, 2017 and features mixing and mastering from death metal veteran Dan Swanö (Edge of Sanity, Bloodbath, Katatonia). A new track from the album, entitled "Prisoner," can be heard below.
1. Prisoner
2. I Was A Warrior
3. Alone
4. Mastermind
5. Insanity
6. The Last Night More...