Celeste's 2006 EP, re-released by Denovali along with a slew of other back-catalogue titles, comes hurtling from the speakers sounding like a 33rpm album played at 45, a crazy barrage of heavy guitars and frenetic percussion. 'Afin de Tromper Enmnui' is all over in a minute and fifty three and is dizzying, bone-shaking in its power.
It paves the way for the mega-heavy 'Diluons Nos Souvenirs D'enfance', which combines soaring post-rock lead guitars with full-on metal rhythm guitars and adds impenetrable screaming vocals to breathtaking effect. It sets the blueprint for the three remaining tracks, which run together to forge a megalithic barrage of non-stop sonic mayhem.
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'De Notre Aversion A Notre Perversion' is relentlessly heavy, dense and conveys such an intense anger and force that it hurts, while featuring a truly beautifully emotive yet tense instrumental mid-section. On the one hand it's utterly schizophrenic: on the other, it works incredibly well, and also pretty much encapsulates the spirit of the EP as a whole.
Absolutely stunning.
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