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 "The Great Maddening" - CD |
 "Imperium Grotesque" - CD |
CHRONICLESOFCHAOS.COM Le Grand Guignol are named for
a French theatre style popular in the early half of last century,
depicting horrible and gory acts where the evildoers remain
unpunished -- in other words, more like the real world than
Hollywood's morally ordered universe. The theatrical origins
tie in nicely with their dramatic, grotesque and carnival atmosphere,
one that conjures up Victorian era "freak shows",
not the self-made freaks of the Jim Rose circus, where the boundaries
of sanity are tested, both by the grotesque sights revealed
and the hallucinogenic properties of absinthe. It's definitely
a new approach to the vastly over-subscribed "symphonic
melodic black metal" market. Some of the riffs could have
originated from a Falkenbach recording session -- several members
are session musicians for the renowned Viking metal project
-- but their vision remains a uniquely demented creation all
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