L'Ordure à l'état Pur explained

L'Ordure à l'état Pur
Type:	studio
Artist:	Peste Noire
Cover:	File:L_Ordure_A_L_Etat_Pur_(frontcover).webp
Released:	2011
Genre:	Avant-garde black metal^[1] folk black metal
Length:	60:23
Label:	La Mesnie Herlequin^[2]
Prev Title:	Ballade cuntre lo Anemi francor
Prev Year:	2009
Next Title:	Peste Noire
Next Year:	2013

L'Ordure à l'état Pur (French for The Pure Essence of Garbage) is the fourth full-length studio album by the French black metal band Peste Noire.^[3] It was released in 2013 on the Compact Disc format under bandleader Ludovic "Famine" Faure's own record label: La Mesnie Herlequin, which he established that same year.^[4]

Style

Although fundamentally a black metal record at its core, L'Ordure à l'état Pur exhibits prominent French folk music, avant-garde, and industrial elements mixed in with traces of ska punk, post-metal, and electronia.^{[5] [6] [7]} Moreover, the album features the playing of instruments that are seldom used in black metal music including the trombone, accordion, timpani, cello and épinette des Vosges.

In addition to the name of the album itself, its song titles and lyrics are entirely written/sung in the French language – maintaining a consistency with the band's other releases.^[8]

Personnel

Peste Noire

• DJ Famine (Ludovic Faure) – vocals, acoustic guitar, lead guitar, rhythm guitar, Epinette des Vosges, production
• Vicomte Chtedire de Kroumpadis – drums, percussion
• Audrey Sylvain – clean vocals

Session musicians

• Indria – bass guitar, fretless bass
  • L'Atrabilaire Maldo – Occitan preaches Seigneur Arawn – vocals
• Lulu l'ermite – backing vocals
• Miss Peste Nègre – accordion
• Rachid de France – trombone

Additional personnel

• Engwar – engineering, mixing, cello, timpani and backing vocals
• Mika Jussila – mastering
• Valnègre (Jean-Emmanuel Simoulin) – artwork and photography

Notes and References

1. Book: Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, Volume 11: Genres: Europe – David Horn – Google Books . 5 October 2017. Bloomsbury Publishing USA . 9781501326103 . 2022-12-11.
2. Web site: La Mesnie Herlequin – Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives. www.metal-archives.com.
3. Web site: L'Ordure à l'état Pur (English translation). 22 December 2013.
4. Web site: La Mesnie Herlequin – Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives. www.metal-archives.com.
5. Web site: Peste Noire – L'Ordure A l'Etat Pur. www.hornsup.fr.
6. Web site: Peste Noire – L'Ordure À L'État Pur. www.discogs.com.
7. Web site: L'Ordure à l'état Pur — Peste Noire. Last.fm.
8. Web site: My long and pretentious review of Peste Noire's 'L'Ordure à l'état Pur'. 26 July 2011.