L'Ordure à l'état Pur (French for The àléPure Essence of Garbage) is the fourth full-length studio album by the French black metal band Peste Noire. 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.

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. 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.

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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.

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Track listing

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

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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

References

Peste Noire albums

2011 albums