Folkfuck Folie

Folkfuck folie is the second album by French black metal band Peste Noire. This album features the first four tracks of the Lorraine rehearsal EP re-recorded, re-interpreted and re-worked.

It follows a similar course as their previous full-length, La Sanie des siècles - Panégyrique de la dégénérescence, with raw black metal and occasional acoustic guitar breaks, but is a bit more straightforward, leaning toward much dirtier and thick guitar riffs and tones.

This album whose lyrics sometimes seem on the verge of autobiography mainly deals with apocalyptic themes, the final triumph of the body over the torments of the mind, primal barbarity, wartime poetry, the spreading of sexually transmitted diseases, or mental disorder which is symbolized by the radio sample of the demented poet Antonin Artaud used as an introduction to the track « Folkfuck folie ». Half of the lyrics were written by Famine and he took the other half from various French authors mainly from the medieval period such as Guillaume de Machaut or Gautier de Coincy to illustrate the parallel between medieval and modern apocalypse he started to evoke with La Sanie des siècles - Panégyrique de la dégénérescence's lyrics.

This second album described as « Folklore d’égout » (« Folklore from the sewers ») by Famine explores even more filthy and twisted realms than ever before and Famine ironically says that his goal was « to create the ugliest and most irritating sound possible, in order make the album unlistenable after having heard two songs. You have to be mentally unstable to go through the entire album » he added. Folkfuck Folie almost sounds indeed like a mad musical alchemy where two different records would be crammed together creating some unholy sonic beast, poppy but bleak and brutal and demented, an unnatural blackened freakshow of sound, but always as esthetic and poetic as it is fucked up. Folkfuck Folie shows a Peste Noire which is still imbued with a strange pop sensibility wrapped in a damaged production. Famine's guitarwork is still very varied, from clean and clear, to muddy and murky, often at the same time, and always in the same song. It sometimes spins into crystalline melodies, delicate and sparkling, other times dense downtuned buzz, occasionally weird and angular and mathy.

The album features no copyrights on the album's casing or liner notes.

A limited vinyl version co-produced by Northern Heritage and De profundis éditions was released in April 2010. It includes a long 2007 interview answered by Famine.

All the songs, lyrics and solos on Folkfuck folie were written by La sale Famine de Valfunde, except « La Césarienne »'s music written by Neige on a poem by Famine. Neige « never once played a single guitar riff except those on « La Césarienne », which was the only song he ever wrote for PN and will ever have written » Famine stated. By the way, in the studio sessions, Neige only played the second guitar on this track and he doesn't play any other guitar part on Folkfuck Folie. Famine, who wrote all the other tracks on Folkfuck Folie, remains the mastermind and exclusive composer behind Peste Noire.

All artwork and concept imagined by La sale Famine de Valfunde.