Acédia ends silence.
Formed in 2011 in Quebec, the band composed of Pascal Landry (vocals/guitar/bass, Cantique Lépreux), Marc-André Bérubé (guitar) and Cadavre (drums, Cantique Lépreux, Chasse-Galerie, Chaos Catharsis) announces the release of Fracture, their third album, on Les Acteurs de l’Ombre Productions.
The album starts with La Fosse, a first icy composition with soaring riffs which allows bass an important place. The sound progressively ignites, then raw screams finally appear as riffs transcribe a chaotic and aggressive madness while remaining quite dissonant, letting its melodies drive us to the strange Mont Obscur, a both intriguing and majestic track. The cries of despair drown in this impressive and unstable rhythmic which goes through fury while offering incisive melodies before giving way to Fracture, the eponymous track, which is much more straightforward. The powerful rhythmic basis still leaves room for those tortured vocal parts as well as soaring leads, but the track is short and it quickly ends before L’Art de Pourrir comes to choke us with its oppressive riffs. The track remains obviously aggressive and very raw, but some parts offer softer, even soothing tones in this furious and abrasive surge while strengthening more and more the scathing sounds which guides us to The Unknown, an as oppressive as disturbing composition. Vocals are massive, reinforcing the aggressiveness created with the frantic rhythmic filled with screaming leads, then energetic Old School patterns come to feed the track’s raw power. Black/Death elements are integrated into this furious rhythmic before it suddenly stops to drive us to Burn of Time, the last track of the album, which unveils an as suffocating as heavy sound mass while linking dissonant and polished leads with a solid rhythmic.
The absence of Acedia has allowed them to compose an album which is is as raw and dissonant as it is thoughtful and polished. Fracture will seem disorganized to the neophyte, but it takes all its sense after listening, when the musicians’ creative madness is fully expressed.
80/100
