Taken from "Le Déclin", out next October 25th via Ardua Music/Weird Truth as CD/2LP/Tape
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Born in the fall of 2000 in Rouen, ATARAXIE take their main inspiration from the early 90s doom/death metal scene and slowest 80s/90s death metal bands. Thus, their genre mainly includes old school death metal parts and classic doom metal ones slowed down in the most extreme way but also various influences from the bleakest metal genres. Their music plays a lot with contrasts in general: ultra slow crushing parts alternate with furious blast beats, mournful parts with more epic ones, and vocals also varies from really deep grunts to tormented screams.
Their new album "Le Déclin" pushes the themes that were already present on its predecessor "Résignés" with a focus on subjects like manipulation and obfuscation of the Masses, the cult of selfishness, dehumanization towards a parasiting virtual life, global warming insolubility, and reflects the unique musical style of ATARAXIE.
Jonathan on "Vomisseur de Vide": _" It is the first new track composed after ‘Résignés’ so back in March 2020 during the first Covid 19 lockdown in France. I composed all the riffs of this song when it was one of the only possible activities at home to keep one’s sanity. So I quickly shared the ideas with Julien and Hugo and that’s how the song was almost done until we finalized all arrangements in 2022 with the rest of the band."_
_"Lyrics are about all false prophets who sadly became particularly famous during this pandemic period but also during the entire history of mankind. From false scientists who lost their minds to embrace a morbid fame to many political/religious leaders promoting chaos or terror just to be just a name to remember."_
_"Vomisseurs de Vide lyrics are about all these filthy and scornful scumbags vomiting their ignorance and their lowness to the black masses via remorsless media."_
LYRICS
The void rules here below
Continuously feeding the black mass
No time to learn, no time to think
That’s how they spread wickedness
Fooling the perception of reality
No time to digest, no time to elaborate
Quelle tristesse de contempler le règne absolu de la médiocrité
Scélérats et saltimbanques sont adulés ici comme des rois
Quelle pauvre humanité, chaque jour toujours plus décadente
Portant au plus profond de son cœur le culte de la bêtise crasse
See them defend falsehood by clinging to their beliefs
Their will is to erase culture by promoting idiocy
Watch them mix craftily lies and truth to feign consistency
Yet, remember that clothes do not make the man
Toujours plus bas
Au plus proche de l’abîme
Toujours plus rance
Vomisseurs de vide
See them distort the truth by sticking to their guns
Their will is to wreck progress by promoting absurdity
Watch them manipulate and corrupt to feign harmony
Yet, remember that clothes do not make the man
Toujours plus bas
Au plus proche de l’abîme
Toujours plus rance
Vomisseurs de vide
Let chaos come to them, let the vengeful flames decimate
Watch them struggle, enjoy their unavoidable doom
Selfish and arrogant, pride cometh before their fall
Be the director of their extinction, be truly helpful here below!
Push the survivors into the pit, relish their moaning and ordeal
Invite their relatives to contemplate, transform this into an exhibition
Place them in the front row seats, give them a nibble to gnaw
Make an example of them, capture the grandeur of their end
Moqué, bousculé et humilié, c’est ainsi que doit être traité l’imposteur
Exilé, isolé et sali, tel est le sort réservé au manipulateur
Suspendu à une corde, telle est la destinée de l’affabulateur
Au milieu de la fausse sceptique, reposera l’infecte dépouille du délateur
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Ataraxie is:
Frédéric Patte-Brasseur - Guitar
Hugo Gaspar - Guitar
Jonathan Théry - Bass / Vocals
Julien Payan - Guitar
Pierre Sénécal - Drums
Booking/interviews: ataraxie.management@hotmail.fr
All music on “Le Déclin” composed and arranged by Ataraxie
All lyrics written by Jonathan
*All drums recorded at Studio De La Harpe in October 2023 by Benjamin Leclere
*All guitar/bass takes recorded at Ultradoom & Vault92 studios from November to December 2023 by Fred & Jonathan & Julien and reamped later in December at Studio De La Harpe by Benjamin Leclere & Sylvain Biguet
*All vocals takes recorded at Postghost studio in December by Julien Bous
*Mixed between January and March 2024 by Sylvain Biguet
*Mastering performed in April 2024 by Collin Jordan at The Boiler Room.
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