Leçons de Ténèbres (album)
Encyclopedia
Leçons de Ténèbres is the debut album of the neoclassical
band Elend. It was the first in the Officium Tenebrarum trilogy.
The lyrics to four songs (Chanting, Into Bottomless Perdition, Lucifer and The Emperor) are texts adapted from John Milton's
Paradise Lost
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Neoclassical (Dark Wave)
Neoclassical Dark Wave refers to a music genre within the Dark Wave movement. It is characterized by the use of ethereal atmosphere and angelic female voices but also adds strong influences from classical music. Neoclassical Dark Wave is distinct from the academic art music form known as...
band Elend. It was the first in the Officium Tenebrarum trilogy.
The lyrics to four songs (Chanting, Into Bottomless Perdition, Lucifer and The Emperor) are texts adapted from John Milton's
John Milton
John Milton was an English poet, polemicist, a scholarly man of letters, and a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under Oliver Cromwell...
Paradise Lost
Paradise Lost
Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton. It was originally published in 1667 in ten books, with a total of over ten thousand individual lines of verse...
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Track listing
- "Leçon de Ténèbres" — (3:31)
- "Chanting" — (6:22)
- "Into Bottomless Perdition" — (7:07)
- "Deploration" — (5:41)
- "Infernal Beauty" — (5:13)
- "Lucifer" — (10:05)
- "Eclipse" — (8:10)
- "The Reign of Chaos and Old Night" — (5:00)
- "The Emperor" — (5:29)