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Janvier

by Janvier

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    Remastered exclusively for this version, with alternate cover art. Reverse printed cardboard jacket, white 12inch vinyl, printed innersleeve with lyrics

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- Instrumental -
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Errant sous un ciel noir de glace Traversant forêts et crevasses Voyant la tempête lui faire face Effaçant chacune de ses traces Ailleurs au fond des cavernes Des ombres affamées hibernent Une soif sordide les malmène Et son emprise les gouverne Perdu et maintenant sans repères Envahi d’une sombre misère L’envie de maudire cet hiver Les échos propagent sa colère Quittant l’abri de murs ternes Poussées par leurs pulsions malsaines Elles devinent sous une lune pleine Une silhouette et sa pâle lanterne Qui trace son propre piège D’une démarche lancinante Des pas dans la neige À travers la tourmente
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Neige tombée Terre ruinée Espoir brisé Rôdant au pied de la terreur Dévasté par l’immense douleur Gonflant l’ampleur de la tumeur Chaque flocon lui nourrissant la peur Étourdi Engourdi Enseveli La poursuite d’une lourde présence L’amenant tout droit vers la potence Froide âme le plongeant d’une transe Abreuvant l’ardeur de leur démence Forgée dans les profonds abîmes Leur rage s’élève au-dessus des cimes La force du blizzard les anime Déchaîne une fureur sublime Étourdi Engourdi Enseveli
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Son coeur battant le tambour Craquant la rivière gelée Et de son souffle éraillé Assourdissant l’aube du jour Sinistre paysage désolé Portrait d’un esprit déraillé Apercevant le reflet des ombres Sous le couvert de la poudrerie En proie à de grotesques diableries Teintées d’une aura de malveillance Claustré par leur omniprésence Piégé à la surface de sa tombe Vent glacial qui transperce la chair Chaque bourrasque lacérant sa peau Qui s’effrite et s’envole en lambeaux Des flocons dans une danse céleste Remplissant le sablier funeste Apogée d’un affligeant calvaire Les cieux s’ouvrent et crachent leur poison Ultimes rafales chantant l’oraison Ignobles spectres ornant la saison De son sang glacé, la neige s’imprègne Un dernier frisson avant qu’il s’éteigne Et finisse éclot, parmi leur règne

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"Releasing an album in the dead of winter and naming your band after one of the winter months are two small ways to give listeners an inkling of what to expect, but Janvier doesn’t stop with just titles and imagery. Indeed, their four track debut embodies the whipping winds and cold, snow-clad landscapes of the northern winters."
– The Metal Observer

"Initially, from opener ‘Des Pas Dans La Neige’, we get bitterly cold, biting winter black metal. Winds howl, snow crunches and a harsh, ponderous riff crawls through the bleak night. There is a deep Burzum feel here from the tempo to the sharp buzzing riffs, but also maybe a good streak of Darkthrone in the rawness and the attitude and the excellent vocals and a little early Forteresse in the atmosphere. It’s good, doomy stuff, with a good vision and its own personality crawling in the darkness. The remainder of the EP is split into three parts of ‘A Travers La Tourmente’. It’s only really in the third part where the tempo picks up, really, flinging a wild and thrashy edge into the mid, underlying the rawness in Janvier."
– Ave Noctum

"Janvier deserve to start being mentioned with the likes of Forteresse, Mort aux Gueux, Some Happy Thoughts, and Délétère. Métal Noir Québécois is a genre of black metal set apart from the others, a force of nature in its own right. Janvier delivers some heavy, deathly cold blows of its own that only strengthen the genre."
– Resounding Footsteps

"This self-titled album is a suitably wintry and bleak introduction to a new band named after one of the coldest months in the Canadian year. Let's hope the future for Janvier the band is as bright as the album is deathly cold and shivery in atmosphere and gloomy in outlook and presentation. The opening track especially sets the scene with a glacial, depressed pace and downbeat mood, swirling winds in the background and monotonously grinding guitar drones and hardened riffs. The guitar sounds seem extra-grim and unyielding and the drumming is drained of all life. Proceedings perk up a bit in succeeding tracks with a hard crabby vocal that might have been spawned out of those frosty blowing winds but the deep melancholy persists."
– NausikaDalazBlindaz, The Metal Archives

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credits

released February 15, 2017

Taciturne: All instruments
Kanibaal: Vocals

All music and lyrics by Janvier
Mixed and mastered by Jean-Philippe Matte
Cover art by © Dirk Wustenhagen / Trevillion Images

Design, layout and pictures for the digipak by Wolfspell Records

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Janvier Montreal, Québec

Raw lo-fi Atmospheric Black Metal from Quebec, Canada.

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