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Band: Element
Genre(s): Sci-Fi Technical Death Metal
Origin: USA (California)
Lyrical theme(s): Sci-Fi
Album: Aeons Past [2007]
Song: 09 - Within Singularity (instrumental)
Band: Element
Genre(s): Sci-Fi Technical Death Metal
Origin: USA (California)
Lyrical theme(s): Sci-Fi
Album: Aeons Past [2007]
Song: 09 - Within Singularity (instrumental)
![First Fragment - Archétype [ft. Mathieu Marcotte]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/m1r8m8-GyhA/mqdefault.jpg "First Fragment - Archétype [ft. Mathieu Marcotte]
Band: First Fragment [https://www.facebook.com/FirstFragmentOfficiel]
Genre(s): Technical Death Metal
Origin: Longueuil, Quebec
Lyrical theme(s): Metaphorical Themes, Abstract/Expressionistic Poetry, Ongoing Conceptual Saga
Album: Dasein [2016]
Song: 07 - Archétype
Music : Gabriel Brault-Pilon
Lyrics : David AB
Composed in summer 2011 (Outro composed in 2013)
Lyrics
Intro: Phil Tougas
Étant la racine de cette évoquante cime
En état de complète contemplation
Je ne pourrai vivre quéphémèrement
Condamné à la loi du plus résistant
Lextériorisation, imparfaite, inconsciente, intolérable
Lintériorisation, lharmonie en parcimonie
Seffondrant au couvert des mégalomanistes
Dun retournement sans merci, nous nous consumerons
Criant famine
Reclus dans la décroissance
Lexclusion de notre souche en territoire instable
De lespoir, nous dériverons dans nos torts
Du désespoir, nous ne ferons quen revenir plus forts
Je suis et je resterai lêtre de cette arborescence
De la descendance des gardiens jen ferai volte-face vers lultime réminiscence
Puis renié, dans cet infâme domaine, dispersé
Survivant de la mise à mort, substitué
Je suis lépidémie, fauchant la vie des profanateurs
Je suis la mort, survolant les limbes de lhorreur
Ma peau, ravagée, en lambeaux, arrachée
Mes entrailles, explosées
Dévoré et putréfié en toute impunité
Dune irréversible infection
Dune emprise sur mon métabolisme
Un habitat désolé, lemblème de ce guet-apens
Croulant sous lemprise de lhécatombe, mévadant
Je mabandonne, sur la piste de leuphorie
Je messouffle sur cette mince ligne en totale léthargie
Je rampe dans le sentier de langoisse
Je my noie dans labîme de lextase
Tel en phase, men extirpant quen impasse
Lennemi aux portes, je bondi
Assailli, je moleste et je blesse
Je tue et je déchiquette
Je trie et je reconstruis
Du grand art, une oeuvre de chair dêtres
Une oeuvre de remords pour dépêtre
Lapparat dun quidam, un éloge au miasme déchu
Lhabit quil me fallu pour redevenir lêtre que je fus
Solo 1 : Phil Tougas
Solo 2 : Mathieu Marcotte (Augury, Humanoid)
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Canadian neoclassical-influenced tech death unit, FIRST FRAGMENT, released their long-anticipated debut full-length, Dasein, on May 20th via Unique Leader Records.
Captured at Humanoise Studios with Mathieu Marcotte (Augury, Humanoid) and mixed by Hugues Deslauriers (Augury, Defilementory, Vengeful etc.), the eleven track long player features guest appearances from current and former members of Spawn Of Possession, Obscura, Inferi, Augury, and Elderoth, artwork by Sam Nelson (Incandescence, Wayfarer, Stoic Dissention) and boasts a fierce mix of over-the-top drum tirades, complex neoclassical-influenced guitar work, endless solos, Flamenco and clean guitar passages, proggy death metal bass work and a highly varied dual vocal approach.
FIRST FRAGMENT Recording Lineup:
Vincent Savary – bass
David AB – lead vocals
Troy Fullerton (Severed Savior) – drums
Phil Tougas – guitar, vocals, all solos
Gabriel Brault-Pilon – guitar
FIRST FRAGMENT Current Lineup:
Vincent Savary – bass
David AB – lead vocals
Samuel Santiago – drums
Phil Tougas – guitar, vocals, all solos
Gabriel Brault-Pilon – guitar
Guest Musicians:
Christian Muenzner (Spawn Of Possession, Alkaloid, ex-Necrophagist/Obscura)
Mathieu Marcotte (Augury, Humanoid)
Malcolm Pugh (Inferi, A Loathing Requiem, Diskreet)
Collin Mcgee (Elderoth)
Album concept & all lyrics by David AB
Artwork by Sam Nelson (www.facebook.com/SigmaArt)
Logo by Christophe Szpajdel (www.facebook.com/christophe.szpajdel)
Logo Touch-ups by Nino R. Mejia and Phil Tougas
Drums recorded and engineered by Zack Ohren (Castle Ultimate Productions) at Sharkbite Studios (Oakland, USA)
Vocal Recording by Pierre Tougas (Longueuil, Québec)
Album Mixing, Re-amping & Electric Guitar solos recording by Hugues Deslauriers @ The Lab (Montréal, Québec)
Bass, Rhythm / Classical / Clean guitars recording and album mastering by Mathieu Marcotte @ Humanoise Studios (Montréal, Québec)
Produced by Phil Tougas & First Fragment
All music originally composed between 2004-2010 except track 6-7")
![First Fragment - Dasein [2016] (Guitar Solos)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/p9zo6rOE8T8/mqdefault.jpg "First Fragment - Dasein [2016] (Guitar Solos)
Band: First Fragment [https://www.facebook.com/FirstFragmentOfficiel]
Genre(s): Technical Death Metal
Origin: Longueuil, Quebec
Lyrical theme(s): Metaphorical Themes, Abstract/Expressionistic Poetry, Ongoing Conceptual Saga
Album: Dasein [2016]
https://www.indiemerch.com/uniqueleader/band/first-fragment
https://uniqueleaderrecords.bandcamp.com/album/dasein
Recording line-up:
Vincent Savary – Bass
David AB – Lead Vocals
Troy Fullerton (Severed Savior) – Drums
Phil Tougas – Guitar, Vocals, solos
Gabriel Brault-Pilon - Guitar
Current line-up :
Vincent Savary – Bass
David AB – Lead Vocals
Samuel Santiago – Drums
Phil Tougas – Guitar, Vocals, solos
Gabriel Brault-Pilon - Guitar
Artwork by Sam Nelson
Logo by Christophe Szpajdel
Logo Touch-ups by Nino R. Mejia
Drums recorded and engineered by Zack Ohren (Castle Ultimate Productions) at Sharkbite Studios (Oakland, USA)
Vocal Recording by Pierre Tougas (Longueuil, Québec)
Album Mixing, Re-amping & Electric Guitar solos recording by Hugues Deslauriers Roarrr Sound Studio (Montréal, Québec)
Bass, Rhythm / Classical / Clean guitars recording and album mastering by Mathieu Marcotte @ Humanoise Studios (Montréal, Québec)
Recorded between August 2013 – February 2015
Album concept and lyrics by David AB
Tracks 1, 3, 6, 8 by Philippe Tougas
Tracks 2, 5, 7, 9 by Gabriel Brault-Pilon
Tracks 4, 10-11 by Philippe Tougas & Gabriel Brault-Pilon
All tracks composed between 2004-2010 except 6-7
Bass arrangements by Vincent Savary
Drum arrangements by Troy Fullerton
Intro for track 9 & 11 by Mathieu Marcotte
Intro for track 7 by Phil Tougas
Produced by Phil Tougas & First Fragment")
