[Lamesnieherlequin]

The new Peste Noire 2013 album, self-titled ‘Peste Noire’, is now available for pre-order on the band’s self-owned label La mesnie Herlequin.



There will be two versions of this, the 5th Peste Noire opus:





The super-deluxe version for the hard-working elite priced at 30 Euros.

= a DVD-sized DIGIBOOK with lyrics containing a 24-page booklet where each text is illustrated (some hand-drawn), plus an outer overlay embossed in hot gold. This is only a preview of the final design, which will be nothing short of superb.







The special ‘PS’ version (‘Social Parasite’) priced at 8 Euros.

= a CD in a black and white cardboard slipcase, with an alternative layout. The poor man's version of this new album.




Wholesales will be available to retailers AFTER all the pre-orders are shipped. Don’t bother asking!


Note for Americans: today 1 Euro = 1,282 US Dollars / 1 US Dollar = 0,7801 Euros.


The way things look at the moment, I'll receive the CDs from the pressing plant in about one month (May/mid-May 2013). The first pre-orders will be shipped around that time. Obviously they will be sent a good fortnight before the official CD release date.







To tantalise you (or not), here is a new PN interview, the first since 2009:


http://www.lamesnieherlequin.com/2013/04/interview-kpn-v-english-version/


In this interview, PN’s leader, yours truly, talks about the new self-titled album (including the new notorious guest vocalists, the new line-up, etc.), hits back about ‘L'Ordure à l'état Pur’, and delves more deeply in Peste Noire's concept. He also gets around to speaking about his label ‘La mesnie Herlequin’, his new life in the forest and, more generally, he speculates on the future.


Excerpts-


‘I played in ALCEST. In the beginning. I composed the best riff in ‘Tristesse Hivernale’, the searing riff of ‘La Forêt du Cristal’. But at the behest of Neige, ALCEST became an Eden of elegant and overly nice fairies, the pastoral dream of a tender hobbit’s brain. To put it bluntly, ALCEST became a fairytale country. So I had to carve out my own path...I took a shit in those cute flowery groves, sodomised the fairies, and put those elves to bed with a dose of rat poison to allow the song of the toads to flourish. Yes, I made PESTE NOIRE...because PESTE NOIRE was born only to fuck shit up. (Diary of PN)’



‘With ten years of hindsight, I’ll tell you what I make: Black grotesque. Not grotesque in the profane and insulting sense, but in the literary sense. (…) If the Black Metaller is crazy only about the world of ‘Medieval Sabbaths’, apocalypses and wizards, if he doesn’t search for anything more in BM than children’s stories and has secret dreams of entering into a Harry Potter world, then he can’t access the buffoonish, the crazy, the humorous, the sarcastic, or step back and take a critical view; in short he can’t access the adult world. He only values the fantasy themes which one finds in the series ‘Goosebumps’, or the epic genre of ‘The Lord of the Rings’. Everything else he classes as ‘not noble’.’



‘The history of music is what it is, but I think that ‘Gothic’ as a style of music usurped this lovely term, which should have been allotted to Black Metal. (…) Black Metal has more of a grimacing mouth like a gargoyle, as opposed to ‘Gothic’ music, with its well-groomed ponces made up as women who sing far too much in tune. (…) To call art ‘Gothic’ was a derogatory term, used to designate the barbaric and strange aspect of French art (or art from the Île-de-France), since Gothic art originated in France. A barbaric art, of FRENCH IDENTITY so...it couldn’t be more appropriate for PN.’



‘My last album is worth three times that which is happing in the current BM scene: instead of buying three turds at ten Euros each, buy a PN album at 30 Euros. Do you complain when a car salesman tells you that a Porsche costs more than a Renault Twingo?...Our dear Black Metallers, who speak ONLY of being elite, should open a dictionary at the word ‘elite’, and learn that in the history of mankind the elite rarely experienced a lifetime on social welfare, receiving free healthcare from the NHS. Because when you think about it, I pay so many taxes that when they buy one of my CDs, ultimately they are doing nothing more than giving me back some of the money that the State steals from me to pay them to do fuck all.’



Dear Mods, please delete that thread (I hope ‘snt’ will forgive me): (http://www.nwnprod.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=701960&highlight=peste+noire#701960) although I love being called a Jew, I admit.



In any case, feel free to ask whatever CONSTRUCTIVE questions here; if only these public exercises could spare me from answering hundreds of emails and wasting an awful, AWFUL lot of time...



To finish, some links:

LMH: http://www.lamesnieherlequin.com/

LMH's SHOP: http://www.la6mesnie6herlequin6.bigcartel.com

By the way, LMH’s NEW EMAIL ADDRESS is: contact@lamesnieherlequin.com
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[Eternal Soul]

Will probably preorder the digibook. Any updates on the PN vinyls, Famine?

[Blutkvlt]

The WoI guys guesting on this album is a welcome surprise.
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[Descension]

"Social Parasite version", hahaha fuck.

Can't wait to check this out.
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#NuclearWarMeow

[Valgrinder]

Noticed too that its useless to buy CD's just because theyre cheap, cause none ever listens them. So I could easily buy just one 30 euro CD and listen it regularly than buy 10 five euro CD that I NEVER listen. Why to make big collection that is full of mediocore stuff, quality against quantity.

But still ordered that parasite -version cause hate A5/DVD- sized cases when they wont fit in my shelf.
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Mors fennico more

[Zone]

Did Neige teach you to how to sodomize the fairies?
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[Sacrilege]

WoI members as guest vocalists, very interesting. I need to get this.

[DTBRex]

[Speerhead]

Fantastic interview.

[Algathonix]

Will buy when I get my welfare check.

[satanic ritual abuse]

Looks like the Intelligenzija approves this time. Hints of Négritude because we live in the Kali Yuga That's why the last Disiplin sounds like Dub, now I get it. Pagan Front Tribalism!
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Geißel des Fleisches - Bis aufs Blut gequält

[Hobophobic]

any samples yet?
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[rthdx]

Wonderful. Will wait for wholesale availability though and not interested in any samples in advance.
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http://rthdxfff.bandcamp.com
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http://youtube.com/rthdxfff

[Stalinorgel]

Farting at the table = lifestyle

Support!

[TS.]

Looking forward to this!