Fleurety

Infobox Musical artist
Name = Fleurety


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Origin = Ytre Enebakk, Norway
Genre = Avant-garde metal
Black metal
Years_active = 1991–present
Label = Aesthetic Death
Misanthropy
Supernal Music
Associated_acts = Aphrodisiac
Dødheimsgard
Umoral
Zweizz
ThanatoSchizO
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Current_members = Alexander Nordgaren
Svein Egil Hatlevik
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Fleurety is a Norwegian avant-garde metal band. The band was formed in 1991 by Svein Egil Hatlevik and Alexander Nordgaren.

The band released their first demo "Black Snow" in 1993. After that came the 7" EP "A Darker Shade of Evil" in 1994, released via the English label Aesthetic Death Records. Both of these were in a fairly traditional Norwegian black metal style, although with very high-pitched screaming vocals, giving the band a characteristic sound.

In 1995, the band released the album "Min Tid Skal Komme", as a cooperation between Aesthetic Death Records and Misanthropy Records. This recording featured a progressive/psychedelic black metal style with atonal harmonics, folk music elements, and female vocals by Norwegian pop singer Marian Aas Hansen.

With 1999's mini-album "Last-Minute Lies", the band moved even further away from their black metal origins. This recording and the following album was released by Supernal Music.

In 2000, Fleurety released their hitherto last effort "Department of Apocalyptic Affairs". This album showed an even more eclectic musical style, spanning metal, jazz and electronica, and featured an array of guest musicians from the intersection of the Norwegian black and avant garde metal scenes; among them Kristoffer Rygg and Tore Ylwizaker from Ulver, Hellhammer and Maniac from Mayhem, Carl-Michael Eide from Aura Noir and Ved Buens Ende, Steinar Sverd Johnsen from Arcturus, and Einar Sjursø from Beyond Dawn. [cite web |url=http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:jbfqxqyhldje~T1 |title=allmusic ((( Fleurety > Biography ))) |accessdate=2008-06-12 |accessmonthday= |accessdaymonth= |accessyear= |author=York, William |last= |first= |authorlink= |coauthors= |date= |year= |month= |format= |work= |publisher=Allmusic |pages= |language= |doi= |archiveurl= |archivedate= |quote= ]

The "Min tid skal komme" album was reissued by Candlelight Records in 2003, featuring the "A Darker Shade of Evil" recording and a track recorded for the 1995 "Blackend" compilation album, entitled "Absence".

According to blog posts on the band's MySpace page, Fleurety is working on a 7" vinyl ep, which will feature remakings of vintage material: the songs "Descent into Darkness", from the 1993 demo "Black Snow", and "Absence". "Descent into Darkness" includes Hellhammer and Necrobutcher of Mayhem and Runhild Gammelsæter as guest musicians.

Discography

Studio albums

* "Min Tid Skal Komme" (1995)
* "Department of Apocalyptic Affairs" (2000)

EPs

* "A Darker Shade of Evil" (1994)
* "Last-Minute Lies" (1999)

Demos

* "Black Snow" (1993)

Members

Current members

*Svein Egil Hatlevik – drums, synthesizer, vocals
*Alexander Nordgaren – bass, guitar, vocals

References

External links

*myspace|fleurety
* [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:3or9283t05oa~T00 Fleurety] at Allmusic
*musicbrainz artist|id=540fe555-251f-4567-a5ab-f0d05cfbabdb|name=Fleurety
*discogs artist|artist=Fleurety|name=Fleurety
* [http://www.avantgarde-metal.com/content/stories2.php?id=24 Avant-garde Metal - Stories: Fleurety - Far Away From Any Messianic Complex]