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NUIT NOIRE   Furibond Elegance   7" VINYL   (Creations Of The Night)    6.98

Furibond Elegance IS CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE FOR ORDER

More 'faerical blasting punk' from the woodlands of France! Here's another somewhat rare 7" find that I dug up when I went hunting for everything that the cult French band Nuit Noire still had in print, a 2005 Ep that features five songs of their cavernous low-fi punk. I've been getting really obsessed with this band's music lately, as it has that primitive, death rock influenced sound that I've turned into a total junkie for, but mixes it in with some aggressive black metal elements and delivers it in a naive, childlike manner (with lots of references to forests and nighttime and waking dreams) that sounds like nothing else. Imagine a cross between Rudimentary Peni, Christian Death and some of that sloppy Les Legions Noires style black metal and you'll have an idea of what Nuit Noire sounds like.

On the Furibond Elegance 7", the band brings us the frantic blackened blastpunk of opener "Shooting Stars", with cavernous three chord riffs and thrashy drumming that can't help but trip over itself throughout the song, blasting off into super fast blast metal chaos for a moment before dropping back into a killer catchy hook at the end. That's followed by the title track, which combines more haunting, wistful melodies with rumbling double bass drumming and an air of nocturnal majesty amid the explosions of chaotic blastbeats and maniacal screaming.

Both of the songs that appear on the second side of this 7" are among Nuit Noire's catchiest; the first, "Moon", is a blasting blackened lunar anthem sounds like Rudimentary Peni gone pop-punk, and it's clawed its way into my head for at least the next day or so. The other is "Mystery II", an almost non-stop blastbeat driven delirium of strained howls and infectious reverb drenched punk riffs, thunderous double bass and gorgeous hooks that wouldn't have been out of place on a mid-80s post-punk single...

Comes in a xeroxed sleeve held inside of a white DJ-style jacket with the band name and title hand-written in black magic marker.