Elend

Founded in 1993 by composers and multi-instrumentalists Iskandar Hasnawi (France) and Renaud Tschirner (Austria), joined by keyboard player, programmer and engineer Sébastien Roland in 1997, ELEND have gathered around them various musicians in the course of their existence: violinist David Kempf (2000-present), the sopranos Eve-Gabrielle Siskind (1994-1995), Nathalie Barbary (1995-2003), Esteri Rémond (2003-present) and Laura Angelmayer (2005-present). The completion of the "Officium Tenebrarum" (or "Office des Ténèbres", 1993-1998), ELEND's highly acclaimed, very dark and violent trilogy, was followed by a hiatus of several years, where the composers turned to other, non-public musical projects. ELEND resurfaced with Winds Devouring Men in 2003, the first part of a new sequence of albums. This work saw them take a quieter turn, soft and delicate strings were organically intertwined with exotic tones and harsh metallic textures and sounds inspired by French musique concrète. On their next album, the furious and dark Sunwar the Dead (2004), the compo...more edit info

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	Album (Click for Review)	Avg Rating	Your Rating
	A World in Their Screams    05/22/2007	4.3 2 Votes	Rate It Awful Very Poor Poor Average Good Great Excellent Superb Classic
	Les Tenebres du Dehors    1998	4.2 3 Votes	Rate It Awful Very Poor Poor Average Good Great Excellent Superb Classic
	The Umbersun    1998	3.7 5 Votes	Rate It Awful Very Poor Poor Average Good Great Excellent Superb Classic
	Weeping Nights    1997	4 1 Votes	Rate It Awful Very Poor Poor Average Good Great Excellent Superb Classic
	Lecons de Tenebres    1994	4 2 Votes	Rate It Awful Very Poor Poor Average Good Great Excellent Superb Classic

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