Saturday, 7 February 2026

Moëvöt – "Ézlèyfbdrèhtr Vèpréub Zuèrkl Mazagvatre Èrbsèdréa" (Self-released – PROFANATION 003)1994


Well blow me down with a Dark ambient feather!? Another one-man ambient Metal band from From down dare in South West France. Bergerac, Aquitaine, to be more precise, where a lot of the groundwork for the  Hundred Years War was lain, which raged on and off for about 115 years. Helena of Aquitaine caused a lot of the Bovver,her and her TWO(?) Husbands, Louis the VII of what would be France, and Henry II of England......a bit of a goer was our Helena.She was the Elon Musk of her day, eye-wateringly Rich,dropping kids left right and center and owned half of Europe. The English grabbed most of France in the 14th century,thanks to Henry V and Edward the Black Prince.....who incidentally, was a massive Black Metal Fan!?
The story does have some similarites to that of Meyhem i guess,except Edward died a very unknightly death, with rampant Disentery.....he shat and puked himself to Death,as did his cousin Henry V!?
I suppose its a bit like the ending of War Of The Worlds? The French were getting a battering,the invaders torched Joan of Arc, but the Frogs had probably the first biological weapon.....Dysentery.
Not sure if the Black Prince would dig this ambient metal stuff but it does sound like a rejected soundtrack for the next 'Omen' movie.It does, however, have something rather medieval about it,if not the stuff of Witchcraft.Looking at Moëvöt himself,i fear that in the mid-14th century I doubt he would have survived the Witchfynder General in one piece? 
"As the flames rose to his roman nose and his Walkman started to melt"
(Morrisey,1431-eyewitness to Moëvöt's burning as a Witch)

There are some places in the modern world....can I say "Modern?"...that a goth would still be in danger of being burnt as a witch. The United States being one of them.They would see his black face make-up and call out the Klan's Moral police,then lynch him as a Black insurrectionist from the Radical Left, hell bent on torching a few MAGA evangelist churches ,just like those demon-crats in Norway did. 

Tracklist:

A1 Der Glockenturm (I) 1:36
A2 Réflexion - Abjuration 1:44
A3 Uatr Mazagvatre Erbsèdréa 11:39
A4 Fin De Nuit 1:58
A5 Tagesanbruch 2:55
A6 Larmes Crépusculaires 2:01
A7 Die Dämmerung 3:31
A8 Uatr Vazsagraehbbe 3:39
A9 Brumes 2:08
A10 Nie 0:39
A11 Der Glockenturm (II) 1:46

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