SORTILÈGE
– Larmes De Heros (NEW*FRA HEAVY METAL CLASSIC*CD EDITION)
The stellar 1986 classic finally reissued! French Heavy Metal at its
best.
RELICS FROM THE CRYPT 2023 - the
sub-label of DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS dedicated to keeping the past alive, is
proud to present a long-overdue reissue of the classic second album of France’s
SORTILÈGE, Larmes de héros.
A cult fixture in the ‘80s French heavy metal scene that retroactively
grew in legendry, SORTILÈGE defined a unique national style that had equal
footing in the NWOBHM, contemporaneous hard rock, and nascent epic metal.
Formed in 1981 and releasing a demo and EP over the new two years, it was
SORTILÈGE’s 1984 debut album,
Métamorphose – also concurrently released in an English-language version
as Metamorphosis – that truly introduced the band to worldwide audiences with a
wild ‘n’ weird iteration of heavy metal. While that English version made their
unique style more palatable (helped in no small part by its release on
Steamhammer), it’s arguably the French-language version that defined the
SORTILÈGE sound. And so it went with its superior follow-up.
Again released in both French- and English-language versions,
SORTILÈGE’s second album is a tour de force of true-metal passion and
performance, mysticism and might. Blithely summarized as French romantic twist
on Judas Priest’s transition from the ‘70s to the ‘80s – or, rather, spanning
Sin After Sin to Defenders of the Faith – the original Larmes de héros was
released in that golden year of 1986, harkening to a fantastical place far, far
away where hot rockers bloomed into heroic-yet-tragic epics. The English
version of Hero’s Tears plainly spells out the path ahead, but the dramatic
(and oft-melancholic) vocals of Christian Augustin in his native language truly
chill/sizzle the soul: a veritable French Metal God. Not to be outdone, his
bandmates create a canvas at once anthemic and narrative; pacing is crucial
across Larmes de héros, as more direct power-surges flank the album’s utterly
immersive epic songs. And at nine songs across 46 minutes, you feel like you’ve
undertaken a hero’s journey – but one not without a monumental amount of
headbanging.
Tragically and too fittingly, Larmes de héros would be SORTILÈGE’s final
studio album. A number of re-formations would happen over the next couple
decades and then fizzle out, but the true SORTILÈGE died with Larmes de héros.
Wipe away those hero’s tears, though, for RELICS FROM THE CRYPT at long last
resurrects this stone-cold classic for posterity!
1 La Hargne Des Tordus 4:45
2 Chasse Le Dragon 4:47
3 Le Dernier Des Travaux D'Hercule 3:46
4 Quand
Un Aveugle Rêve 6:37
5 Mourir
Pour Une Princesse 5:02
6 La
Montagne Qui Saigne 5:15
7 Marchand
D'Hommes 6:46
8 Messager 4:27
9 La
Huitième Couleur De L'Arc-En-Ciel 4:22
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