History

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. Both of these were in a fairly traditional Norwegian black metal style, although with characteristic high-pitched screaming vocals. In 1995, the band released the album "Min Tid Skal Komme". This recording featured a progressive/psychedelic black metal style with atonal harmonics, folk music elements and female vocals by Norwegian pop singer Mariann Aas Hansen. With 1999's mini-album "Last-Minute Lies" the band moved even further away from their black metal origins. In 2000, Fleurety released their hitherto last effort "Department of Apocalyptic Affairs". This album featured an array of guest musicians from the Norwegian black metal scene, among them members from Ulver, Mayhem, Aura Noir, Arcturus, Beyond Dawn, and Ved Buens Ende. Reportedly, the band is still active, although to a very minimal extent. This is said to be because Alexander Nordgaren currently resides in India. Avant garde metal, sometimes called experimental, is a subgenre of heavy metal characterized by large amounts of experimentation and by non-standard sounds, instruments, and song structures. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... It has been suggested that Pakistani black metal be merged into this article or section. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Progressive rock (shortened to prog, or prog rock when differentiating from other progressive genres) is an ambitious, eclectic, and often grandiose style of rock music which arose in the late 1960s, reached the peak of its popularity in the early 1970s, and continues as a musical form to this day. ... Psychedelic music draws its inspiration from the experience of mind-altering drugs such as cannabis, psilocybin, mescaline, ecstasy and especially LSD. Characteristic features of the style include modal melodies, lengthy instrumental solos, esoteric lyrics and trippy special effects such as reversed, distorted, delayed and/or phased sounds. ... Atonality in a general sense describes music that departs from the system of tonal hierarchies that are said to characterized the sound of classical European music from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... In computer programming, an array, also known as a vector or list (for one-dimensional arrays) or a matrix (for two-dimensional arrays), is one of the simplest data structures. ... Jørn, Kris, and Tore Ulver (Norwegian for “Wolves”) is a musical ensemble from Norway started out making folk-inspired black metal and neo-classical folk music. ... The word mayhem can mean:- consisting of the act of maiming. ... Aura Noir is a black metal band from Oslo, Norway. ... Arcturus (α Boo / α Boötis / Alpha Boötis) is the brightest star in the constellation Boötes, and the third brightest star in the night sky, with a visual magnitude of −0. ... // History Ved Buens Ende is a Norwegian avant-garde metal band. ...

Discography

• Black Snow (Demo) - 1993
• A Darker Shade of Evil (EP) - 1994
• Min tid skal komme (Full length) - 1995
• Last-Minute Lies (EP) - 1999
• Department of Apocalyptic Affairs - 2000

A demo version or demo of a song is one recorded for reference rather than for release. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... This article is about the year 2000. ...

Line-up

• Svein Egil Hatlevik - Drums, Vocals, Synth (Zweizz, ex-Dødheimsgard)
• Alexander Nordgaren - Guitars