Initial, by Cortez

Initial

by Cortez

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Darknight Cortez have created an awesome piece of work here.Initial is so glorious to listen to,a real gem of an album. Favorite track: l.M.T.v..

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1.	Prompt 00:17	buy track
2.	Mine De Rien 04:54	buy track
3.	Néant 00:51	buy track
4.	L'Enjeu 10:20	buy track
5.	El Vetic 07:18	buy track
6.	Marasme 07:50	buy track
7.	l.M.T.v. 03:04	buy track
8.	b.M.T.v. 00:46	buy track
9.	Notice 03:46	buy track
10.	Patriarche 10:46	buy track

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Gregoire Quartier – drums
JR – vocal
Samuel Vaney – guitar

Cortez emerged from a telluric womb in Switzerland in 2001 as an unusual power-trio: drum, guitar, singer. They came searching for sounds, and charismatically crying a huge, dense and corrosive one themselves.
Astonishing the audience’s mind by its intense and incandescent charisma on stage, the resulting display is pure passion, melancholy, and fundamentally human – perhaps all too human – emotion.
Their raw ingredients include musical materials from post-hardcore, noise, and metal. However, they are not bound by conventional genres. They interpret, blend and reinterpret musical concepts to form their own unique sound.
Cortez has toured Europe and Russia with many great bands, including THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN, ISIS, UNSANE, JESU, GOJIRA, BURST, THE OCEAN, KEN MODE... Among others.
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released September 1, 2005

Recorded at Le Bûcher by Pascal Hirt. Mixed at La Fonderie by Pascal Hirt & Cortez April May 2005.
Mastered at RFI Mastering Seattle by Rick Fisher May 2005.
Photographies & knife-carved illustrations by Fabian Sbarro. All the symbols and writings by Benjamin Ith.

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Cortez Switzerland

CORTEZ present a masterful display of roiling metallic hardcore on their crushing new album 'No More Conqueror'.
This thing is a colossal sounding clash of sounds, with a massive production courtesy of Raphael Bovey (Zatokrev, Impure Wilhelmina, Convulsif). ... more

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