{"id":36663,"date":"2025-08-06T18:52:33","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T16:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artnroll.net\/home\/?p=36663"},"modified":"2025-08-06T23:19:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T21:19:50","slug":"unleashed-fire-upon-your-lands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artnroll.net\/home\/?p=36663","title":{"rendered":"Unleashed &#8211; Fire Upon Your Lands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Auteur :<\/strong> Unleashed<\/p>\n<p><strong>Titre :<\/strong> Fire Upon Your Lands<\/p>\n<p><strong>Label :<\/strong> Napalm Records<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sortie le :<\/strong> 15 ao\u00fbt 2025<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note :<\/strong> 17,5\/20<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Il y eu d\u2019abord eu le Big 4 du thrash US, puis le Big 4 du thrash allemand, et plus r\u00e9cemment le Gros 4 du metal fran\u00e7ais&#8230; Mais connaissiez-vous le Big 4 du death metal su\u00e9dois ? Celui-ci serait couramment form\u00e9 d\u2019Entombed, de Grave, de Dismember et d\u2019Unleashed\u2026 \u00ab Serait \u00bb, car \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9coute de <em>Fire Upon Your Lands<\/em>, le quinzi\u00e8me album de ces pionniers du genre (trente-six ans de carri\u00e8re) que sont Unleashed, on se dit que ces derniers navigueraient davantage d\u00e9sormais dans la cat\u00e9gorie dite \u00ab viking metal \u00bb plut\u00f4t que celle plus classiquement \u00ab death metal \u00bb\u2026 La jolie pochette de ce nouveau disque, orn\u00e9e en son milieu par Mj\u00f6lnir, le marteau de Thor, en atteste de prime abord\u2026 Un autre constat s\u2019impose assez rapidement : le nom d\u2019\u00ab Odin \u00bb appara\u00eet \u00e0 cinq reprises dans les textes de ces onze pistes commercialis\u00e9es par Napalm Records le 15 ao\u00fbt prochain, le nom de \u00ab Thor \u00bb \u00e0 sept, et celui du \u00ab Midgar \u00bb (\u00ab Mi\u00f0gar\u00f0r \u00bb) deux fois\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Au niveau des r\u00e9f\u00e9rences, l\u2019histoire des vikings est ind\u00e9niablement \u00e0 l\u2019honneur, tout particuli\u00e8rement leurs p\u00e9riples en eaux chaudes. \u00ab Hail the Varangians! \u00bb narre l\u2019\u00e9pop\u00e9e orientale des \u00ab Var\u00e8gues \u00bb ou \u00ab Varanges \u00bb (termes bizantins et slaves d\u00e9signant les vikings su\u00e9dois ayant fond\u00e9 l\u2019\u00c9tat de Kiev) : \u00ab We travel through the great Byzantine Empire and the new alliance \/ The Viking Varjagers, armies of the Atasharq and the Roman legions \/ Once again at Miklagard \/ By the gates of Miklagard \/ Hail the Varangians! \u00bb (le mot \u00ab l\u00e9gions romaines \u00bb d\u00e9signant ici, je suppose, celles de l\u2019Empire romain d\u2019Orient\u2026 Quant \u00e0 \u00ab Miklagard \u00bb, la \u00ab Grande cit\u00e9 \u00bb, il s\u2019agissait du nom donn\u00e9 \u00e0 la d\u00e9funte Constantinople). Les raids en m\u00e9diterran\u00e9e sont \u00e9galement \u00e9voqu\u00e9s dans la chanson \u00ab Midjardarhaf \u00bb (ou \u00ab Mi\u00f0jar\u00f0arhaf \u00bb : \u00ab la mer du milieu de la Terre \u00bb, celle \u00ab situ\u00e9e entre l\u2019Europe et l\u2019Afrique \u00bb) : \u00ab So, we reach the coast \/ And the Haifa Pier \/ Our warships await \/ To take us far from here Out into the unknown \u00bb. La \u00ab route vers la baie d\u2019Haifa \u00bb fait quant \u00e0 elle l\u2019objet d\u2019un r\u00e9cit entier (\u00ab The Road To Haifa Pier \u00bb). B\u00e9thel, enfin, est cit\u00e9e dans \u00ab Fire Upon Your Lands \u00bb\u2026 Les valeurs vikings ne sont pas en reste, avec \u00ab Loyal to the End \u00bb ou \u00ab Hold Your Hammers High! \u00bb\u2026 Le \u00ab Christ Blanc \u00bb, d\u00e9j\u00e0 rencontr\u00e9 dans <em>The Hunt Of White Christ<\/em> (leur album paru en 2018), ou plut\u00f4t le fils de celui-ci, fait son retour dans \u00ab Left For Dead \u00bb (\u00ab The son of White Christ \/ Oh, left for dead \/ But will his soul ascend \/ Into the heavens \/ As the prayers end \/ Will his soul ascend \u00bb) : \u00ab Christ Blanc \u00bb (\u00ab Huv&rsquo;takristr \u00bb) \u00e9tait, tout simplement le nom norrois donn\u00e9 \u00e0 J\u00e9sus Christ\u2026 Nul besoin d\u2019\u00e9crire tout un m\u00e9moire de DEA l\u00e0-dessus, l\u2019int\u00e9gralit\u00e9 de ces nouvelles compositions est irrigu\u00e9e par le sang des Berserkers et autres Valkiries, chers \u00e0 une large portion de la communaut\u00e9 metal\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Musicalement, <em>Fire Upon Your Lands <\/em>s\u2019apparente pareillement au genre viking metal. Nombre de morceaux sont cousins de ceux d\u2019Amon Amarth, mais en moins patauds et en plus v\u00e9loces dans le d\u00e9roul\u00e9. Les guitares de Tomas M\u00e5sgard et de Fredrik Folkare sont lumineuses et ac\u00e9r\u00e9es, parfois presque planantes (sur \u00ab A Toast To The Fallen \u00bb ou sur \u00ab The Road To Haifa Pier \u00bb), nous ne sommes pas en pr\u00e9sence de lourdes et caverneuses rythmiques death. Les riffs sont inspir\u00e9s et rentre-dedans. Les premi\u00e8res secondes de \u00ab War Comes Again \u00bb s\u2019apparenteraient \u00e0 une intro de black\u2026 un pilonnage bref et saccad\u00e9 soutenu par des accords plut\u00f4t crissants. Les parties de batterie (venons-y) seraient plus proches du heavy contemporain que du death technique : elles sont a\u00e9r\u00e9es, \u00e9pousent les narratifs, et ne sont aucunement port\u00e9es sur la d\u00e9monstration brutale sans temps mort\u2026 Quant \u00e0 la voix de Johnny Hedlund, le bassiste-chanteur, elle n\u2019est nullement m\u00e2chonn\u00e9e ou \u00ab Cookie Monster \u00bb : les intonations sont intelligibles, articul\u00e9es et conqu\u00e9rantes (proches de ce que Tompa d\u2019At the Gates sait chanter de nos jours\u2026). Les structures et plans sont vari\u00e9s, bien trouv\u00e9s, bien encha\u00een\u00e9s, passant sans incongruit\u00e9 de cavalcades virulentes \u00e0 des d\u00e9gringolades martiales, abyssales, voire d\u00e9sol\u00e9es\u2026 La production, enfin, est impeccable, les ambiances et atmosph\u00e8res sont cin\u00e9matiques, \u00e0 tendance belliqueuse&#8230; L\u2019implacable charge \u00ab Left For Dead \u00bb en laissera plus d\u2019un par terre en fin de circle pit (Unleashed entame le 9 ao\u00fbt une tourn\u00e9e des festivals : Brutal Assault, Summer Breeze, Kaltenbach Open Air, Kulturhuset Stadsteatern, etc.) Je dirais m\u00eame que les quatre Stockhomois r\u00e9alisent avec <em>Fire Upon Your Lands<\/em> un sacr\u00e9 coup de ma\u00eetre en mati\u00e8re de Viking metal ! Plus marquant, en tout cas, que les derni\u00e8res r\u00e9alisations d\u2019Amon Amarth, ce n\u2019est pas peu \u00e9crire\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Auteur : Unleashed Titre : Fire Upon Your Lands Label : Napalm Records Sortie le : 15 ao\u00fbt 2025 Note : 17,5\/20 &nbsp; &nbsp; Il y eu d\u2019abord eu le Big 4 du thrash US, puis le Big 4 du thrash allemand, et plus r\u00e9cemment le Gros 4 du metal fran\u00e7ais&#8230; Mais connaissiez-vous le Big 4 du death metal su\u00e9dois ? Celui-ci serait couramment form\u00e9 d\u2019Entombed, de Grave, de Dismember et d\u2019Unleashed\u2026 \u00ab Serait \u00bb, car \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9coute de Fire Upon Your Lands, le quinzi\u00e8me album de ces pionniers du genre (trente-six ans de carri\u00e8re) que sont Unleashed, on se [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":36664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1637,2363],"class_list":["post-36663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chroniques-cd","tag-suede","tag-viking-metal"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Unleashed - Fire Upon Your Lands - Art&#039;n&#039;Roll Webzine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Vous aimez le viking metal ? 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