Fassade
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| Studio album by Lacrimosa | |||||
| Released | 2001 | ||||
| Recorded | Impuls Musicproductions, Hamburg | ||||
| Genre | Gothic Metal | ||||
| Length | 52:55 | ||||
| Label | Hall of Sermon | ||||
| Producer | Tilo Wolff | ||||
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Fassade (English: Façade) is the seventh album by German duo Lacrimosa.
[edit] Themes
Whereas the previous album Elodia centred on love, Fassade's theme is that of a lonely individual feeling overwhelmed by society, exemplified by the central song, Fassade, divided into three Sätze (movements), and the album's artwork. There are also a sound between symphonic gothic metal and funeral doom metal rhythms and patterns, as seen in Fassade's differents parts.
The album's cover shows a crowd of men and women identically dressed in what can be assumed to be grey (the album's cover is in greyscale), emotionlessly watching three women wearing gothic lingerie parade down a catwalk. Every single individual in the audience has his or her head wired to the person next to them, implying that they are all part of a hivemind. The only person present other than the models and the audience is Lacrimosa's trademark clown, standing in a side door. The back of the album's cover shows that the back wall of the theatre has fallen away, revealing nothing but fog and the top of a skyscraper.
[edit] Track listing
English translations of the German titles are in (brackets).
- "Fassade - 1. Satz" (Façade - 1st Movement) - 09:16
- "Der Morgen danach" (The Morning After) - 04:17
- "Senses" - 06:03
- "Warum so tief?" (Why So Deep?) - 09:11
- "Fassade - 2. Satz" (Façade - 2nd Movement) - 05:34
- "Liebesspiel" (Loveplay) - 04:38
- "Stumme Worte" (Silent Words) - 05:57
- "Fassade - 3. Satz" (Façade - 3rd Movement) - 07:44
