# Fleurety > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Fleurety > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Fleurety.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleurety > Source revision: 1158368444 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) **Fleurety** is a [Norwegian](/source/Norway) [avant-garde metal](/source/Avant-garde_metal) band. The band was formed in 1991 by Svein Egil Hatlevik and Alexander Nordgaren. ## History The band released their first demo, *Black Snow* in 1993. After that came the 7-inch EP *[A Darker Shade of Evil](/source/A_Darker_Shade_of_Evil)* in 1994, released via the British label Aesthetic Death Records. Both of these were in a fairly traditional Norwegian [black metal](/source/Black_metal) style, although with very high-pitched screaming vocals, giving the band a characteristic sound. Their album *[Min Tid Skal Komme](/source/Min_Tid_Skal_Komme)*, was released in 1995 in cooperation with Aesthetic Death Records and Misanthropy Records. This recording featured an [avant-garde](/source/Avant-garde_metal)/[psychedelic](/source/Psychedelic_rock) black metal style with [atonal](/source/Atonal) harmonics, [folk music](/source/Folk_music) elements, and female vocals by Norwegian pop singer Marian Aas Hansen. With 1999's mini-album *Last-Minute Lies*, the band moved even further away from their black metal origins. This recording and the following album was released by [Supernal Music](/source/Supernal_Music). In 2000, Fleurety released their second album *[Department of Apocalyptic Affairs](/source/Department_of_Apocalyptic_Affairs)*. This album showed an even more [eclectic](/source/Eclecticism_in_music) musical style, spanning [metal](/source/Heavy_metal_music), [jazz](/source/Jazz) and [electronica](/source/Electronica), and featured an array of guest musicians from the intersection of the Norwegian black and avant garde metal scenes; among them [Kristoffer Rygg](/source/Kristoffer_Garm_Rygg) and Tore Ylwizaker from [Ulver](/source/Ulver), [Hellhammer](/source/Jan_Axel_Blomberg) and [Maniac](/source/Sven_Erik_Kristiansen) from [Mayhem](/source/Mayhem_(band)), [Carl-Michael Eide](/source/Carl-Michael_Eide) from [Aura Noir](/source/Aura_Noir) and [Ved Buens Ende](/source/Ved_Buens_Ende), [Steinar Sverd Johnsen](/source/Steinar_Sverd_Johnsen) from [Arcturus](/source/Arcturus_(band)), and Einar Sjursø from [Beyond Dawn](/source/Beyond_Dawn).[1] The *Min Tid Skal Komme* album was reissued by [Candlelight Records](/source/Candlelight_Records) in 2003, featuring the *A Darker Shade of Evil* recording and a track recorded for the 1995 *Blackend* compilation album, entitled "Absence". This album was also re-released in 2008 as a double gatefold LP through Aesthetic Death Records featuring the same material as the CD reissue plus the *[Black Snow](/source/Black_Snow_(Fleurety_album))* demo. In October 2009, Fleurety released the 7-inch vinyl ep *[Ingentes Atque Decorii Vexilliferi Apokalypsis](/source/Ingentes_Atque_Decorii_Vexilliferi_Apokalypsis)*. This release featured remakes of [vintage](/source/Vintage) material: the songs "Descent into Darkness", from the 1993 demo *[Black Snow](/source/Black_Snow_(Fleurety_album))* and "Absence". "Descent into Darkness" includes [Hellhammer](/source/Jan_Axel_Blomberg) and [Necrobutcher](/source/Necrobutcher) of [Mayhem](/source/Mayhem_(band)), and [Runhild Gammelsæter](/source/Runhild_Gammels%C3%A6ter) of [Thorr's Hammer](/source/Thorr's_Hammer) as guest musicians. This was the first in a string of EPs only available on vinyl and in a limited edition. The second release in the series, *[Evoco Bestias](/source/Evoco_Bestias)* was released in December 2010. In 2013, Fleurety released a new EP: *Et Spiritus Meus Semper Sub Sanguinantibus Stellis Habitatabit*. The fourth release in the series, *[Fragmenta Cuinsvis Aetatis Contemporaneae](/source/Fragmenta_Cuinsvis_Aetatis_Contemporaneae)* was released in 2017. In the same year the band released a compilation *[Inquietum](/source/Inquietum)*, which featuring all tracks from the 7-inch series. In October 2017, Fleurety released their third album *[The White Death](/source/The_White_Death_(album))* via [Peaceville Records](/source/Peaceville_Records). ## Discography ### Studio albums - *[Min Tid Skal Komme](/source/Min_Tid_Skal_Komme)* (1995) - *[Department of Apocalyptic Affairs](/source/Department_of_Apocalyptic_Affairs)* (2000) - *[The White Death](/source/The_White_Death_(album))* (2017) ### EPs - *[A Darker Shade of Evil](/source/A_Darker_Shade_of_Evil)* (1994) - *[Last-Minute Lies](/source/Last-Minute_Lies)* (1999) - *[Ingentes Atque Decorii Vexilliferi Apokalypsis](/source/Ingentes_Atque_Decorii_Vexilliferi_Apokalypsis)* (2009) - *[Evoco Bestias](/source/Evoco_Bestias)* (2010) - *[Et Spiritus Meus Semper Sub Sanguinantibus Stellis Habitabit](/source/Et_Spiritus_Meus_Semper_Sub_Sanguinantibus_Stellis_Habitabit)* (2013) - *[Fragmenta Cuinsvis Aetatis Contemporaneae](/source/Fragmenta_Cuinsvis_Aetatis_Contemporaneae)* (2017) ### Compilations - *[Inquietum](/source/Inquietum)* (2017) ### Demos - [*Black Snow*](/source/Black_Snow_(Fleurety_album)) (1993) ## Members ### Current members - Svein Egil Hatlevik – [drums](/source/Drum_kit), [synthesizer](/source/Synthesizer), [vocals](/source/Singing) - Alexander Nordgaren – [bass](/source/Bass_guitar), [guitar](/source/Electric_guitar), vocals ## References 1. York, William. "allmusic ((( Fleurety > Biography )))". [Allmusic](/source/Allmusic). Retrieved 2008-06-12. ## External links - [ Fleurety] at [Allmusic](/source/Allmusic) - [Avant-garde Metal - Stories: Fleurety - Far Away From Any Messianic Complex](http://www.avantgarde-metal.com/content/stories2.php?id=24) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20130515134029/http://www.avantgarde-metal.com/content/stories2.php?id=24) 2013-05-15 at the Wayback Machine --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Fleurety](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleurety) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleurety?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.