Puissance – Grace Of God

Label: Equilibrium Music – EQM017
Format: CD, Album, Enhanced
Country: Portugal
Released: 31 Jan 2007
Style:Modern Classical, Industrial, Ambient

The cogwheels on the Puissance warmachine are back to work, as defiant and innovative as ever. “Grace of God” re-invents the current notion of Martial-Pop, with their own superior combination of sumptuous Neo-Classical and Industrial music.

Three years after “State Collapse”, the cogwheels on the Puissance-warmachine have been fine-tuned and put to work again, in a crushing motion that seems to be as defiant and innovative as ever. Forerunners in blending post-Industrial soundscapes with seemingly Wagnerian inspired classical scores, the Swedish duo’s controversial portrayal of human life often tends to raise a mix of conflicting feelings towards them.

In keeping with such tradition, this return by Puissance serves as a lucid statement on current world affairs. In Soderlund’s own words, “"Grace of God”is partially meant as a commentary on contemporary events both social and political. Our goal is to inform yet retain a poetic undertone to frame our analysis of world politics and objectives. This album focus heavily on the foreign policy of western civilizations particularly inspired by neoconservatives and other proponents of economically based genocides in third world countries. Rather than subscribing to any political agenda, Puissance stands out as artists against the political and financial motives that have led up to numerous unresolvable conflicts that are on the verge of plunging us into the third world war.“

Musically, "Grace of God” could well be referred to as a re-definition of the currently over-abused Martial-Pop term, yet Puissance’s own superior combination of sumptuous Neo-Classical and Industrial elements raises any potential Pop anthem to an entirely distinct level. More melodic and vocal-oriented than before, this latest opus also comes to expose a more rhythmic approach that had been hinted at in previous releases, but which has now morphed into a powerful and relentless driving force in Söderlund and Möller’s compositions. Compellingly militant as well as beautifully apocalyptic, “Grace of God” finds Puissance in top form, presenting a fine compendium of all bits and pieces that the band have been flirting with throughout their career and incorporating them in a unique style which will again set new standards, as they have been known to do in previous outputs. 

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Puissance  – Mother Of Disease

Label: Equilibrium Music – EQM021
Format: CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered
Country: Portugal
Released: 31 Mar 2008
Style: Modern Classical, Industrial

In the year 1999, while mankind sat unnaware of their fate and wondering if the moon would drift away into the far reaches of space as the XXth century came to an end, Puissance would reappear, clad in shining armour.

With the Industrial rust of early days properly polished, the Swedish duo would further explore their talent for graceful arrangements set to Militaristic Neo-Classical music. Following the overtly confrontational offerings of “Let Us Lead” and “Back In Control”, Puissance were now set to resurrect the ghosts of Cold War and the obsession with all things thermonuclear that haunted the planet – the Mother of Disease, as they would call it – over that period. Brooding hymns to suicidal heroism, devotional praises to a new god that would finally bring closure to the human race, the screeching of metal twisting and melting – all of this would find its place in Puissance’s own beautiful vision of the impending apocalypse, that they so ingeniously depict on “Mother of Disease”.

“Mother of Disease” is the third full length album produced by Puissance, and also their third re-issue on Equilibrium Music, following the early “Let Us Lead” and “Back In Control” releases, and last year’s new album, “Grace of God”. Much like it’s predecessors on this fine collection, it has been re-mastered and enhanced with one bonus track, presented in a matte-blue deluxe digipak edition.

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