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Norwegian avant-metallers Solefald are in the final stages of preparation for their fourth full-length album, In Harmonia Universali (previously titled The Liberation of Destiny), the follow-up to last year's acclaimed Pills Against the Ageless Ills. "Having recently received the rough mix of our new album, In Harmonia Universali, says Solefald visionary Cornelius Jakhelln, "I can only say it sounds like Solefald! Positively, it does! The dingbats who always thought of us as a crazy band, will think so still; the people who on the contrary care about the music, will discover a bosom/bum/butt-kicking, progressive Heavy Metal record. "Currently, we plan on finally mixing the album in late July, still in the Top Room [Borknagar, Khold] studio," furthers Jakhelln. "To Lazare's great dismay (we remember the recent interview where he discussed pornography and human evil, frequently cited on the WWW), there is no VCR in the studio, meaning that he will not be able to watch skinflicks while mixing.Nevertheless, I can conform that there will be another sleazy song on In Harmonia Universali, as some kind of follow-up to "Pornographer Cain": "Dionysify This Night of Spring." As we never were boys for Satan, maybe we are boys for a bit of sleaze, after all. A good band needs a vice. The slick wanker bands make me fall asleep, profoundly and instantly. Try telling me how a hairdryer or muscles or dyed hair or made-up men or Satanism really rock... zzzzz... Better stay in the old obscure lounge of good sex and music that rules..." Besides "Dionysify This Night of Spring," Solefald has finished three other titles: "The Liberation of Destiny," "Epictetus & Irreversibility" and "Mont Blanc Providence Crow." In Harmonia Universali will be, according to Solefald a continuation of Pills Against the Ageless Ills but with more "edge." As of now, Solefald's In Harmonia Universali will probably land sometime in late 2002, early 2003 on Century Media Records. Stay tuned as we bring you more from Solefald.
 
as from Blabbermouth:

The complete track listing for "In Harmonia Universali" is as follows:

01. Nutrisco et Extinguo
02. Mont Blanc Providence Crow
03. Christiania (Edvard Munch Commemoration)
04. Epictetus & Irreversibility
05. Dionysify This Night of Spring
06. Red Music Diabolos
07. Buy My Sperm
08. Fraternité de la Grande Lumière
09. The Liberation of Destiny
10. Sonnenuntergang im Weltraum

"We just finished recording and mixing the album, and I must say that SOLEFALD has never sounded better!" Lazare, one half of the duo that comprises SOLEFALD, wrote on the group's message board. "I am in the process of mastering it in Oslo this week, so very soon we will have more than an hour of music just aching to be released to you people."

"[The new album is] certainly more experimental than [2001's 'Pills Against The Ageless Ills'], but I think the whole sound and production of the album makes it feel more straight forward than it really is," continued Lazare. "The album will consist of 10 songs, and the vocal arrangements are larger and more complex this time around. We brought along a male choir and a saxophone player in the studio, and that worked out perfectly. I didn't use synths as much as I usually do in the recording process - instead you will hear a lot of real Hammond organs (with a wooden Leslie case) and a Steinway grand piano. Damn I love those instruments!"

With regards to the album's multi-lingual approach and cover, Lazare wrote: "Yes, 'Fraternité' is a song in French, and 'Sonnenuntergang' is a song in German (it's not an instrumental - we actually sing in German). Cornelius wrote the lyrics for these ones. 'Nutrisco' is in Norwegian although the title is in Latin. There are several songs on this album that are 7-8 minutes long. The cover will be a fantastic oil painting - Just wait and see."