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THEATRE OF TRAGEDY
2000 - Musique.
way more Helter Skelter.

October 2, 2000 - 2025: 25 years of: Musique.

From somber darkness ...to electro-pop ?

It happened and it sounded beautiful. So few non-blackmetal bands come from Norway, yet THEATRE OF TRAGEDY's twisted trajectory is an uncommon trek. From 1998's melo-doom Aégis CD, they owned this vibe and as the millennium turned they went full 90° to a far-fetched once inaccessible extreme: dark industrial-pop !

['mju:zik] AKA Musique.

Rich sub-bass instantly fills the room as the "Machine" winds-off. Matched along the voice of an angel, with a Reznor-like vibe, this dance is different, lovable and also deeply alienating. Crunchy heaviness breaks down walls on "City Of Light" and the hammering "Crash / Concrete" is an iron fist in a velvet glove, a stomper not performed by RAMMSTEIN.

The alt commercial flair of "Image" and the hypnotic beat of "Musique" are perfectly tailored for the Berlin / Tokyo after-hours dance-floors, while the heavy kicks and haunting melodies of "Radio" solidifies the mad genius behind this band. The main focus is expressed with Liv Kristine's mesmerizing chants on "Reverie". A lonely white-rose in the mud, a warm melody in a cold digital age ...pure eerie gothicmetal.

"One and four, was for the Commodore." A new era is here and all the technologies are at our fingertips. Fashion and art took a turn deep into the future and extreme-metal also got tempted. Edgy bands like MORTIIS, AND OCEANS, THE KOVENANT and even MAYHEM were all caught in a cyber make-over.

THEATRE OF TRAGEDY's binary-formula would be uploaded again on 2002's Assembly CD ...the last Liv Kristine collaboration.

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Image = video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJba0rldUGk
Machine = video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRB-3hmB1UE
Musique = full CD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_xGTbsnbXI&list=OLAK5uy_m3ibePVTrYYV_eiZ0GL8Oep-F7p6_2KGk
Live in Norway in 2001
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwvsfSqjb3A