{"id":17024,"date":"2012-01-01T15:33:28","date_gmt":"2012-01-01T15:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.desert-rock.com\/dr\/chrocd\/el-thule-green-magic.html"},"modified":"2026-03-15T14:16:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T13:16:33","slug":"el-thule-green-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desert-rock.com\/site\/el-thule-green-magic.html","title":{"rendered":"El Thule &#8211; Green Magic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/desert-rock.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Green Magic.jpg\" alt=\"El Thule - Green Magic\" width=\"205\" height=\"205\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" \/><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Je l&rsquo;avoue d&#8217;embl\u00e9e, le fait que El Thule sorte son deuxi\u00e8me album ces temps-\u00e7i ne m&#8217;emballait pas outre mesure. Pour cause, un premier essai qui empilait une majorit\u00e9 de titres courts, punky et crades sur les bords qui fonctionnaient beaucoup mieux sur sc\u00e8ne que sur ma platine, principalement en raison de la d\u00e9bauche d&rsquo;\u00e9nergie d\u00e9ploy\u00e9e sur les planches par ces trois zicos italiens. J&rsquo;ai du l&rsquo;\u00e9couter une demi-douzaine de fois avant de le ranger dans le bas de la pile d&rsquo;o\u00f9 il n&rsquo;est plus jamais ressorti.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Bien que la pochette de <i>Green Magic<\/i> m&rsquo;\u00e9voqua \u00e0 premi\u00e8re vue celle de la derni\u00e8re livraison de Electric Wizard, ce qui aurait du \u00e9veiller quelques soup\u00e7ons, c&rsquo;est sans aucune excitation que j&rsquo;enfournai cette nouvelle plaque. Je le fis m\u00eame avec une l\u00e9g\u00e8re appr\u00e9hension, celle de d\u00e9crocher apr\u00e8s trois titres, voir quatre selon mon humeur.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">D\u00e8s les premi\u00e8res mesures qui succ\u00e9d\u00e8rent \u00e0 l&rsquo;intro au didgeridoo, je me ruai sur le livret afin de le d\u00e9cortiquer sous toutes ses coutures pour m&rsquo;assurer qu&rsquo;il s&rsquo;agissait bien du m\u00eame groupe qui nous avait livr\u00e9s <i>No Guts, No Glory<\/i> il y a quelques ann\u00e9es. Car en mati\u00e8re de changement de direction musicale, on a rarement vu un revirement aussi radical, sauf peut-\u00eatre chez les suiveurs de modes qui polluent les ondes, ce qui est bien sur loin d&rsquo;\u00eatre le cas ici. Malgr\u00e9 quelques r\u00e9miniscences punk parfois d\u00e9celables, El Thule a en effet largement chang\u00e9 de registre en alourdissant consid\u00e9rablement le propos, bien aid\u00e9 en cela par la production de Mr. Dango (guitariste pois sauteur de Truckfighters) et Gabriele Ferreri qui leurs ont peaufin\u00e9 un son \u00e9norme et compact tout en ma\u00eetrisant parfaitement l&rsquo;art de faire sonner l&rsquo;ensemble comme un bordel parfaitement organis\u00e9, ce qui sied parfaitement \u00e0 leurs vell\u00e9it\u00e9s de verser d\u00e9sormais dans un Heavy Doom qui s\u00e9duira les amateurs de High on Fire, au hasard.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Les \u00e9jaculations de 2&rsquo;30\u00a0\u00bb font d\u00e9sormais place \u00e0 des titres bien plomb\u00e9s tournant r\u00e9guli\u00e8rement autour des 8 minutes mais riches en rebondissements. C\u00e0 fr\u00f4le parfois le Sludge sans jamais y verser compl\u00e8tement, \u00e7\u00e0 lorgne r\u00e9guli\u00e8rement vers un Sick Doom dont l&rsquo;aspect malsain est d\u00e9samorc\u00e9 par de longs solos au feeling 70&rsquo;s parfaitement ma\u00eetris\u00e9 (Tommi Holappa fait d&rsquo;ailleurs une apparition remarqu\u00e9e dans un registre qu&rsquo;on lui connaissait moins) et \u00e7\u00e0 se l\u00e2che dans des plans rock&rsquo;n&rsquo;roll dop\u00e9s \u00e0 la testost\u00e9rone qui \u00e9voquent Entombed, m\u00eame si ces derniers pr\u00e9tendent jouer exclusivement du Death Metal. Quels que soient les chemins emprunt\u00e9s, le r\u00e9sultat est toujours intense sans jamais tomber dans l&rsquo;exc\u00e8s de lourdeur et cette capacit\u00e9 \u00e0 rester sur le fil, \u00e0 jouer avec diff\u00e9rents styles en restant coh\u00e9rent conf\u00e8re \u00e0 cet album une touche particuli\u00e8re m\u00eame s&rsquo;il n&rsquo;apporte rien de fondamentalement novateur.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">En conservant les m\u00eames ingr\u00e9dients, c&rsquo;est-\u00e0-dire un son bien gras et une furieuse envie de jouer tr\u00e8s fort, mais en les accommodant de fa\u00e7on diff\u00e9rente, El Thule surprend agr\u00e9ablement gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 ces huit titres qui ne font certes pas dans la dentelle mais r\u00e9v\u00e8lent un talent de composition qu&rsquo;on ne suspectait pas \u00e0 l&rsquo;\u00e9coute de leur premier m\u00e9fait. Pas certain que cette plaque leur apporte la gloire mais on peut les rassurer, les guts sont toujours bien pr\u00e9sentes !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Je l&rsquo;avoue d&#8217;embl\u00e9e, le fait que El Thule sorte son deuxi\u00e8me album ces temps-\u00e7i ne m&#8217;emballait pas outre mesure. Pour cause, un premier essai qui empilait une majorit\u00e9 de titres courts, punky et crades sur les bords qui fonctionnaient beaucoup mieux sur sc\u00e8ne que sur ma platine, principalement en raison de la d\u00e9bauche d&rsquo;\u00e9nergie d\u00e9ploy\u00e9e [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[617,1667,1880],"tags":[648,903,223],"class_list":["post-17024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-617","category-disques","category-jihem","tag-648","tag-el-thule","tag-go-down-records"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>El Thule - Green Magic - Desert-rock.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/desert-rock.com\/site\/el-thule-green-magic.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"fr_FR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"El Thule - Green Magic - Desert-rock.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Je l&rsquo;avoue d&#8217;embl\u00e9e, le fait que El Thule sorte son deuxi\u00e8me album ces temps-\u00e7i ne m&#8217;emballait pas outre mesure. 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