Elend have just answered some questions for the excellent French webzine The French Touch.Winds Cycle in domestic versions.Welcome to the redesigned Elend website.Feel free to subscribe to the newsletter...Once again, it is produced by Elend.Additionally, the Elend website is being redesigned.Elend are currently busy scoring the music and planning the recording sessions of their new studio album.Participants need to have java installed.Plugin: Days since last Visit 1.Iskandar Hasnawi and Renaud Tschirner.They are often classed as a metal act due to the fact that in their earlier days, they were signed to a label that released metal music almost exclusively.In actuality, though their sound has sometimes been very violent, they have never been metal of any form.How could I ignore this kind of music for so long?Elend's style is neoclassical and experimental (or just ambiental).In their own way they are one of the most extreme band I've heard.I'm in love with this band.And now I'll just go away and feel ashamed because I caught myself in a pointless genre debate.For example, The Protagonist mostly gets by with (admittedly costly) libraries, and still sounds quite natural and lush.Thanks for the info, moreaupat.AWITS will be our last album.That sucks, I was not expecting them to abruptly come to an end like this.Please listen to my music, let me know what you think!The most darkest piece of audio art ever recorded.This is a ripp off bootleg with bad print quality!But for an adequate rendering the music of the new album called for a much bigger ensemble.The access to professional instrumentalists has become a lot easier since we met our solo violinist David Kempf a few years ago.Some pieces were done with all instrumentalists, others section by section, depending on the precision of instrumental tones we needed to obtain in view of the final mix.There seems to have been a certain curiosity for innovation in the domain of dark and violent music, which made music eluding the instrumental norms of metal no hindrance to the listener, as long as it carried elements this particular public was familiar with.Sunwar the Dead goes far beyond in experimentation and the blending of contrasting elements.On previous albums like Winds Devouring Men Elend already incorporated industrial sounds, but this influences seem to have been replaced again by more complex arrangements.Every album has its own needs.The metaphor is by Iskandar Hasnawi, and I am afraid...