APHELION (TOUR EDITION)

LEPROUS has become a major, innovative group; he resumes his tour cut by the pandemic; he released this compilation album from Aphelion' with the two bonuses including the live one from 2021 and the 6 live tracks from Motocultur and Berlin, recorded in 2022 of a good forty minutes. LEPROUS is surfing on its lucky star and is planning the live LP for next May, for ultra-fans. Otherwise for the 'Aphelion' go see my column on the site it is there, for the live I rather offer you a small report of their recent performance with the set-list which includes the 6 titles and more.

Indeed we could hear in the order: 'Have You Ever?', 'The Price', 'Angel', 'Observe The Train', 'On Hold', 'Castaway Angels', 'From The Flame', a song chosen by the public... which I forgot the title there, taken by the completely surreal atmosphere of said concert, in which Einar throws a paper in the crowd so that the lucky winner chooses his title; it fell on my right neighbor slightly paralyzed by this chance. Then 'Out of Here', 'Slave', 'Distant Bells', 'Below', 'Nighttime Disguise' and 'The Sky is Red' in an apocalyptic finale where it's actually red in the room but very intense white on both first rows. A concert that is intense, paradoxical, between moments of latency, relative calm and apocalyptic borderline moments, but always with extraordinary musicality.

Well, you will have understood that today's prog has audiences thanks to a few exceptional groups of which LEPROUS is a part; at worst take the album, the LP, at best go see them while they are still spinning, prog, dark metal is what we say and the live sound is much better than on his channel.