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Elend

Musical Group

Elend is a Franco‑Austrian ensemble centered on composers Iskandar Hasnaoui and Renaud Tschirner, noted for dense, orchestral and often apocalyptic neoclassical music that mixes choir, chamber arrangements, dark ambient and industrial textures.

Founded around composers Iskandar Hasnaoui and Renaud Tschirner. Their discography includes the Officium Tenebrarum trilogy (beginning with Leçons de Ténèbres and including The Umbersun) and the Wind Cycle (Winds Devouring Men → Sunwar The Dead → A World in Their Screams, the latter described in reviews as the third and final chapter released in 2007). Reviews note frequent use of choirs, orchestration, dark ambient passages and industrial suggestions.

DeBaser reviews present Elend as a Franco‑Austrian ensemble known for dense, orchestral neoclassical works that blend choral writing, dark ambient textures and industrial elements. Critics praise the group's concept‑driven albums and the emotional intensity of releases such as Leçons de Ténèbres, The Umbersun and the Wind Cycle (Winds Devouring Men → Sunwar The Dead → A World in Their Screams). Reception is largely laudatory, with occasional criticism about stylistic echoes of other acts.

For:Listeners of neoclassical, dark ambient and avant‑garde orchestral music; fans of experimental choral and cinematic dark music.

 Pack your bags, the journey continues. And accompanying us is Misery ('elend' in archaic German).

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 This is because "Winds Devouring Men" is not music. It is a concept.

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 A World In Their Screams is indeed just as the title declaims: a vast world created from the screams of instruments and the damned, powerless witnesses to the coming of the Abyss.

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 Sixty-six minutes of grim darkness, a journey through pain, misery (elend means misery in German), the celebration of darkness, hatred, and death.

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 The guys take themselves too seriously and, besides copying CERTAIN things from the already mentioned Dead Can Dance, they compose long, verbose, and soporific pieces.

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