First Fragment - Gloire Éternelle

Artist: First Fragment
Track: Gloire Éternelle
Album: Gloire Eternelle
Year: October 29th 2021
Label: Unique Leader Records
Genre: Neo-Classical Tech Death
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First Fragment is :
David AB - Lead & Backing Vocals
Phil Tougas - Lead, Rhythm & Classical Guitars, Backing Vocals
Nick "Thriller" Miller - Lead & Rhythm guitars
Dominic "Forest" Lapointe - Fretless Lead Bass
Nicholas "Le Fou" Wells - Drums, Additional Backing Vocals
Dominic "Forest" Lapointe endorses Grimd Custom FX, Darkglass Electronics, Aguilar Amplification, Elixir Strings, Nordstrand Pickups
Nick "Thriller" Miller endorses Empress Effects & Darkglass Electronics
Nicholas "Le Fou" Wells endorses Los Cabos Drumsticks, Attack Drumheads & Percussion Ordnance
Gloire Éternelle
Music : Tougas - composed in autumn 2019
Lyrics : David AB
Solo 1 : Forest Solo 2 : Tougas Solo 3 : Tougas Solo 4: Forest Solo 5 : Miller Solo 6 : Forest
Mon esprit se détacha de mon corps et s'envola vers l'horizon / À la tombée de mes déboires, j'atteignis le seuil de mon obsolescence / Je me réveillai, après une éternité à nager dans la stagnation /Je délaissai mon berceau pour de nouvelles effervescences /Extirpé de ma chrysalide, je me défis de mon être charnel / Puis mon éclectisme me conduisit vers la gloire éternelle
Malgré l'amalgame des multiples transformations que j'avais subies / Ma visée affutée restera à jamais focussée sur ma fatalité
Solo 7 : Tougas
La toxicité de mon environnement luttait sans relâche contre mes pérégrinations
Les affres du désespoir n'étaient pas de taille à combattre mon obstination
La gloire, émergea, éclata
La gloire, m'enivra, me transporta
La gloire, me hissa, m'emporta
Subjugué par son apparat
La gloire, me détacha, m'émancipa
La gloire, me brûla, me consuma
La gloire, me blessa, me tua
Un plongeon dans l'au-delà
Devant une fin incertaine, je continuai l'avancée
Je ne pus rebuter le goût de ma curiosité
Je pris mon élan et sautai, tête baissée
Malgré l'amalgame des multiples transformations que j'avais subies
Ma visée affutée restera à jamais focussée sur ma fatalité
Solo 8 : Tougas
Solo 9 : Miller
Je me retrouvai face à face avec l'ennemi de mon subconscient
Je me fis tailler en pièces par mon infatigable acharnement
Je trépassai l'espace d'un moment
Je restaurai mon corps et ressuscitai une fois de plus d'entre les morts
J'étais prêt pour la grande ascension,
pour le début de mes dernières tribulations
Pour me rendre jusqu'à la cîme, je dus faire abstraction
de mes plus grandes peurs et gravir chacun des échelons
Solo 10 : Forest
Solo 11 : Tougas
La tempête rageait de plus en plus violemment
Le verglas acéré transperçait ma peau
La rareté de l'oxygène était croissante
Mais l'abandon n'était pas une option
Le sommet attendait impatiemment ma venue
Je mutai donc une fois de plus et m'élançai à la conquête de l'empyrée
Mon esprit se détacha de mon corps et s'envola vers l'horizon
À la tombée de mes déboires, j'atteignis le seuil de mon obsolescence
Je me réveillai, après une éternité à nager dans la stagnation
Je délaissai mon berceau pour de nouvelles effervescences
Extirpé de ma chrysalide, je me défis de mon être charnel
Puis mon éclectisme me conduisit vers la gloire éternelle

[@thaigo972]

The new Obscura is nice, but this album makes me feel like a teenager discovering tech death again. Incredible creativity.

[@PROJECTJoza100]

I'm literally listening to A valediction while I'm finding out that this album has been released. When I finish A valediction, I will have to listen to this then.

[@darkdrageon]

Let me guess, as teenager you got blown out by necrophagist.'s first album.

[@rachelcat7996]

This band is proof that metal will always push the bounds of creativity to create new and incredible sounds. 💕🤘

[@tontonsatan3093]

Indeed.

[@carinasanper]

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@tromboneman4517]

At it’s peak. It’s valleys are just as low. But yeah: this album and anything this band does is just absurdly good.

[@JohnDoe-thefirst]

The fact that this and archspire both drop on the same day is going to be historic in tech death world. 2021 has been a phenomenal year for tech death.

[@simondupuis23]

We need a drop from beyond for the epicness to be complete :p

[@Hideousspawn13]

I was just about to make the same comment. So pumped for tomorrow/later today

[@reptilianappeal]

Yeah for sure. If only Virvum was to drop a new album this year too. But I respect the creative process, they can take their time.

[@sebi2182]

Also the new Obscura is out today

[@albertoornelas9283]

When stars collide was just awful, how's the rest of the album?

[@Durrdiss]

It's like a concerto for metal band. Completely virtuosic!

[@garyhenry7975]

Look up Concerto by Obscura or Cacophony

[@pseudoab1125]

This is probably the most fun you can have with tech death if I'm honest

[@Davis-kz8rq]

This absolutely blew me away, but that’s normal for First Fragment.

[@darrendasenlee]

glad to see you here sir！

[@Davis-kz8rq]

@@darrendasenlee Hey man! Which song from here or bleed the future are you going to learn first?

[@darrendasenlee]

@@Davis-kz8rq im currently learning solus， and also i hope i will get the bass tabs of gloire eternelle from forest soon！

[@Davis-kz8rq]

@@darrendasenlee that's awesome that he would help out a fan like that.

[@darrendasenlee]

@@Davis-kz8rq hahahaha i learn bass from forest，he helped me all the time

[@dase1n352]

LES GOOOO ARCHSPIRE AND FF IN ONE DAY

[@XiyuYang]

Once in a while a band that sets the bar way over everyone else’s head come along, thank you First Fragment, for being you.

[@LuciusVulpes]

IT REPEATS. THE ENDING OF THE ALBUM COINCIDES WITH THE BEGINNING. HOLY SHIT.

[@Johnytomm]

Seriously, i fucking love the transitions. Same with the rain one in De Chair Et De Haine going into Sonata En Mi Mineur

[@jonathankillion6225]

Thank you for telling me this. I've been caught in the eternal loop for 2 weeks now.....not a bad place to be stuck, I must say

[@VoiceKulaka]

This is the most unique death metal I've ever heard! This album is amazing!

[@LycanWitch]

Just got finished listening to the whole album and I got to say, First Fragment has really set a new standard and raised the bar for tech death and metal in general. Start to finish the album is insanely good! It's one of those rare albums which you can listen from start to finish and never have the urge to skip a track because it's bad, boring, or weird.

[@andrewlikesmetal1095]

All killer no filler

[@mojsak5407]

Hey First Fragment, may creativity never leave your sound, we will need a long time to assimilate this.

[@BuckingFuffalos69]

Love how the bass takes so much spotlight in their songs it’s refreshing

[@scottbrowne785]

you would not dislike StarGazer from Australia, check it out!

[@eagonten]

Job for a cowboy's last album Sun Eater has a wild bassist too. Really proggy.

[@dangerass1982]

@@scottbrowne785 StarGazer is great and, yeah, The Great Righteous Destroyer is an incredible player.

[@symptomofsouls]

Soreption is another band that has very prominent bass.

[@jendkers]

The entrance of this song is simply amazing! Chills!

[@Neurotripsicks]

If Choppin met Francisco Tarrega and made a tech death album.

[@hashbrownz1999]

Gorod vibes

[@Johnytomm]

Album of the Year, no competition

[@GianProgg666]

This album is already a favorite and I'm only on the first track! 🙌

[@DennisTrovato]

Damn, I haven't heard a Tech Death band make latin music this good since Atheist. 😂

[@fatkraken3140]

check Valsa Pintura - The Emulsion you might like the song

[@TheSurrealist.]

Try Acrania dude!

[@spicymeatballs2thespicening]

@@TheSurrealist. what, what song

[@TheSurrealist.]

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[@buceadorcosmico8218]

It's folk lol

[@adrianomarcos3060]

in love! coisa linda! viajando legal nesse album. Parabens. E muito obrigado, First fragment. Lindo!

[@NahaelBeor]

archspire and first fragment same day.. lets fcking goooo

[@heyimgoingtoplaysomegames]

First Fragment, Archspire, and Defeated Sanity are pushing the boundaries of metal, and music in general, and I for one am so grateful that I am alive to hear it. Cheers, mates.

[@rafaelnunes1935]

Thats great! Hi from Brazil. Techdeath de qualidade rapaziada.

[@guibernardes3]

🇧🇷

[@get_obliterat8642]

My body flew away to the abyss at the first few seconds

[@caixiuying8901]

Oui

[@THEzTROLLlz]

Oui

[@Miscellany]

Oui

[@zhdrums3872]

First the Archspire album being dropped today and then just a few hours first Fragment releases their new track?!?! WHAT?!

[@totalmetalrejection6435]

I’m on vacation next month great vacation tunes

[@feliperuperto4348]

Waooo!!! Bravo!!!

[@molotovbatradio]

Crazy diverse sound 🔥

[@Koksajz]

This song needs a playthrough

[@Benobot99]

Wow, this is wild. Glad to hear my fellow Canadians have created an amazing album.

[@erfanshafighnia8259]

Thanks in all ways and forms. love from iran ❤

[@rdm7770]

This album is amazing

[@dexterj5615]

This album is everything I hoped for, my ears are bleeding and I've gone blind in one eye but it was totally worth it.

[@gristle_licker]

those amazing spanish influences and classical elements were what made me notice first fragment in the first place. and, you know, the insane speed and technicality

[@laserlobotomy]

The solos are so Malmsteen esque. Love it.

[@serpentinefire921]

Makes malmsteen look like a pop punk guitarist

[@laserlobotomy]

@@serpentinefire921 Why the disrespect?

[@serpentinefire921]

@@laserlobotomy truth isn't disrespect unless you're weak as fuck. Malmsteen was a god in the 80s, but the bar has been raised highly. Most of the older guys will naturally get left behind. To me, James Marshall Hendrix, and Mark knopfler are the greatest guitarists of all time, but Mark couldn't play tech death and neither could Jimi if he was still with us. Just the facts.

[@ryanjohnson9968]

My nachos moshed with the salsa 🍺 🔥

[@jordanstevens6237]

that gorod style groove tho

[@ghislainfontainebujold7834]

They had gorod's drummer at one point.

[@evergreentrail]

This is one of the best contemporary compositions. This will be referenced and studied. It's simply that good.

[@edmega4481]

Second time listening to this album, after having listened to Bleed the Future once... had to listen to this immediately after completion. Thank you FF 🤘😎

[@joshberry1297]

levels above everybody else. i've never heard a song like this.

[@BuckingFuffalos69]

Seriously.. most creative band ever

[@broncoxy]

thats how you start off an album, dayummmm

[@perspective6809]

Absolutely love it

[@supernaut7946]

This album is a masterpiece.

[@ThilinaBlyz]

Sick track 🖤 dope bass 🖤🖤🖤

[@TheSurrealist.]

Some tech death band use music to play technicality, which can just sound like a lot of noodling and feels shallow. Then there’s bands like First Fragment, who use technicality to play music, and this is some damn fine music.

[@spicymeatballs2thespicening]

Can you think of some bands that sound like the first, and any more bands that sound like the second

[@TheSurrealist.]

@@spicymeatballs2thespicening Brain Drill. While they are very talented sometimes they get way too technical. To the point where it’s kinda boring. They aren’t bad just need some variety.

[@TheSurrealist.]

@@spicymeatballs2thespicening A good description of the second would be Virvum.

[@R3tr0v1ru5]

This is noodly...

[@nachfullbarertrank5230]

@@R3tr0v1ru5 not as noodly as Dasein. :P

[@xandao6777]

Haven't felt like this in a long time, such an amazing album. I feel like a kid again discovering a whole new sound/genre, this is so great thank you guys 🖤

[@BN-cr2pu]

This shit slaps so hard ngl. On my 5th listen!

[@loukelele7381]

Hhahah la fin m’as tue du grand génie

[@mathieulepage5255]

Hallucinant ! Des virtuoses.

[@incongruous4]

Uncontrollably twerking to this

[@LyvTube]

I would never have imagined that french lyrics would fit so well for death metal music .... ça déboîte sa race !!! 🤘

[@georglechner986]

Incredible!!!!!❤

[@geraldlaurens6987]

Excellent

[@simondupuis23]

Pour moi à date cest tous mes bouts de tounnes préférés de FF depuis le debut mixer en un album du debut à la fin.. MALADE! Ma pastille de goût bin raide, bravo les boys!.. For me its just like if this album was all the old riffs that I digged of FF mixed in a one!! Sick shit.. near perfect 🤘🤘🤘

[@alk3603]

I had to listen 3 times just to get a sense of the melody and song structure of when the blasting started! Hot damn!

[@reaper15th]

YAY!

[@j.a.2770]

Metal to go skiing !

[@bigdaddynasty69]

This album!!!!!

[@4bzu]

The day has come...

[@JackWareingFilms]

Brilliant!

[@adrianparkes396]

Awesome

[@wtf1992alex]

HOLY SHIIIIIIT!!!!! ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

[@candrajoker8495]

Headbang always on

[@LemmyGibbler]

You guys are truly amazing. I think you finally just dethroned btbam as my favorite band for like 15 years standing. Great work guys!

[@mikewalnoha8971]

Btbam lol

[@diegoq8417]

Killer!

[@Concensusdown]

Unique!

[@Clemy-keltiek]

YES 🖤

[@jean-philippepiche1202]

Gloire éternelle... Quel titre approprié pour LA MEILLEURE CHANSON DE L'ALBUM! Pantheum est très TRÈS PROCHE, mais les passages GROOVY de gloire éternelle l'emportent!

[@jonnydoesguitars4247]

This entire album was as jaw dropping to listen to as discovering tech death was for the first time some 18sh years ago when I was in high-school and nobody heard of anything like it and just simply melted faces. Necrophagist/the faceless level of jaw dropping allover again man absolutely AMAZING.

[@massipunk7363]

Superbe!

[@somarriba333]

That riff in the middle makes me think of Majin Buu.

[@BirdOfHermes83]

No one : can you play instruments faster? First Fragment: Yes!!!

[@matthewherd]

🤯🤘🖤

[@______76___]

Debo de admitir que Rene ZZ a influido mucho en mi y e aquí la razón por la cual estoy escuchando esto. ❤ #homifellas

[@pabloribasfior2523]

This is sick. I just love it. Metal is way over distortion. Congratulations. Right now this should be the standard. I wish

[@blackerhawk1508]

This intro reminds me of hyperthrash one, amazing!

[@ronsonesteban8632]

RIP NYLITHIA.

[@Manny_CCTX]

Holy fuck this is very unique sounding in the most kick ass way

[@TomVautour]

artist: kicks ass song: kicks asss

[@tightgdallas8574]

100% 💯

[@starlessaether5808]

How many groove do you want? First Fragment: Yes

[@ivanzamora1980]

🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤯

[@jonsonyjonsonyjonson1791]

My new favorite disk, xd

[@user-uk9er5vw4c]

it took samba to another level

[@Twenty1st]

the bassist mixed this song

[@mirkingenting6132]

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@breakdownstv9284]

🔥👍👿

[@jimmyverrault8090]

this album is the top mondial in the world!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@coreywho2972]

Thank you all so much

[@minhquanphan1305]

HOLY SHIT

[@BleakFlesh]

BEAUTIFUL!

[@cvlt99]

cakep nih baru brayy, bisa sambil ngajak bini gw dansa di teras rumahh.

[@adammassacre4715]

So i guess the bass player mixed this? ;) sounds mental!

[@Stanley632x]

I can clearly hear some Septuagint influence in this one!! Love it!

[@PhilTougas]

There is none. This song is inspired by other First Fragment songs and parts, the same way the lyrics are directly linked to Dasein (our previous record) conceptually.

[@Stanley632x]

@@PhilTougas Omg, now i hear it. Even bigger goosebumps. My apologies man, you are geniuses.

[@tristanbarnhill9793]

Bass power engage

[@animadverte]

I wonder what this would sound like with a James Labrie kinda voice...

[@user-hm4od3wu1z]

I don't know why but it reminds me if Voivod was mixed with power metal and death metal. And they spoke French

[@flippypwa978]

J'achète l'album physique ou ? maudit que c'est bon ça \m/

[@7X13IS28]

Anyone know if they've released a tab/ score book for this album?

[@alexparadise91]

4:01 i was like 🥵