Montfaucon have unleashed a second new track titled “The Last Night”. Frontman Valentin Mayamsin comments:
“When I first heard Michel‘s piano playing many years ago — back when we were both aviation students in a university in Tashkent, Uzbekistan — I loved it because it was so dark and there was so much feeling to it. I realized I could put heavy guitar on top of it without much experimentation, without doing much to change the arrangement.
‘The Last Night’ is one of our most lyrical and melodic songs. The lyrics are inspired by Victor Hugo’s Notre-Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre-Dame). I was struck by the depiction of medieval execution by hanging and displaying the bodies as a warning to other people. Relatives were not allowed to bury their bodies according to Christian traditions. The story tells about a poor guy who risked his life to follow religious tradition, to save a soul of a hanged man.”
The song is taken from the group’s new album Renaissance, which drops on February 17th. Pre-orders are available now via the group’s Bandcamp.
[via Decibel]