L'Ordure à l'état Pur

L'Ordure à l'état Pur (French for The Pure Essence of Garbage) is the fourth full-length studio album by the French black metal band Peste Noire. It was released in 2013 on the Compact Disc format under bandleader Ludovic "Famine" Faure's own record label: La Mesnie Herlequin, which he established that same year.

Style
Although fundamentally a black metal record at its core, L'Ordure à l'état Pur exhibits prominent French folk music, avant-garde, and industrial elements mixed in with traces of ska punk, post-metal, and electronia. Moreover, the album features the playing of instruments that are seldom used in black metal music including the trombone, accordion, timpani, cello and épinette des Vosges.

In addition to the name of the album itself, its song titles and lyrics are entirely written/sung in the French language – maintaining a consistency with the band's other releases.

Peste Noire

 * DJ Famine (Ludovic Faure) – vocals, acoustic guitar, lead guitar, rhythm guitar, Epinette des Vosges, production
 * Vicomte Chtedire de Kroumpadis – drums, percussion
 * Audrey Sylvain – clean vocals

Session musicians

 * Indria – bass guitar, fretless bass
 * L'Atrabilaire Maldo – Occitan preaches (track 1)
 * Seigneur Arawn – vocals (track 3)
 * Lulu l'ermite – backing vocals (track 3, 4)
 * Miss Peste Nègre – accordion
 * Rachid de France – trombone

Additional personnel

 * Engwar – engineering, mixing, cello, timpani and backing vocals (track 5)
 * Mika Jussila – mastering
 * Valnègre (Jean-Emmanuel Simoulin) – artwork and photography