REVIEWS (FR) :

"Des compos déjà très abouties et la constante recherche de nouvelles sonorités et de nouvelles émotions" (Heavy Law)

"Bref, dans une actualité où la médiocrité et l'hypocrisie semblent de mise, il est très agréable d'écouter un album propre et honnête, loin d'être parfait, mais qui n'a en rien à rougir face aux grosses productions mondiales..." (Guts of Darkness)

"rappelant parfois l’avant gardisme de BJÖRK ou la délicatesse de THE GATHERING, THE COORS, voire des CRAMBERRIES ... EILERA est bel et bien EILERA et sous ces influences mixtes, une once identitaire suffisante a su se créer ! ... Un extra hors du commun !" (La Part D'Ombre)

"Si la base du combo est rock, les deux compères lui injectent des petites doses de métal de par quelques riffs bien appuyés, pas mal d'épices celtiques et une bonne rasade d'électronique à la limite de l'industriel...dynamisent un album où l'on pourrait se laisser endormir par la beauté du chant sans trop réagir, avec ces titres plus électroniques, plus vivants aussi, on reçoit des coups de fouet pour ne pas se laisser aller. " (W-Fenec)



STORY :

Facettes is Eilera's debut album. It was recorded in home-studio by two friends in the early times of home-studios. It was two metalheads creating a new form of Pop-Rock with much ambition and having much fun doing so.

After being the guitarist of her Death-Metal band Chrysalis, Eilera left the guitar temporarily to focus on her voice and on a new style of songwriting, in which she explored all the sounds that had been attractive to her before but that she had not been able to use: Rock, electronic, Celtic Folk, Gothic.
She did so together with guitarist Loïc Tézénas, who belonged in the same metallic circle as her in Montpellier (France) and with whom she had been playing for years. Facettes was the beginning of an exciting and promising voyage.
With that CD in her suitcase, Eilera departed to London, where she spent six months of her life making contacts and searching for a good record label for her project. Ironically enough, this is when she ran into an agent from then Finnish Metal label Spinefarm, who loved the CD and who offered her a record deal. Just like this, Eilera was called back to the Metal scene.

The label first asked for a re-recording of Facettes in studio, with heavier arrangements and sound production. However the producer in charge of the project Hiili Hiilesmaa's opinion was that Facettes was perfect as it was and that it should not be changed... A wise opinion, which led to the wise decision of leaving Facettes just as pure as it was and move on to create and record new songs.

It was then agreed between the label and Eilera that the new songs should carry the same fresh mixing of genres as in Facettes yet combine it with Heavy Metal.
This turning point in Eilera's life and music made her the first French woman to sign a big contract with a major Metal label outside her country and one of the first musicians to combine Melodic Metal and Heavy Rock with elements of other music genres - electronic, Pop, Gothic and Celtic music.