fresnel

FRESNEL started 2001 with a healthy DIY passion, that was fuel for

touring 9

european countries. One demo and a few line-up changes later they released a

4-track EP in 2003, that was very well received by relevant fanzines.

Fresnel's music was displayed as intelligent, challenging mind-games full of

off-beat accents and destructive dissonance.



After their EP release, heavy line-up changes along with decreasing live

appearence made it difficult to escape the impression that the band had

split up. In fact, they were more than once close to break up, but somehow

saved their asses every time.

At the peak of personnel disturbances in early 2006, vocalist and bass

player were dismissed, while the remaining three members agreed on not

touring anymore and reducing band activity to rehearsals only. That

development played well with the band's growing addiction to

instrumental-only arrangements, and allowed them to step back and finish

translating the past years' struggle into musical form.

Out of these manifold, bleak and unsettling sonic landscapes a first

instrumental 6-minutes-track was recorded with a new bass player for a split

7" in February 2007. Although not as blackmetal as the cover artwork wants

to make you believe, this is undoubtedly the darkest stuff Fresnel ever

recorded.



The band broke up in May 2008, on the verge of recording their first full length.



POST SEX CLEAN-UP live video (taken at arena wien, 01/10/2007)



GRIM FANDANGO live video (taken at stadtwerkstatt linz, 07/11/2006)



FRESNEL / VANCOUVER split 7" (noise appeal/division, 2007)



'grim fandango'

'staghunt'



SCENARIO cd-ep (noise appeal records, 2003, digipak)



'pale face'

'retina'

'fools wanted, apply!'

'my track in dust'



ASK ME / WHATTHEHELL demo (2001), 'ask me' is released on the

'postcards from the heartland' compilation (firewalk with me records)



'ask me'

'whatthehell'