Delìrium Còrdia


Delìrium Còrdia is the third studio album by American avant-garde metal band Fantômas, released on January 27, 2004, by Ipecac Recordings.

Reception

Delìrium Còrdia was met with mixed to positive reviews. Review aggregation site Metacritic lists its average score as 65 out of 100, characterising its reception as "generally favourable". AllMusic gave the album four stars out of five, and Stylus rated it B+, calling it "a balefully themed exercise in prompting your imagination". Rolling Stone awarded it three out of five stars, describing the 20-plus-minute end section as "maddening", though noting that it "demands repeated listens, if only to hear the freakish wonder that is Mike Patton's voice". Pitchfork were more critical, giving the album 5.9 out of 10, calling it "gloomy background music, and little else" though praising the "intensity" of Dave Lombardo's drumming.

Track listing

Notes
  • The name of the piece is sometimes thought to be "Surgical Sound Specimens from the Museum of Skin" or the Richard Selzer M.D. quote. However, it is officially known as "Delìrium Còrdia".

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