Biography
Black metal / post-punk side project of Famine from Peste Noire with a passion for French culture. So far Valfunde only released two songs including an instrumental song (on a split EP with Amesoeurs). Famine used Paul Verlaine's poem "Sérénade". The production is raw and is reminiscent of Peste Noire's demos. An English translation of Verlaine's poem (bearing in mind a poem can never be perfectly translated in another language):
Like the voice of a dead man who would sing
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in the depth of his grave,
Mistress mine, hear my strident, false voice
rise up to your retreat.
Open your soul and your ear to the sound
of my mandolin:
for you, for you have I made this song,
so cruel and tender.
I shall sing of your eyes of gold and onyx
free of all shades,
then the Lethe of your breast, then the Styx
of your dark hair.
Like the voice of a dead man who would sing
in the depth of his grave,
Mistress mine, hear my strident, false voice
rise up to your retreat.
Then will I richly praise, as is meet,
this blessed flesh
whose opulent perfume drifts back to me
in sleepless nights.
And to end, I shall speak of the kiss
of your red lip,
of your sweetness that tortures me,
- my Angel! – My Whore!
Open your soul and your ear to the sound
of my mandolin:
for you, for you have I made this song,
so cruel and tender.
Biography text from Last.fm, available under CC BY-SA.