Enigma is Back with ‘The Fall of a Rebel Angel’

The Fall of a Rebel Angel is the eighth studio album from Germany’s legendary Enigma and was released world-wide on November 11, 2016 via Republic Records. The first studio album since 2008’s Seven Lives Many Faces, is a concept album that tells the story developed by Enigma’s founder, producer, and principal composer Michael Cretu and German lyricist and librettist Michael Kunze, of a protagonist’s journey of development and change to find a new, fulfilling life. Its artwork was designed by Wolfgang Beltracchi. The Fall of a Rebel Angel, marks the first release from Enigma since its 2010 fan collaboration track ‘MMX (The Social Song),’ and commemorates the group’s 20th Anniversary.

Michael Cretu, spent one year testing and and experimenting for a new Enigma studio album prior to recording. Cretu aimed to return to the Enigma sound adopted in its early years which earned the group its biggest international commercial and critical success, adding his wish to transfer the spirit of Enigma’s beginnings to the here and now, but in a new musical language. The Fall of a Rebel Angel is a concept album formed by 12 “chapter-like” tracks that tells a surreal narrative, based on an epic poem written for the album by German lyricist and librettist Michael Kunze, about a male protagonist’s journey of development and change to find a new, fulfilling life. Cretu described the story as a “symbolic journey to redemption—with everyone to define his individual path” combined with “psychedelic undertones.” He quotes from various literature, religious, and pop culture sources to aid the story which includes themes of sexuality, faith and death. In one chapter, the character wonders through an imaginary town and encounters a priestess whose god is the Marquis de Sade, thus becoming a continuation of the story to ‘Sadness (Part I)’, the world-wide smash hit single from Enigma’s 1990 debut album, MCMXC A.D. The story concludes with the individual breaking their own reflection in the water of a lake, accepting responsibility of its life.

Take a listen below.

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