Sounding similar to "Amor", À Mort, Tompox's 5th album is a concept album: It's based on an "Ad Absurdum" demonstration.
During his long and harsh depression, the lone Gérard Pacs goes through all what he's controversially re-considering:

1. "À La Vie" ("To Life") is an hectic double-bass powered hardcore blues. It begins with the simple sentence: "J'veux mourir" (I want to die), so that we know from this moment on what to expect. There are the drums, one furious guitar playing distorted arabic patterns and the lead singer's low voice.
2. "À Moi" ("To Me", but also "Help!") is somehow different: Based on a ---/.../--- (Morse code for S.O.S.) it's an oppressing work where the Fender Rhodes and the Hammond B3 organ exchange musical phrases.
3. "Au Monde" ("To the world") is a slow blues which begins with the words "Je veux partir" (I want to leave). It could have sounded standard-ish but, it's punctuated by a techno sounding Fender Rhodes bass.
4. "À L'Amour" ("To Love") is this album's masterpiece. It's "Le Slow de l'Hiver" (Winter ballad). It's a song about the death of love. It goes darker and darker until its coda where the bass switch from a thumping groove to a jazzy fingered improvisation which ends the song... alone. The great strength of this song is that, because of their similar sounding, it's not always obvious whether the guitarist is still singing or the guitar has begun a new chorus.
5. "À Dieu" ("To God") is groovier than the previous. Carried by a "synth Aaah"-choir, it's best approached as a rock "Kyrie Eleison". There's a Magma-sounding musical bridge in the middle. We can hear a dissonant Fender Rhodes piano in the background, a (lowly) distorted double-bass and a dialog about death as the lack of "after". Anyway, it's in this song that Gérard Pacs makes his only step backward by refusing blasphemy.
6. "Au Futur" ("To The Future") is here to relief the audience. It's a kitsch 80's-sounding electronic pop song with a vocoded voice. Gérard Pacs might be depressed, he still wanna dance (to Death) with you.
7. "À L'Art" ("To Art") is an interestingly sounding reggae-ish jazzy pop. It features a beautiful low voice which might remind of Frank Zappa in "The Torture Never Stops" (in "Zoot Allures").
8. "À Mort" ("To Death" but also "To the Death") was recorded on December 25th, 2004 : The loneliest evening in one's life. It's a Tango. And a blues. Very dark. The fact that it was entirely made while its creator was drunk makes it special.
9. "À Toi" ("To You") is a waltz-paced electro-sounding rap. It's as if Kraftwerk suddenly moved to Wien and began playing in 3/4. Very strange, it's addressed to anybody, as, as Jean-Paul Sartre once wrote it : "L'Enfer, c'est les autres".
10. "À Rien" ("To Nothing") is a ballad. The most disturbing song of the album, mostly because weeks later, it's still impossible to say if it's genius or crap. Maybe both but then, respectively for the wrong reasons.
11. "À Suivre" ("To Be Continued") ends the album. It's an end which isn't. It's also a March. It begins with a furious (sampled) drum solo which suddenly turn into something militar.

Why ?

Death is the most obvious way to change and a change was necessary.
In his most personal work to date, Gérard Pacs has weighted Life and Death to finally go on.
He also weighted influences (Laibach, Magma, Frank Zappa, The Police, Primus, Jacques Brel, Benjamin Britten...), and finally got through many styles which he desperately twiddled in order to build a new, unique sound of his own.
What makes it special ?
It was not the bass but its groove. It was not the low voice in itself. It could have been the Rhodes. and the guitar...

And the Hungarian Minor scale.

Album: À Mort
Band: Tompox
Personal: Gérard Pacs wrote, composed, played and sung all of it
Location: http://tompox.com/mp3/