12 trackz running time 42'48'' first long opus "The first necronomicocktail of sickadelic soundscapes, europaganonsense music and minimalisterical ultrapocalypsongs by this bizarre french artist.. When "less" is "more" in your folk-face Kamerads ! Feat. Melek-Tha in the Mix."

Indus
Label : Autoprod
Country : France
Year : 2002

Quote from label: Cette musique aux riffs abrasifs et enragées ne vous laissera pas insensible surtout pour ceux étant fan de musiques brutales et êtantes.
Cette première demo se range aux côtés de groupes comme Vassafor, Pseudogod, Revenge...
Cette demo est limitée à 100 copies et est délivrée avec un code de téléchargement digital.


Black/Death Metal
Label : Atavism
Country : France
Year : 2017

Quote from label: "After a first release shaping what will be Absolvtion, the band goes on his path with a debut EP that unveiled a heavier music and more mature.
Their sound approach can be compare to notorious acts from the Black/Death scene such as Vassafor Temple Nightside, Pseudogod or Archgoat.

For this new offering, the band worked hard on the production, reinforcing the compositions.
The lyrics deals with the human condition, his report to religion and the desire to rise above the masses and reveal his true nature".

Black Metal
Label : Atavism
Country : France
Year : 2018

Quality woven patch.

5,5 x 11.5 cm

Black/Death Metal
Label : Atavism
Country : France
Year : 2018

French black metal, first album rereleased on tape.

Black Metal
Label : Narbentage
Country : France
Year : 2017

2004 - Brutal Death Metal


Death Metal
Label : Osmose
Country : France
Year : 2004

Death Metal taking inspirations from GRAVE, UNLEASHED, ASPHYX, MASSACRE, BOLT THROWER...

Death Metal
Label : Forgotten Wisdom
Country : France
Year : 2008

Killer old school death metal! 4-tracks mini cd.

Death Metal
Label : Metal Inquisition
Country : France
Year : 2012

10" + printed innerbag

French Old School Death Metal at its best!

Limited to 500 copies.



Death Metal
Label : Gospels of Death
Country : France
Year : 2014

Death Metal
Country : France
Year : 2015
Available sizes : M

Killer Old School Death Metal!

Death Metal
Label : Transcending Obscurity
Country : France
Year : 2016

Brilliant Death Metal in the way of BOLT THROWER. Limited to 100 copies.

Death Metal
Label : Atavism
Country : France
Year : 2017

High quality Embroidered patch

Black/Thrash Metal
Label : Projekt' Ill
Country : France

Quote from label: "Intense emotional Black Metal from the Vosges Mountains, a crescendo fall into anguish and pain."



Black Metal
Label : Deaf Death Husky
Country : France
Year : 2016

The cult debuts : 3 demos from '86, '87, '89 ! Truly excellent Thrash/Death Metal.

Death Metal
Label : Deadsun
Country : France

Limited to 500 copies

Death Metal
Label : Criminal
Country : France
Year : 2001

Metal band from Toulouse and Limoges.
With members of Eryn Non Dae., Barbarian Koala and Disclosed Silence.

Metal
Label : Braincrushing Records
Country : France
Year : 2013

Crude Black Metal in your fucking face!

Black Metal
Label : Insidious Poisoning
Country : France
Year : 2007

16 page-booklet - 5 tracks

2nd full length of this Industrial Black Metal project.

Vamâcârâ Sadhana sophia si based upon the dissolution into chaos and the emancipation ov personnality from every kind ov dogma or ethical concept. It promotes total art ov destruction, liberated from every influence or static ethic. The metaphysical and philosophical thought is the dark thread ov his global concept which takes root from a strong personnal will and a reflexion upon non conditionned expression...
The Word links up around our own act ov deconditioning and poor possibility towards the absolute in which society defines all political or religious values. Moralism is an obstruction to our awakening...




Industrial Metal
Label : Necrocosm
Country : France
Year : 2015

French pagan black metal.

Black Metal
Label : Asgard Hass
Country : France
Year : 2016

Impressive new album of occult music!

Experimental
Label : Norma Evangelium Diaboli
Country : France
Year : 2016

Fast and epic Black Metal about canadian and inuit legends.

Black Metal
Label : Impious Desecration
Country : France
Year : 2017

Occasion - L'auteur de Stupeur et tremblements (Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française 1999) et de Métaphysique des tubes fait revivre ses souvenirs de petite enfance au Japon mais aussi à Pékin, à New York, au Bangladesh et autres lieux où l'a conduite la carrière d'un père diplomate. Au cœur du kaléidoscope : sa faim. Le mystère de la faim, la faim goinfre, joyeuse ou tragique et angoissante,
quête perpétuelle d'un accomplissement inaccessible, qui explique autant l'histoire des peuples que celle des individus. Les figures du père, d'une nourrice japonaise, d'une sœur tendrement aimée se dessinent aussi dans ce récit pudique et sincère, maniant l'humour noir et la provocation.


Editor : Albin Michel
Country : France
Year : 2004

Black Metal
Label : Battlesk'rs
Country : France
Year : 2006

Melodic Death Metal.

Death Metal
Label : New Death
Country : France
Year : 2008

Compilation of Maleficum Orgia's tracks from "Rehearsal 2001" and Ankrismah's tracks from "Rehearsal 2002".

Black Metal
Label : K35Inc
Country : France
Year : 2002

Demo - Burzum's first album worshipping.

Black Metal
Label : Krieg
Country : France
Year : 2004

Second demo from this occult french band, four titles of darkness with dark-ambient parts. White vinyl, limited to 500 copies.

Black Metal
Label : Necromancer
Country : France
Year : 2008

Black Metal
Label : Norma Evangelium Diaboli
Country : France
Year : 2016

Black Metal
Label : Norma Evangelium Diaboli
Country : France
Year : 2016

Quality metal pin.

Sizes: 4,5 cm / 5 cm

Black Metal
Label : Morsomnibvs
Country : France
Year : 2000

(1"1/4)/32 mm

Black Metal
Label : Atavism
Country : France
Year : 2000

2K17 edition of this cult design.
Design by E & S (Sweden)

Fruit of the loom
Soft spun

Black Metal
Label : Battlesk'rs
Country : France
Year : 2017
Available sizes : S,M,XL,XXL

Design by E & S (Sweden)

Fruit of the loom
Soft spun

Black Metal
Label : Battlesk'rs
Country : France
Year : 2017
Available sizes : S,M,L

Back in stock!

Quality printing on black Just Hood zipped HS.

ANTAEUS logo print on the Hood
I HOPE YOU DIE print on the heart
both sleeves printed
and Evangelikum Warchangel drawing on back.


Black Metal
Label : Battlesk'rs
Country : France
Year : 2018
Available sizes : M

Reissue of their 2006 opus.

Black Metal
Label : Norma Evangelium Diaboli
Country : France
Year : 2019

Davide Del Col has been working in the specific and uncompromising ritual dark ambient genre since the end of the 90s, this firstly under the moniker of Ornament for a couple of very rare limited editions then as Antikatechon which now represents the highlight of his artistic and stylistic creativity. A first full length album has been published on Silentes Minimal Editions back in 2011, this one provides a very accomplished effort in the realms of hauntingly dark ambient music with a touch of melancholic-spiritual inflected nihilism. Signed on Rage in Eden, "Chrisma Crucifixorum" is an other eloquent and complex release which oscillates between stately gazing drone sequences and original audio treatments, the whole thing surrounded by a sacral aura. 2013 saw the rise of a collaborative effort with the pioneering ethno-noise ambient act Nimh, also from Italy. This musical meeting gave birth to a passionate and typical dark ambient offering. The conceptual-visual background is connected to the visions and powerful painting works of Goya. Davide Del Col presents here his new catchy electronic dark ambient release entitled "Woe is the Reward", welcomed by Rage in Eden Records. A tremendous, entrancing and blasting dark ambient odyssey full of majestic sound sculptures, huge resonances, bleak noises, metallic reverbs and many more. This sonic, soundtracky and "acoustically haunted" ambient symphony will totally enthrall and ravish the listener. Be prepared to this intense sonorous adventure. -- Philippe Blache



Ambient
Label : Rage In Eden
Country : France
Year : 2014

Solo project by Kaiser W. from AD HOMINEM. Industrial Black Metal inspired and dedicated to Mysticum and Friedrich Nietzsche.

Black Metal
Label : Blazing
Country : France
Year : 2004

First full lenght of this new french black metal act, including members from MERRIMACK and WORMFOOD.

Black Metal
Label : Tenebrd
Country : France
Year : 2013

Epic hateful Black Metal with nice drummings.

Black Metal
Label : Unlight
Country : France
Year : 2008

Post Black Metal

Black Metal
Label : Antinomie Productions
Country : France
Year : 2016

Quote from label: "L’esprit des vents, third album from the trilogy started with La Croisée des Vents (2007) and followed by La Cité des Vents (2010), mark the band’s return after 7 years of discographic absence and 10 years of existence. The album is built on a desire of continuity, yet in the same time a will to break with what has been done : a more elaborated sound, an assumed maturity. The subjects are once again local, regional and occitan legends and tales, but also story of famous smugglers or belligerent figures who marked some periods of our country".


Label : Les Acteurs de l'Ombre
Country : France
Year : 2018

Quote from label: "The alliance of four french Black / Death bands around medieval themes. Seven exclusives tracks for 31 minutes"

Black/Death Metal
Label : De Profundis
Country : France
Year : 2012

Quote from label: "contains 11 nighttime tracks brimming with rhythmic switchbacks and momentum swings that push darkness into strange and intriguing corners. The record replaces ANO's riotous rollicking with shadowy landscapes of grim sound that encapsulate the band's eccentricity. From the psych-rich shake of "Turn on Your Mind" and "Human Toad" to the death-ride kick of "Up to the Sky" and "Crystal Man" through to the twisted take on the 13th Floor Elevators' "Roller Coaster", AQUA NEBULA OSCILLATOR's Spiritus Mundi plays like a haunting dream of dark and disturbing things, offering a can't-miss masterclass on the emotional possibilities of sound."

Rock
Label : Tee Pee
Country : France
Year : 2013

Quote from label: ""Our new LP is a psychedelic testimony of a trip through the Underground world," said Sphaèr'os when asked for comment. "We are subterranean space rock for burial grounds!"

Rock
Label : Tee Pee
Country : France
Year : 2012

Raw, crude Funeral Doom. Contains the 2 demos of this project, 50 minutes.

Doom Metal
Label : Obskure Sombre
Country : France
Year : 2006

New masterpiece after ten years of silence. A must have!

Black/Death Metal
Label : Les Acteurs de l'Ombre
Country : France
Year : 2017

New masterpiece after ten years of silence. A must have!

Black vinyl version.

Black/Death Metal
Label : Les Acteurs de l'Ombre
Country : France
Year : 2017

Pagan Black Metal. Limited to 500 Copies

Black Metal
Label : Resistancia Underground
Country : France
Year : 2008

High quality woven patch
Sizes: 10 cm / 8 cm
100 copies

Black Metal
Label : Battlesk'rs
Country : France
Year : 2018

limited to 333 copies.

21 years ago was recorded the first and only opus of the french Asmodée « Aequilanx ». Not to be confused with the others french bands of the same name. Asmodée was a short-life project, 2 main members Spica and Gregor have evolved the same year in what becomes « Satanas Vobiscum et Spiritum Tuo » - S.V.E.S.T. while the 3 others members have fallen in a black abyss. During the same period Spica was also focused on Cantus Bestiae, another perfect exemple of what Black Metal should be. What you can listen here is the supremacy of French Black Metal of the 90’s era. And the first step of 2 incredible devotees of the Devil that have marked the French Black Metal with their still burning sigil.

Initially released on tape in 1997 and in 2001 on vinyl by End All Life Productions.


Listen:
YouTube


Black Metal
Label : Battlesk'rs
Country : France
Year : 2018

Psy-Electronica

Electro
Label : Vacuum
Country : France
Year : 2000

Split album of these two french grind acts.

Grind
Label : Kaotoxin
Country : France
Year : 2014

Logo - 32 mm

Black Metal
Label : Atavism
Country : France

“Take a breath. Drink a beer. Smoke weed. Relax. Drink another beer. Push the volume up. Press play. Explode. Get fuzzed.” These are the words that ATOMIC TRIP live by and for good reason – this band fucking rules! These DOOM warlords have created the Instrumental Doom album of the year entitled Strike #1. Over the course of 40 minutes, this band proves that they can’t be fucked with when it comes to creating riffs that kill on contact. What I love about this record is how they are able to manifest such dynamic songs without using vocals. ATOMIC TRIP’s tunes are the perfect soundscape for your mind to run wild in a HEAVY NEVER-NEVER-LAND! CVLT Nation must salute these Doom Warlords for creating the best Instrumental Doom album of 2017…Now all you have to do is release it on vinyl or cassette, PLEASE!" - CVLT NATION

Green vinyl version.

Doom Metal
Country : France
Year : 2018

“Take a breath. Drink a beer. Smoke weed. Relax. Drink another beer. Push the volume up. Press play. Explode. Get fuzzed.” These are the words that ATOMIC TRIP live by and for good reason – this band fucking rules! These DOOM warlords have created the Instrumental Doom album of the year entitled Strike #1. Over the course of 40 minutes, this band proves that they can’t be fucked with when it comes to creating riffs that kill on contact. What I love about this record is how they are able to manifest such dynamic songs without using vocals. ATOMIC TRIP’s tunes are the perfect soundscape for your mind to run wild in a HEAVY NEVER-NEVER-LAND! CVLT Nation must salute these Doom Warlords for creating the best Instrumental Doom album of 2017…Now all you have to do is release it on vinyl or cassette, PLEASE!" - CVLT NATION

Black vinyl version.

Doom Metal
Country : France
Year : 2018

Killer Death Metal

Death Metal
Label : Iron Bonehead
Country : France
Year : 2016

Quote from label: "Here's the european reissue of the first AUSSITOT MORT (from Caen) record (initially released on the japanese label Oto Records in 2008 and now sold out) with their first ep record ("6 Songs", released in 2007) as bonus tracks. The colors of the original cover were totally redone to put all together these initial 14 songs of the band from Normandy with heavy post-metal tunes and long instrumental parts ("Montuenga" era) and strong post-hardcore songs woth screamo vocals ("6 Songs" era) always with original and franch lyrics. It's very hard to describe AUSSITOT MORT music with standard labels, finally the only thing we can say is their music is truly personal and honest".

Post-Rock
Label : Music Fear Satan
Country : France
Year : 2012

Really interesting industrial Death Metal with a totalitarian concept.

Death Metal
Label : Krucyator
Country : France
Year : 2016

French Pagan Black Metal compilation.

01. Möhrkvlth – A-dreñv Brummen An Istor
02. Pestiferum – La Plaie
03. Aries – Viriliter et Sapienter
04. Wyrms – Dysgenic Imperial Vortex
05. Allobrogia – Sol Invictus
06. Les Chants De Nihil – Nouveau Domaine
07. Griffon – Souviens-toi Karbala
08. Neptrecus – Les Cuirassiers de Morsbronn
09. Darkenhöld – Ruines Scellées en la Vieille Forêt
10. Himinbjorg – Initiation
11. Nydvind – Skywrath
12. Belenos – Armorika

Black Metal
Label : Asgard Hass
Country : France
Year : 2017

Quote from label: "Mélodique, puissante et militante, la musique du groupe s'inspire de ses prédécesseurs occidentaux en allant de Dark Fury à Brume d'Automne.
Elle nous dévoile un monde dénué de respect, nous ramenant à notre héritage, nos combats, nous enseignant que notre Destin ne dépend plus que de nous.
Cette demo épique et élitiste transmet un sentiment de soulèvement au dessus d'un monde moderne, en des temps de dissolution.
Une nouvelle aurore pour la résistance.

Pro-tape strictement limitée à 100 ex".

Black Metal
Label : Atavism
Country : France
Year : 2014

High quality girly with BAEL's logo on fruit of the loom's shirts.

Black Metal
Label : Battlesk'rs
Country : France
Year : 2010
Available sizes : S,M,L

High quality T-shirt with BAEL's logo on fruit of the loom's shirts.


Black Metal
Label : Battlesk'rs
Country : France
Year : 2010
Available sizes : S,XL,XXL

Quote from label: "After their first full lenght record released in 2012 by Radar Swarm Records and a split LP with YEAR OF NO LIGHT, here is the BAGARRE GENERALE sophomore album. Since five years and some lineup changes, the music of BAGARRE GENERALE becomes harder and more aggressive with a heavy drums-bass section still guided by ethereal guitars and loud brass instruments which make the band unique. The three long tracks are a real trip to the band universe and sound like a post metal soundtrack composed for a an old peplum movie."

Post-Rock
Label : Music Fear Satan
Country : France
Year : 2017

Quote from label: "After their first full lenght record released in 2012 by Radar Swarm Records and a split LP with YEAR OF NO LIGHT, here is the BAGARRE GENERALE sophomore album. Since five years and some lineup changes, the music of BAGARRE GENERALE becomes harder and more aggressive with a heavy drums-bass section still guided by ethereal guitars and loud brass instruments which make the band unique. The three long tracks are a real trip to the band universe and sound like a post metal soundtrack composed for a an old peplum movie".

Post-Rock
Label : Music Fear Satan
Country : France
Year : 2017

Limited Edition, Numbered, Green Translucent

French Psychobilly!

Rock
Label : Devil Rats
Country : France
Year : 2016

Split w/insert - Depressive Black Metal by Amduscias from Temple of Baal / Fast and aggressive Black Metal by Aguarès from Baël. Limited, good layout.

Black Metal
Label : D.U.K.E.
Country : France
Year : 2004

Quote from label: What you hear is what you get. BAPTISM deliver another album that is firmly rooted in Finnish black metal orthodoxy. Again their raw and unbound musical fierceness is counterbalanced by epic melodies buried underneath a shredding onslaught and majestic atmospheres. Yet despite staying true to course there is neither a feeling of stagnation nor of senseless nostalgia. BAPTISM excel in keeping true to their course, while appearing fresh and raising the stakes with their fifth full-length.

Black Metal
Label : Season of Mist
Country : France
Year : 2016

Quote from label: "Massive, crushing, raw, Barús channels emotions through technical music while delivering a complex and sincere death metal. Alternating stiffling atmospheres and controlled chaos, the band seamlessly interweaves heavyness and raging fury to create musical pieces during which each sonic evolution is a stone added to the Barús monument. Like a lead downpour summond by imperious declamations and powerful, abysmal groans, the band’s music besieges the listerner’s senses and takes on a new dimension through the four tracks of this EP".

Death Metal
Label : Les Acteurs de l'Ombre
Country : France
Year : 2016

New effort of really interesting Stoner/Noise rock from France.

Doom Metal
Label : Suicide Commercial
Country : France
Year : 2011

Totally crazy Stoner metal to groove your head! Promising new band, don't miss them. LP limited to 150 copies, with an handmade serigraphied cover! Great object and great sound.

Rock
Label : Suicide Commercial
Country : France
Year : 2010

Quote from label: Powerful and intense Black Metal with some Thrash influences !

Black Metal
Label : Aura Mystique
Country : France
Year : 2003

Four tracks of merciless Black Trash

Black/Thrash Metal
Label : Forgotten Wisdom
Country : France
Year : 2012

Raw and desperate black metal. Limited to 500 copies.

Black Metal
Label : D.U.K.E.
Country : France
Year : 2010

2nd full length

Black Metal
Label : Black Pandemie Prod
Country : France
Year : 2017

Industrial Black Metal, recorded at Necromorbus in 2005. Really better than their first opus, with an interesting concept and Great Lyrics.

Black Metal
Label : End All Life
Country : France
Year : 2005

Metal

Metal
Label : Perennial Quest
Country : France

Satanic Death Metal.

Death Metal
Label : Akedia
Country : France
Year : 2005

French Black / Death Metal

Black/Death Metal
Label : Antinomie Productions
Country : France
Year : 2016

Excellent brutal Death Metal

Death Metal
Label : Ibex Moon
Country : France
Year : 2004

A jewel of Black Metal!

Deluxe edition comes in gatefold cardboard digifile cover.
Pressed on black polycarbonate discs.

Total running time: 31:26

Black Metal
Label : Debemur Morti
Country : France
Year : 2010

quote from label: Debut album from french sickos BOUNTY HUNTER.

After sharing stages with WALLS OF JERICHO, SOULFLY and many more famous acts, BOUNTY HUNTER is now unleashing its debut album containing 16 tracks of "Lorenzo Lamas Grind Core".

Grind
Label : Deadlight
Country : France
Year : 2011

Quote from label: "Extreme french medieval brutality, old school feeling for this duet".

Death Metal
Label : Antiq
Country : France
Year : 2015

Power Metal. Contain a cd-rom bonus track

Metal
Label : Thundering
Country : France

(Fra) - 1997 - Anti-easy listening Ambient/Ritual/Indus.

Indus
Label : Crowd Control
Country : France
Year : 1997

In English including interviews with:

LOBOTOMY (malaysia), CHAOTIC AEON (china), SATHANAS (usa), MGLA (poland), WATAIN (sweden), SAVAGE DEITY (thailand), DEATHRONER (canada), PERVERSIFIER (france), DEATHRAISER (brazil), RIOTOR (canada), ARACHNIDS (nepal) & GOATCHRIST666 (thailane).

Black/Death Metal
Country : France
Year : 2013

Thrash Black attack! 4 titles filled with the old school spirit,including a cover of "The Trooper" from IRON MAIDEN.

Black/Thrash Metal
Label : DUKE
Country : France
Year : 2009

French Grind Cult!
Track B3 is a Monster X cover.

Grind
Label : Panx
Country : France
Year : 1998

Grind Cult!

Grind
Label : Bizarre leprous
Country : France
Year : 1998

Excellent Old School Death Metal by Both Acts!
Limited to 500 Copies.

Death Metal
Label : Impious Desecration
Country : France
Year : 2014

Limited to 250 copies.

The whole discography of this infamous horde from France finally available on LP.
18 tracks gathering the various demos, split & eps, and unreleased tracks initially intended to appear on a split LP.
Unholy, Liturgical and Raw as Fuck BLACK METAL.

18 titres de Black Metal sous sa forme la plus pure. Un cantique au Diable aux antipodes de la dégénérescence actuelle de notre scène... Cette oeuvre regroupe tous les titres démos, splits, et eps, ainsi que des titres inédits, initialement prévu pour un split qui aurait du voir le jour sur format vinyle.

"ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO HATE LIFE"

Black Metal
Label : Projekt' Ill
Country : France
Year : 2014

comes in slipcase with gold ink - Raw Black Metal, includes 7 bonus tracks from a live in Holland (2002).

Black Metal
Label : Apparitia
Country : France
Year : 2008

Aristocratic Ethereal Black Metal - x2 Gatefold 12" LP - silver ink + UV lacquering.

Black Metal
Label : Apparitia
Country : France
Year : 2003

Quote from label: "Slipcase CD including 16pp booklet with lyrics & some exclusive pictures. This is a retrospective of CELESTIA's musical past with remastered sound. Including "A cave full of Bats" Mcd, "The Awakening of the Dormant Fiancée" Demo, "A Dying out of Ecstasy" Demo, also material from the split tape with EVIL(Bra) and other material recorded for the SABBAT LP tribute. - Apparitia Recordings Release."


Black Metal
Label : Apparitia
Country : France
Year : 2009

EP limited to 500 copies, very rare and rare to find. Collector item in very good condition!

Black Metal
Label : Drakkar
Country : France
Year : 2002

Quote from label: "French Black Metal - 4th & ultimate album from French Black Metal Horde - Cover art by David Thiérrée/ Dark Arts! w/ 12" 8 page Booklet"

Black Metal
Label : Drakkar
Country : France
Year : 2017

Quote from label: "Gatefold 2x12"LP with lyrics, some exclusive pictures & A2 poster. This is a retrospective of CELESTIA's musical past with remastered sound. Including "A cave full of Bats" Mcd, "The Awakening of the Dormant Fiancée" Demo, "A Dying out of Ecstasy" Demo, also material from the split tape with EVIL(Bra) and other material recorded for the SABBAT LP tribute. - Limited to 500 copies".

Black Metal
Label : Apparitia
Country : France
Year : 2009

DVD size DigiBook.

Black Metal
Label : Drakkar
Country : France
Year : 2017

Quote from label: "Over the last several years, France’s Cénotaphe have unassumingly become one of the most promising new voices in black metal. Operating as a duo—each member with a long and distinguished résumé trailing behind him—multi-instrumentalist Fog performs all of the music, while Khaosgott handles the vocals. The band’s auspicious prior releases (a demo from 2015 and the 2018 Horizons MLP, both on the Finnish label Kuunpalvelus) established a foundation for the band to build upon, and the result is the magnificent Empyrée MLP. In both content and spirit, Cénotaphe draws inspiration from a constellation of 19th century French literary and artistic figures, such as Aloysius Bertrand, Théophile Gautier, Charles Beaudelaire, and the painter, Odilon Redon. It is, however, the poet, Stéphane Mallarmé, who casts the longest shadow over the band. Mallarmé’s work is dense with inscrutable and tangled syntax, every poem an arcane cipher; however, despite his modern and unconventional style, Mallarmé tended to rely on stalwart and traditional poetic forms, like the sonnet. Within the framework of these rigid poetic structures, Mallarmé’s language was itself unconstrained, abstract, exquisitely lawless, but also excruciatingly methodical and intentional.
There is a similar sensibility to Cénotaphe’s work. Regarded from a distance, one might not notice the idiosyncratic details that permeate it because the band remains so true to the form and spirit of black metal. But ensconced within the traditional structure of Cénotaphe’s songs are fractured melodies, disharmonies, sowing atonal discord under the surface of the song, like a violent undertow beneath a seemingly serene sea. The songs on this MLP all have an epic quality to them, and yet, none clocks in at more than seven minutes. The grandiosity of the tracks derives from their strength of composition, not overindulgence. The riffs are expansive, stretching out across the roiling pulse of the drums. The vocals, delivered entirely in French, hang in suspended animation, puncturing the surface of the song at precise points. Occasionally, the band modifies its approach, fleshing out the sound with keyboard flourishes or other instrumentation, but noticeably eschewing the use of guitar solos, despite being clearly in possession of the necessary skill. Nothing feels unintentional about Empyrée; it is a highly sculpted aesthetic creation. The album closes with a curious climax, a track that perhaps offers additional clues about the band’s musical interests: a near-instrumental cover of “End of the World” by the 1960’s Greek prog pioneers, Aphrodite’s Child, known for being Vangelis’ first band. Beginning slow, much the same as the original, the song evolves and accelerates, deftly bringing the album to a frantic crescendo, punctuated with piano notes and wordless vocals. Tying the album together is the cover art, a piece from 1893 entitled “In the Dust Cloud” by the Polish symbolist painter Jacek Malczewski".

Black Metal
Label : Nuclear War Now!
Country : France
Year : 2019

Quote:
From the burning ashes of Hyadningar, please welcome the new Black Metal act Chaos Dei and its debut release "Arising From Chaos". Featuring Eurynome (the mastermind of Hyadningar) and Turannos (Hyandingar & Ataraxie), this French duo created an insane Black Metal strike of eight tracks. Complex and untypical song structures and unique bestial human vocals that is wrapped in an organic raw production. Almost an hour of a real black metal exception.

Black Metal
Label : Totalrust
Country : France
Year : 2012