Tag France
Black verses and dark witchery are promised on the sixth album from French black death band ACOD. They have worked steadfastly since 2006 under the guise of founding duo Jérome and Fred, although only coming to my attention on recent… Continue Reading →
I’m sure that many of you out there follow this French label avidly such is its enduring quality and penchant for releasing wholly spellbinding and intriguing black metal releases. There are some labels, such as this one, where you could… Continue Reading →
‘Ekbom’ is the French band’s 10th album in 24 years and still rather visceral after all this time. Which is rather apt when you consider the syndrome the album is named after. While Fabien Desgardins may have departed since their… Continue Reading →
By Satan and all his agencies, this is a (great) beast of an album. Running just shy of an hour and hitting you like the last 5-minutes of Ben Wheatley’s Kill List, (what do you mean spoilers, it came out… Continue Reading →
When gravity fails you may well fall into an infinite abyss, can you do so gracefully though? The name Merrimack, I just discovered, comes from Graham Masterton’s novel Walkers and is that black void confronted in a tale of ancient… Continue Reading →
The French are revolting again but they do it so well! Griffon are back with their third album and here they set things out historically with bloody revolutions as a theme. This isn’t a call to arms or an album… Continue Reading →
With over two decades of misery behind them there are no expectations that Parisians Mourning Dawn will have found their happy place on album number six. They may have found some euphoria on the last one several years ago but… Continue Reading →
I’m always a sucker for “improvised electronic ambient sonicscapes” which is how this album is described. There are bands called Eventide from the USA and Sweden, but this one is a recent offshoot of the French progressive death doom band… Continue Reading →
Is a necro(w)retch the sound made by someone who has consumed too much corpse-flesh? Possibly, as considering three different writers have tackled their albums in the past, none of them have surprisingly come back for seconds. These ghoulish Gaul’s have… Continue Reading →
From the world of technical progressive metal come Exocrine with their sixth album. I know two of them, and recall that they manage the complexity very well. So I hoped for more of the same here. After easing us in,… Continue Reading →
Obviously intent on giving me a sound thrashing this is one of a couple of albums landing on the doormat here just before Xmas from Great Dane. Endbroken are a French quintet who are basically starting out having just released… Continue Reading →
Mathcore, Noise, Metal, Jazz? That’s the conundrum we are posed with on confronting this album by French instru(mentalists) Ni. Well to me it’s mathcore due to the fact that things never stand still for a second and the motion within… Continue Reading →