Tag France
This is the first time I’ve heard Fleshdoll – a French death metal crew from Toulouse. This is their fourth full length and on the strength of it I’m defo gonna be checking out their back catalogue. This is ten… Continue Reading →
Verlies is black metal band from France with their debut album. Yes but there is so much more to this than you might expect from such a simple sentence. Naiwan or N from Lille in France has been involved in… Continue Reading →
Hailing from Lille, France, Glowsun are a psychedelic stoner rock trio who are predominantly an instrumental band. Opting to allow the music to be the main focus, the lack of vocals really helps set the trio apart as they sling… Continue Reading →
Never judge a book by its cover. Three French men dressed as ladies with punk hair styles, a Union Jack and a picture of Big Ben present a mixed scene. At one point there’s a drunken rendition of the Beatles’s… Continue Reading →
Hailing from the Côtes-d’Armor region of Brittany in North Western France, Death Metal five piece Livhzuena have a real hard hitting sound. Formed in 2011 and having one EP released in 2013, the five piece have just recently released their… Continue Reading →
There is no genre quite so difficult to nail as Progressive Death Metal. There is a fine art to striking that perfect balance between thunderous, crushing grooves and keeping the listener perpetually wondering what they’re going to hear next. Thankfully,… Continue Reading →
With bands who I never knew existed, my default reaction is to scan The Metal Archives for insight. In the case of France’s Absconditus, however, the unusually sparse promotional notes with ‘Kατάβασις’ turned out to be as good as it… Continue Reading →
It was two years ago that the French black metal entity Mortis Mutilati released its second album of crypt dwelling black metal. Inspired by cemeteries, death and the stories of Edgar Allan Poe, ‘Nameless Here for Evermore’ was an unsurprisingly… Continue Reading →
Can Of Worms, from Bayonne, France are a four piece who blend thrash metal and death metal and are currently on album #2 – “Kult of Nuke”. The French thrash death outfit promise a healthy dose of what they describe… Continue Reading →
Even we, the chosen few, the metal fans of dark, extreme material, even we still sometimes stop and wonder what on earth that racket is coming from the stereo. If only for a few seconds, at least. And so ‘twas… Continue Reading →
“Membrane make a living from working with noise”. And some noise it is. The French band’s fifth album is not the sort of ambient soundscape where figures emerge unexpectedly out of gloomy shadows, but a crashing world of reverberating sounds,… Continue Reading →
Chaos Echoes are an intriguing prospect; experimental, esoteric doom/death with members from brutallists Bloody Sign. It’s probably not a coincidence that the band’s name is the same as the very last Bloody Sign release… This band is, however, a completely… Continue Reading →