Tag France
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 →
A band which suggests succession to bands such as Anorexia Nervosa, Emperor, Dissection and others is of interest to me. Deathcode Society is such a band. This album promises “a musical journey through …. this gloomy maze where psychosis, murderous… Continue Reading →
Back in 2017 I covered this French band’s debut album called ‘Century Of Decline’ and was impressed with its take on death metal where it incorporated a few other stylings to keep you on your toes, as only French extreme… Continue Reading →
Back with their third “painting” it’s time to dip into the still life tapestry of these six strange masked figures from France. The group impressed with last album ‘Vestige,’ the striking cover of that particular release being a portrait but… Continue Reading →
I adored this French duo’s debut album, ‘The Eternal Harvest’, released in February 2022 which I reviewed for the site back then, it was a superlative example of how to construct emotive atmospheric black metal but with abundant aggression. It… Continue Reading →
Not really knowing what “baroque black metal is”, I discovered early on that it is a turbulent and frantic adrenaline-related offering at least according to Sühnopfer who throw the kitchen sink at it with odd folksy touches, while adding some… Continue Reading →
Psygnosis have been prolific since starting out in 2009, releasing six albums including this one. Their style being described as “atmospheric extreme metal with hints of electronic music, the band comes from the French town of Mâcon, which for those… Continue Reading →
Blut Aus Nord are a progressive black metal troupe from the Normandy region of France. It began life in 1993 as a solo project of mainstay Vindsval, it has evolved over the decades to incorporate industrial and avantgarde elements. This… Continue Reading →