The art school discovered doom metal decades ago. Soundgarden started it in the late 1980s, and Neurosis invented a genre out of it. Today, Italian quartet Messa are its modern…
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There’s much talk about modern black metal artists avoiding nostalgia. We’ve seen this in the rise of blackgaze and the emergence of post-black metal, most of which comes from France.…
French avant-gardists, Non Serviam, are conscious of being original. Sometimes artists are original without trying too hard or over-analysing everything they do. This is not the case with Non Serviam.…
Thompson Twins changed their name to Babble in 1993 to move away from their synth-pop identity. Seldom does this happen in rock or metal with the most notable exception being…
French trio, Aephanemer, are a group with a lot of promise and a lot of good will from those cheering them on from the sides. ‘The orchestral dramatics take centre…
Gautier Serre celebrates the twentieth year of his Igorrr project with album number five, and he’s come a long way in that time. Would he have foreseen a future as…
‘If you didn’t know the musical background of the protagonists involved, you’d assume ten56 are a bunch of thugs playing deathcore binary riffs and listening to Prodigy records,’ said Scream…
French multi-instrumentalist, Jérémie V. Griseval, created Sombretour to balance his love of atmospheric black metal, death metal, and the shoegaze variation of alternative rock. This has preoccupied many musicians looking…
Impureza are sometimes called the Nile of French metal due to their identity as a band with a singular theme that defines them. In this case, it’s the culture and…