French black metal has always been full of conceptual weirdness that pushes at the genre’s narrow boundaries. The experimental tendencies of Deathspell…
Alcest – Les Voyages de l’Âme (2012)
Solstafir – Svartir Sandar (2011)
Usually billed as post-metal or post-black metal just for lack of a better moniker, Iceland’s Solstafir are a beast of their own…
Solefald – Norrøn Livskunst (2011)
With “Norrøn livskunst”, SOLEFALD looks to the early 1900-century Norway, when a young nation zealously engaged in exploring its…
Alcest – Écailles de Lune (2010)
If any proof were needed that anticipation was at a fever pitch for Alcest’s second full-length album, it could be found in the fact that a clever leak of Écailles de Lune…