Both rock and metal have long been known for their abundance of sub-genres and amalgamative styles. Of these sub-genres, Blackgaze is of the more recent phenomenons that has slowly garnered a cult ...

Atmospheric black metal trailblazers Alcest have announced a new album, Les Chants De L’Aurore, due June 21 via Nuclear Blast. They’ve also shared lead single “L’Envol,” and here’s what band leader ...

For their painfully pretty new album, Shelter, Alcest left any traces of the metal elements that were once an integral part of the band’s black metal dreamscape sound at the studio door. The stylistic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alcest in 2019. Stéphane “Neige” Paut remembers what it was like before he was born. For his entire life, the French ...

The post Alcest’s Neige on Spiritual Instinct, Initial Black Metal Backlash, Deafheaven’s Rise, and More appeared first on Consequence of Sound. French atmospheric metal band Alcest have just released ...

For nearly fifteen years, French duo Alcest (percussionist Winterhalter and songwriter/vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Neige) have had one of the most distinctive ...

Tickets for the tour are currently available from https://linktr.ee/alcest_tour and are priced at €22 plus processing fees. The Devil's Trade to join Alcest on tour ...

After releasing the brand new song "Your Ghost Again," Mastodon have unveiled the Poisonous Weapons Tour, which will criss-cross the United States and Canada this fall with special guests Deafheaven ...

If you’ve been clamoring for French post-black metal outfit Alcest to make its way back to North America for the last few years, then boy do we have good news for you. Earlier today, the band revealed ...

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Alcest have announced their first North American tour in seven years. Next February and March, the French post-metal outfit will play 24 shows on the continent, with support from Iceland post-punks ...

According to its founder and, for years, its sole studio member, Neige, Alcest have almost always made extremely personal music. Though he founded the band in 1999 and issued four rough-and-raw black ...