French metal outlet Alcest is influential enough to lay claim to having started a subgenre of metal. And while it has toured the United States with increasing frequency during its 18 years as a band… ...

We mentioned that French shoegaze/maybe a little bit of black metal crew Alcest are working on their new album Kodama. They had already shared the beautiful first song “Oiesaux de Proie,” and now they ...

"There are no lyrics," Neige says of the gracefully savage track. "It's just vocal improvisation like Cocteau Twins or Dead Can Dance were doing... In the music of Alcest, beauty reigns above all.

You don’t necessarily have to be familiar with Princess Mononoke to fully appreciate the latest Alcest album, Kodama, but it doesn’t hurt. The French band’s LP takes its title from the tree spirits in ...

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 ...

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