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This eccentric French artist achieves an almighty power with latest release "Couvre-sang" -- on waves of industrial nightscapes, we're floating swimmingly with this atmospheric new song.

Our favorite music videos contain nothing but the band, the crowd, and the song -- here, we've got the epic closing track from French trio Slift's latest album "Ummon" captured in such a fashion. Super-heavy psych-rock content inside.

Madness in atmospheric black metal form. Listen to an exclusive stream of the band's debut album.

Though they have shed their black and death metal trappings, the spirit remains the same. Listen to a new single from the upcoming "IIII".

We interviewed numerous bands from blackgaze and beyond (incl. Unreqvited, Sivyj Yar, and more) about Alcest's seminal second album “Écailles de Lune" -- released ten years ago today, it stands now as a genre-defining landmark influential to so many.

Abject terror in jagged black metal form.

We dig into "Ÿ," the latest hyper-idiosyncratic work of French avant-garde doom outfit Öxxö Xööx, to unpack its esoteric array of sounds and effects.

The "acoustic" black metal troubadour reissues Grylle's second album with ten minutes of bonus material, which can be streamed here.

The surprising new face of the long-standing French weirdo black metal group will turn heads.

We make a non-judgmental slice in the difference between "tech-death" and technical death metal while showcasing the latter -- French outfit Chaos Motion's dizzying debut full-length is out in October, and we have a new single now.