France

France-based blackened doom industrialists Wolok punish all in their wake with new album, The Bilious Hues Of Gloom. Streaming now!

French heavy metallers Animalize lick it up on new album Meat We’re Made Of. Full album stream in chainsaws, spandex and chiffon only at Decibel!

French black metallers Svart Crown re-think their formula on new EP Les Terres Brûlées. Madman JB Le Bail sets the tone.

French death dealers Viande reach into the darkness for new track “Le Souffle Des Os.”

Esoctrilihum mastermind Asthâghul invites us into his occult domain. A riveting conversation with Asthâghul about all things Esoctrilihum.

New French & Siberian trio Isgherurd Morth shred an innovative and most strange black metal on their debut full-length. Hear Hellrduk in full now before its release Friday.

French thrashers Hexecutor murder the front row with new album, Beyond Any Human Conception of Knowledge… Streaming in full at Decibel!

Listen to a new track from French rockers, Watertank!

Check out this exclusive premiere of the furious and unorthodox fouth album from French black metalists Neige Morte.

This week Demo:listen encounters unprecedented hostility from a French black metal duo calling themselves Kriegsgraben.

This week Demo:listen opens the gates to France’s traditional heavy metal troops Meurtrières.

French black death bedlamites Hexekration Rites will soon deliver their new EP, Desekration Manifesto. Hear it all right now.

French black metallers Tan Kozh, featuring members of Himinbjorg and Les Chants de Nihil, fire off, “A la Gloire d’Indra,” from new album, Lignages Oubliés.

A curation of early material from the vampyric French plague Darvulia will soon be available on 12” vinyl. Hear the compilation in its accursed entirety now.

Alcest’s Neige opens up to Decibel about the group’s latest album, Spiritual Intent, and the drivers behind its music and message.

Gravefields keep it fresh while staying death.

French black-death maniacs Vortex Of End unfurl new track “Voraciovs Egregore” off new album, Ardens Fvror, for storied indie Osmose Productions.

Cult French black metallers Gorgon return after a 19-year absence with new track “Buried for Him,” off new album “The Veil of Darkness.”

Carpenter Brut’s Franck Hueso slashes synthwave on new album, “Leather Teeth.”

Stream the new album from suffocating death metal unit Autokrator.

Next week sees the release of The Apostates, the seventh album by Parisian black metal shapeshifters, Glorior Belli, a band with a history reaching back over 15 years when they came to life as a Norwegian worshipping whirlwind. With time has come change as band leader Billy Bayou – also known by the less swampy…

Digging up France’s grindiest bands.

Stream the first single from French black metal horde Abduction‘s new album.

French synthwave specialist Dan Terminus talks gear, popularity, and new album Automated Refrains.

Soror Dolorosa’s Andy Julia talks travel, black metal, and new album Apollo

Necrowretch deliver the first ripping song off of Satanic Slavery, their newly-announced full-length. 

Very little is funny about Aum and their heady/dirty death offensive, Om Ah Hum Vajra Guru Padma Siddhi Hum, but get your ears on this if you like dense, ugly destruction that also finds time to paint with a little light.

French soul-threateners Aum will release their highly destructive (and equally esoteric) force, debut record Om Ah Hum Vajra Guru Padma Siddhi Hum, this Friday on Iron Bonehead.  We asked the band some questions, and we got some enthusiastic and thoughtful responses.  Read up on Aum’s focus and vision right here.

Glorior Belli‘s flipped black metal’s atavistic script not once but six times since forming in 2002. Leader and intrepid boundary breaker Billy Bayou (notice it’s not stolen from Tolkien) has taken Glorior Belli into the bowels of Satan’s celestial abyss and back, with such notable releases as Manifesting the Raging Beast and The Great Southern Darkness serving as Bayou’s malign vehicle. Decibel is darkly pleased to present brand new Glorior Belli track, “Satanists Out Of Cosmic Jail”, from new album, Sundown (The Flock That Welcomes), along with a few Qs answered by Bayou from his throne atop the blackest black.

Early in 2014, your friends at the Deciblog premiered the self-titled full length from the French sludge metal band Drawers (yes, this is a real thing). My cohort Jonathan Horsley described it as “a heavy album, weighty enough to compromise the lumbar but not quite enough to crush the spirit; shit, it’s heavy and gentle,…