Following an extensive festival season last year and having just wrapped a South American tour, the French post black metal two-piece ALCEST have taken some time to reflect on their rich past as one of the world’s most visionary metal acts. Today, the band are proud to announce their "Ecailles De Lune 10th Anniversary Tour", which had previously been postponed several times. ALCEST’s second studio album was released in March 2010 to widespread acclaim, and the tour will honour this milestone in their impressive discography has been postponed several times. 2023 will finally see the band on tour celebrating Ecailles De Lune alongside their special guests The Devil's Trade.
Neige states: "After the success of our Bataclan show in Paris for the anniversary of Ecailles de Lune we decided to make it a proper tour all over Europe. We can’t wait to play this album for you in its entirety plus selected tracks from all our other albums!
We are really excited to announce this anniversary Ecailles de Lune tour in Europe along with The Devil’s Trade. We can’t wait to play for you the songs of this album, which is very special to us, as well as others from the rest of our discography."
Together with the announcement, ALCEST shared a video portrait today, lifting the veil to give the public a deeper insight into the thoughts and motivation of an outstanding musician. You can find the video here: https://youtu.be/T1l99owJjU8
Catch this package on of these dates:
- 29.09. FR Metz, La Bam
- 30.09. BE Bruges, Cactus Club
- 01.10. DE Hamburg, Knust
- 03.10. DK Copenhagen, Lille Vega
- 04.10. NO Oslo, Parkteatret
- 05.10. SE Stockholm, Fryhuset Klubben
- 07.10. DE Dresden, Reithalle
- 08.10. PL Poznan, 2Progi
- 09.10. PL Wroclaw, Stary Klasztor
- 10.10. DE Hannover, Musikzentrum
- 11.10. DE Frankfurt, Zoom
- 13.10. NL Nijmegen, Soulcrusher
- 14.10. FR Lille, L’Aeronef
- 15.10. UK Manchester, Academy 2
- 16.10. UK Bristol, SWX
- 17.10. UK Brighton, Concorde 2
- 19.10. FR Vaureal, Le Forum
- 20.10. FR St Nazaire, Le VIP
- 21.10. FR Rouen, Le 106
- 22.10. FR Savigny-Le-Temple, L’Empreinte
The tickets are now on sale, get them here: https://linktr.ee/alcest_tour
About ALCEST:
For principal songwriter and frontman Neige, ALCEST has always been a gateway to the otherworldly, a means of exploring his spirituality. An elemental two-piece, completed by long-serving drummer and creative confidante Winterhalter, ALCEST seem to dip their toes in a multitude of musical genres without ever quite fitting in. “In the metal scene ALCEST is a weird band, in the indie/post-rock scene ALCEST is a weird band- we never quite fit in,” Neige reflects. “This is how I feel in life, always an outsider; It’s not a problem, it’s just the way it is.”
The band released their last album Spiritual Instinct in October 2019, a soul-gripping masterpiece whose successor is already in the making.