French post-rock royalty ALCEST will return to Damnation after almost a decade to play the main stage alongside Mayhem and Opeth.
The duo will be joined by New York heavy rock outfit A PALE HORSE NAMED DEATH, fans’ favourites RAGING SPEEDHORN and Norwegian black metallers MORK at Leeds University Union on Saturday, November 2.
Alcest, who played the third stage of the festival back in 2010, said: “We are really...
ALCEST have signed to Nuclear Blast Records and are currently working on their 6th, as of yet untitled, studio album.
Founded in 2000 by songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Neige and joined by drummer Winterhalter in 2009, ALCEST have become the pioneers of blackgaze, a unique and virtuosic mixture of post (black) metal and shoegaze. With a dreamy, otherworldly sound full of contrasts mixing rough darkness and soft melodies, the band forged...
"Kodama" the fifth album from Blackgaze pioneers, Alcest, marks the French duo's ferocious return to the stylistic maximalism of its early albums while continuing the band's relentless pursuit for new sounds and fresh ideas.
"Kodama" is the Japanese word for 'tree spirit' and 'echo' and from the album's structure and dynamics to its cinematic sound, "Kodama" indeed 'echoes' Alcest's 2010 classic, "Écailles De Lune". But this is no simple back-to-the-roots...
