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Le Secret - Alcest
Description: Artist: Alcest / Genre: Metal / Release Year: 2005. Newest Review: ... one last time before they vanished completely for the subsequent album. The contrast is enjoyable, and makes both songs stand ... more  ... apart even further despite their obvious similarities, the latter generally taking on a more traditional black metal style shifted into major keys and with a large sprinkling of fairy dust.
Alcest's lyrics, all written in French (and in the case of the second song, taken entirely from a poem by Charles Baudelaire), are aimed at evoking the atmosphere and mood of Neige's childhood fantasy realm the "fairy land" to which we are all invited as a temporary escape from harsh Avignon reality, an image that the...more |
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Le Secret - Alcest: Welcome to Fairy Land (992 words)
by Frankingsteins - written on 16.12.07 (Very useful, 75 readings)
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Alcest has certainly been one of the most significant and talked-about extreme metal acts of 2007, surprisingly for being so non-extreme. Neige's nostalgic one-man project finally released its first full-length 'Souvenirs d'un autre monde' in August to an overwhelmingly positive response, mainly from those who had downloaded the leak months earlier, completing the transition from a minimalist black metal band with a rubbish demo into a soaring, escapist, optimistic blending of French black metal and British shoegaze that leans significantly towards the latter and is hardly recognisable as metal at all. While it's certainly distinctive, I found the deviation away from ...
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