Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alcest in 2019. Stéphane “Neige” Paut remembers what it was like before he was born. For his entire life, the French ...

The post Alcest’s Neige on Spiritual Instinct, Initial Black Metal Backlash, Deafheaven’s Rise, and More appeared first on Consequence of Sound. French atmospheric metal band Alcest have just released ...

Atmospheric black metal trailblazers Alcest have announced a new album, Les Chants De L’Aurore, due June 21 via Nuclear Blast. They’ve also shared lead single “L’Envol,” and here’s what band leader ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Quentin Singer is music journalist who covers rock and heavy music. Both rock and metal have long been known for their abundance ...

Beloved Netherlands heavy music festival Roadburn had to go virtual in 2021 but it’s set to return in person in 2022 from April 21-24. The 2022 curators are Milena Eva and Thomas Sciarone of Dutch ...

Walking on sunshine is a pretty trippy concept when you think about it. Like a lot of happy tunes, the Katrina and the Waves classic is very straightforward musically. But there's often something ...

The Elon Musk administration seems intent on plunging us into a terrifyingly bleak future, so it’s easy to imagine a time when international artists stop wanting to play on American stages—or simply ...

While critics have often stated that French ambient metal/romancecore band Alcest's music is based on an internal or introspective journey, singer/founding member Neige recently shed some light on ...

Look, under normal circumstances, new music from Alcest would be my cue to write a 5,000-word essay, but I'm crunched for time at this particular moment (have to finish an unrelated 5,000-word essay ...

Écailles de Lune, the second LP from romantic black metallurgists Alcest, is the most fully realized effort to date from its frontman and lone constant Neige. The spindly Frenchman has been a member ...

For nearly fifteen years, French duo Alcest (percussionist Winterhalter and songwriter/vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Neige) have had one of the most distinctive ...

Tickets for the tour are currently available from https://linktr.ee/alcest_tour and are priced at €22 plus processing fees. The Devil's Trade to join Alcest on tour ...