GoatmasterGeneral

Hi @GoatmasterGeneral 🤘
Thanks for your long post! 👌
I don't know if all the bands from Eastern France are as pissed off as the 3 you posted, but you have to admit that for them, Germany isn't far away and when it comes to extreme metal, it's not a soft country over there 😅
Yes, I used to live in Paris, but now I live in the south-west of France. Bayonne is famous for its smoked hams, which are simply delicious. I didn't know about Jersey.
Where I live, in Charente-Maritime, we're best known for our Pineau (a liqueur wine drunk as an aperitif) and our galette charentaise (a shortcrust cake with pieces of angelica inside, a plant used to make candied fruit). And Bordeaux, with all its luscious wines, is just over 60 miles away.
My favorite French bands are few and far between, but I listen to them regularly: ADX (melodic speed), Daemonium/Akhenaton/Sangdragon (symphonic black, 3 bands but only one person behind the helm), Eros Necropsique (gothic without electric guitar, just vocals, bass and drums), Hexecutor (thrash), Kalisia (sci-fy metal, author of a magnificent album, Cybion, but very difficult to access), The Last Tomb (Coroner-style thrash), Les Enfants de Dagon (black), Les Vieilles Salopes (the old sluts, punk), Loudblast (a little), Massacra (death), Mercyless (Eastern death), Misanthrope, Nemo (aggressive prog rock), No Return (thrash/death), Paydretz (black), Sortilège (heavy), Undead Prophecies (old school death), Voight Kampff (thrash). Some of these bands no longer exist, but I like some of their records. Gojira isn't really my thing.
In the 80's, Metal in France was limited to a few bands and was considered as an old-fashioned music (even though the style was not so popular).
Now, the bands number in the thousands and the scene is not ridiculous.

Bon jour Ari. Every morning you come and I think maybe I should listen to some French bands. Never realized how many French metal bands there actually were 'til you showed up here. I've noticed tonight that all 3 of these bands are from various towns in the eastern part of France, not far from Switzerland. Would you say this is probably just a coincidence, or are the people from eastern French just more grindy for the most part? I know they have to grind the mustard to make dijon (the only type of mustard I'll eat) maybe that grinding mentality has spilled over into their music.
You're down in the southwest part of France near Bordeaux right? I love looking at European maps and seeing all the various names of places we've adopted here in America. I see you have a Bayonne over there in Aquitaine, we have one too right here in New Jersey, also a port city. And even "Jersey" is the name of a place in France. We're practically brothers!
It's funny my ex's father was French so she used to always ask if we could go to France one day. And I always told her no because I never had any desire to see France. We hear stories here in the states about how the French hate Americans because we come over there acting all loud and pompous and entitled and uncouth and idiotic and none of us speak a word of French, we just expect you guys to cater to us. Shit, I don't want to be one of those stupid Americans. I've always wanted to see Spain or Greece or Scandinavia or even the UK could be cool, but never France. But now that I've found all these French bands I've become a little bit curious about France. Not gonna ask my ex though, she got tired of waiting for me and finally made it to France with her sister a couple of years ago.
 
Chiens - Vultures Are Our Future, crust/grind from Nancy France
 
Warfuck - Diptyque, grindcore from Lyon France  2023
 
Whoresnation - Dearth, deathgrind from Besançon France 2022
 

Paradise Lost - Gothic (1991)
Fuck yeah!

Necrophobic - The Nocturnal Silence, Sweden 1993
 
Necrophobic - The Third Antichrist 1999
 

Dude this album is awesome, I fucking love it. And not just because big Ed and the boys are from Red Bank New Jersey. Although that helps, and Ed was after all a founding member of both The Atomic Bitchwax and Monster Magnet, two of my favorite non-extreme rock bands. Even though Ed only guests on three tracks here, it's still a good album, I'm sold. 
Solarized - Neanderthal Speedway, Red Bank NJ 1999
 
Unida - Coping With the Urban Coyote, another cool stoner rock album from 1999 in much the same vein, featuring John Garcia of Kyuss fame on vox. You're gonna get me on a whole stoner thing now.
 

Hekseblad - Kaer Morhen (2024)
Geralt of Riva roams the trails, holding his trusty Roach by the bridle. Below stands the imposing fortress of Kaer Morhen. Where witchers learn their hard trade of monster slaying.
Let the music begin!
Le Chant Noir - La société satanique des poétes morts (2021)
This Brazilian black metal album was a big hit when it was released. 3 years on, it's still as magical as ever.
Whiskey & Funeral - Thy Malignant (2024)
Italian Blackened Death Metal.
Master - Saints Dispelled (2024)
 

1000mods - Repeated Exposure to...   Greece 2016
 
Lee Van Cleef - Holy Smoke, Italy 2016
 
Weedcraft - Satan's Weedcraft Heavy Spliffs, Poland 2017. Everything you'd want in a stoner doom album.
 
Nebula/Lowrider Split, California/Sweden 1999. Mark if you like Fu Manchu you might like Nebula, formed by two guys after leaving Fu in '97.
 

Dude this album is awesome, I fucking love it. And not just because big Ed and the boys are from Red Bank New Jersey. Although that helps, and Ed was after all a founding member of both The Atomic Bitchwax and Monster Magnet, two of my favorite non-extreme rock bands. Even though Ed only guests on three tracks here, it's still a good album, I'm sold. 
Solarized - Neanderthal Speedway, Red Bank NJ 1999
 
Unida - Coping With the Urban Coyote, another cool stoner rock album from 1999 in much the same vein, featuring John Garcia of Kyuss fame on vox. You're gonna get me on a whole stoner thing now.
 

Necrophobic - The Nocturnal Silence, Sweden 1993
 
Necrophobic - The Third Antichrist 1999
 

Storm of the Light's Bane, 1995
 
Dawn - Slaughtersun (Crown of the Triarchy) Sweden 1998
 
Dawn - Nær Sólen Gar Niþer for Evogher, 1994
 
Unanimated - In Light of Darkness, Sweden 2009
 
Necrophobic - Hrimthursum, Sweden 2006
 

Storm of the Light's Bane, 1995
 
Dawn - Slaughtersun (Crown of the Triarchy) Sweden 1998
 
Dawn - Nær Sólen Gar Niþer for Evogher, 1994
 
Unanimated - In Light of Darkness, Sweden 2009
 
Necrophobic - Hrimthursum, Sweden 2006
 

Storm of the Light's Bane, 1995
 
Dawn - Slaughtersun (Crown of the Triarchy) Sweden 1998
 
Dawn - Nær Sólen Gar Niþer for Evogher, 1994
 
Unanimated - In Light of Darkness, Sweden 2009
 
Necrophobic - Hrimthursum, Sweden 2006
 

Havukruunu - Kelle Surut Soi, Finland 2017
 
Havukruunu - Havulinnaan, 2015
 

Havukruunu - Kelle Surut Soi, Finland 2017
 
Havukruunu - Havulinnaan, 2015
 

Hekseblad - Kaer Morhen (2024)
Initially attracted by the cover, with its tones strongly reminiscent of Emperor's In the Nightside Eclipse, the album's name drew my curiosity further: Kaer Mohren, the ruined fortress of the witchers in Andrzej Sapkowski's novels.
And then came the music. Epic, sometimes violent, I love the singing. As for the production, which is dry but leaves plenty of room for the instruments to express themselves, I can't fault it at all.
In short, having bought the album last night on a whim, this morning I'm listening to it!
 

Haha I was actually just having some fun with my Aussie forum mate, I know there are lots of chicks into heavy metal. Maybe not so much into some of the really raw shit I'm into, but certainly lots of chicks dig more accessible shit like Metal Church. Hell even I dig the first Metal Church album, consider it a classic, even if I've never liked anything else they've ever done in the 40 years since.
But I do enjoy cooking (gotta eat right?) and I love me some breasts of course (goes without saying) so I might check your vid out later for the breasts of fire. Speaking of cooking, it's 7:20 almost dinnertime here, so I should probably whip up something for the boy first before I start a 47 minute video. And if it makes you feel any better you'd definitely qualify as a chick to me, I'm sure I'm way older than you. I haven't met too many chicks in my age bracket who are into actual metal, even most of the dudes my age aren't into real metal.
But anyway welcome to our humble abode, and I hope you stick around for a bit. Everything's always more fun when there's a few women around. We don't usually get a ton of chicks in here sadly, save for the occasional angsty teenage chicks who'll wander in for a few days or a few weeks and then disappear again as quietly as they came. 

NP: Nightwalker - Grimoire Tenebrarum
▶︎ Nightwalker - Grimoire Tenebrarum | Amor Fati Productions (bandcamp.com)

 

NP: Obscurial - Heretic
▶︎ Heretic | Obscurial | Violence In The Veins (bandcamp.com)

Second full length from these death metal guys out of Malaysia. First track kicked in and I thought I was going to hate the guitar tone, and, while it is a little tinny, they manage well and get more than enough heaviness out of it. The musicianship isn't flashy, but the riffs and pacing changes are right on the sweet spot.

Let's go to listen some Black Metal tonight !
 

IGGY POP - I'm Bored
 

NP: Chainsword - Born Triumphant
▶︎ Born Triumphant | Chainsword (bandcamp.com)

Polish dm. The expected Bolt Thrower and Vader are in here along with a few tricks to vary things up. Otherwise the album knows what it is and fully embraces the idea that doing something unoriginal extremely well will always beat doing something original poorly. Fans on the subgenre, myself included, will enjoy.

SKALLAR - Skallar
ADIXION - Disfruta Tupa & Lang
 

Hekseblad - Kaer Morhen
 
Riitasointu - Pedon Leikki, Finland
 

Flammae - Hellfire, Polish black metal
 
Korgonthurus - Jumalhaaska, Finland 2023
 
Gonna need to see some video of your booty moving.

ZAO - A Well-Intentioned Virus