Arioch

G.B.H - City Baby Attacked by Rats (1982)

Venom - Welcome to Hell (1981)

Scorpions - Animal Magnetism (1980)

Hekseblad - Kaer Morhen (2024)

Sorry if you've been seeing this album regularly since the beginning of the week. But when I like an album, one listen isn't enough 😁 I could avoid posting an album I listen to regularly so as not to annoy anyone, but I've decided to really post everything I listen to. Absolutely everything.

Ihsahn - Ihsahn (2024)

Agent Steel - No Other Godz Before Me (2021)

It feels like many years have passed for John Cyriis. If he still knows how to hit the high notes as he did in the days of Skeptics Apocalypse, it's clear that he has to work hard to do so.

The music behind it is still well-crafted melodic speed.

Atrocity - Unspoken Names (Demo 1991) (2022)

Megadeth - The Sick, the Dying... and the Dead! (2022)

Krisiun - Mortem Solis (2022)

Les Enfants de Dagon - De Profundis (2022)

51 minutes ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

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.

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.

The Boneless Ones - Back To The Grind (2022)

Catacomb - When the Stars are Right (2023)

Seven Doors - Feast of the Repulsive Dead (2023)

Old-school British death metal with a horror-movie vibe.

XenotronE - Queen of the Night (EP) (2023)

Ukrainian Thrash Metal.

Tetragammacide - Typho-Tantric Aphorisms From The Arachneophidian Qur'an (2023)

Indian Black/Death Metal.

Incantation - Unholy Deification (2023)

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)

Hekseblad - Kaer Morhen (2024)

Forbidden - Twisted into Form (1990)

Exodus - Tempo of the Damned (2004)

Embrional - Evil Dead (2019)

Hellish - The Dance of the Four Elemental Serpents (2022)

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!

Let's go to listen some Black Metal tonight !

Mekong Delta - Tales of a Future Past (2020)

Skyclad - A Burnt Offering for the Bone Idol (1992)

Nemedian Chronicles - The Savage Sword (2024)

French Power Epic Heavy Metal band. With influences as diverse as Blind Guardian, Manowar, Rhapsody, Manilla Road or Iron Maiden.

Nemedian Chronicles is all about Robert E.Howard's Conan the Barbarian stories.

This kind of music is not normally my cup of tea. But I decided to listen to the album this morning to get an idea.

Edit : Okay, it's still not my cup of tea. After a long, epic introduction reminiscent of Rhapsody with a pinch of Blind Guardian, here comes the second track, and from the very first seconds, I already know I'm not going to like it. Well, I won't insist and move on, but I'll leave it here in case there are any fans.

Arsena - Blood Rusted Mother Earth (2022)

American Thrash Metal in the place !