The vast majority of the interesting metal in the last decade has hailed from France. This is yet another treatise on loss, inner turmoil, and existential struggle, however for all its navel gazing woe, it is done really well. A maelstrom of up-tempo noise, they create spiralling waves of sound that cocoon the listener. Its beauty is how the instruments entwine to create a result that is far more than the sum of its parts. An inspired descent into the battered human spirit.

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