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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Alcest are one of the best examples of black metal’s evolution as a genre, as artists continue to innovate within its binding framework. In regards to Alcest, the French band began as a more blasty ...

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

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 ...

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If you’ve been clamoring for French post-black metal outfit Alcest to make its way back to North America for the last few years, then boy do we have good news for you. Earlier today, the band revealed ...

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 ...

Alcest’s near-decade long run of formal releases combining black metal’s hoarse extremities with the majestic flow of goth and shoegaze guitar textures – all centered around singer/composer Neige’s ...

According to its founder and, for years, its sole studio member, Neige, Alcest have almost always made extremely personal music. Though he founded the band in 1999 and issued four rough-and-raw black ...