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The album cover looks misanthropic. The music sounds misanthropic. Please welcome Celeste, the most promising band of the young label Denovali. What to expect? An impressing and - above all - highly intense post hard-core flow mixed the pure heaviness of doom metal and black metalish vocals.

There is more going on with the vocals: pierced by melancholy and recognizable French they are the most special feature of the band's music. Fans of extreme intense vocals who really thought the vocals of Amenra's Colin Van Eeckhout were the only frightening ones in the cruel world of post metal are wrong. This is powerful and creepy.
The whole album stays in a quiet sober mood. No atmospheric parts, no keys, no clean vocals, no electronics, this is madness in its pureness. The flipside of this way of making music: the album sounds a bit the same during its fifty-one minutes. The guitars are dirty and raw and filled with a beautiful aggression. It is not morbid in its simple definition like dozens of black metal bands should do. For Celeste this morbidity can be beautifully extreme.
As Amenra's typical doom sound is also sometimes demonstrated there the best songs of the album. To give two examples : « Mais Quel Plaisir de Voir Cette Tête D'enfant Rougir et Suer » or « Une Insomnie Avec Qui Tout le Monde Voudrait Baiser ». Special attention for the song titles is also required. The band should provide some space for explanation.

This is definitely not a feel-good record. The fin de siècle feeling grows and grows during the album. At the end we are all crying on our knees and spitting all the dirt and misery out of our bodies, just as singer Johan demonstrated the past fifty-one minutes.

 

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AUTHOR: Messy Ass