Parutions d’albums metal : 30 avril 2021

by | Avr 30, 2021 | Chroniques, Parutions d'albums metal

Le vendredi c’est la journée des sorties d’albums, alors sur Ondes Chocs, on vous rassemble au même endroit tout ce qu’on connait comme parutions metal pour votre plaisir auditif. Voici donc quelques vidéos / lecteurs audio intégrés, puis une liste plus complète en dessous. Bonne écoute!

Friday is the day of album releases, so on Ondes Chocs, we gather in the same place all the metal releases we know about, for your listening pleasure. Here is some videos and audio players, then a more complete list below. Enjoy!

 

Voir sous les vidéos pour la liste complète.

Gojira – Fortitude
https://gojira.lnk.to/fortitude

Serj Tankian – Rumi
https://serjtankian.lnk.to/EPElasticity

Oceans – We Are Not Okay
https://oceans.bfan.link/we-are-not-okay

Tetrarch – Unstable
https://smarturl.it/Tetrarch-Unstable

Vreid – Wild North West
https://shopusa.season-of-mist.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=vreid

EVILE – Hell Unleashed
https://smarturl.it/HellUnleashed

Bloody Hell – Lifeblood

As We Suffer – The Fallen Pillars
https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/aswesuffer/the-fallen-pillars

Stone Healer – Conquistador

Liste

Artiste / Album / Label

Alchemia / Inception / Wormholedeath
Animal Schoolbus / Going To Grammy’s House 2021 / Lawnmowerjetpack
Arched Fire / Remote Control / Wormholedeath
Aschenvater / Landungfeldmassaker EP / Dead Center
As We Suffer / The Fallen Pillars / Independant
Autarcie / Apogee.Ivresse.Agonie / Purity Through Fire
Becerus / Homo Homini Brutus / Everlasting Spew
Before We Fall / Healed By Fear EP / Inverse
Bloody Hell / The Bloodening / Rockshots
Brian Island / Brian Island / AOR Heaven
Bunker 66 / Beyond The Help Of Prayers / Dying Victims
Clouds / Doliu Re-Release / Personal
Dark / Inside The Void EP / Independant
Dead By Design / Into The Night EP / Independant
Demons / Privation / Spartan
Destruction / Bestial Invasion Of Hell Re-Release / High Roller
Devoured / The Curse Of Sabda Palon / Vrykoblast
Discarded Self / Discarded Self / Sarcophagus
Domkraft / Seeds / Magnetic Eye
Dreams In Fragments / When Echoes Fade / Boersma
Dukov / Death Is OK EP / HPGD
Electric Boys / Ups!de Down / Mighty
Electromancy / Robot Black Metal EP / Independant
Escape / Fire In The Sky / AOR Heaven
Evile / Hell Unleashed / Napalm
Ewig Frost / Ain’t No Saint / Discos Macarras
FarCry / Balance / AOR Heaven
From The Abyss / Chaos Supremacy / Vrykoblast
Fyrnask / VII / Kenoma / Van
Genune / Inert & Unerring / Loud Rage
Gojira / Fortitude / Roadrunner
Goregang / Long Live The Grime EP / Blood Blast
Hammerhedd / Grand Currents / Independant
Ifrinn / Caledonian Black Magick EP / The Sinister Flame
Indelible / Bond In Blood EP / Wreckin’ Joint
Insane / Victims / Dying Victims
Last Hyena / How Soon Is Mars / Stereobrain
Lost At Sea / Motion Sickness / Revival
Lost Relics / Now We’re Even EP / Golden Robot
Lucifuge / Infernal Power / Dying Victims
Meridian Dawn / The Pagan Poetry EP / Seeing Red
Moon Fever / Payphone Blues EP / Independant
MP / Get It Now Re-Release / Relics From The Crypt
Mustasch / A Final Warning / Chapter 1 / Tritonus
Nattverd / Vandring / Osmose
Nekromantheon / Visions Of Trismegistos / Hells Headbangers/Indie
Nuclear Revenge / Dawn Of The Primitive Age / Awakening
Oceans / We Are Not Okay EP / Nuclear Blast
Ophiuchi / Shibboleth / Optogram
Order Of The Wolf/Pessimista / Split / Trepnation
Oryx / Lamenting A Dead World / Translation Loss
Pain Of Salvation / 12:5 Re-Release / InsideOut
Pain Of Salvation / BE Re-Release / InsideOut
Perilaxe Occlusion / Exponential Decay EP / Blood Harvest
Pig Destroyer / Pornographers Of Sound: Live In NYC / Relapse
The Plague / Within Death / Bitter Loss
Plasmodium / Towers Of Silence / Transcending Obscurity
Poverty’s No Crime / A Secret To Hide / Metalville
Residual Self / Revenge / Sliptrick
Ritual / Valley Of The Kings Re-Release / High Roller
Royal Blood / Typhoons / Warner
Silent Verdict / Condemned / Wormholedeath
Slice Of Sorrow / Egothrone / Metal Carnival
Sonic Desolution / Explorer / GMR
Stone Healer / Conquistador / Independant
Stormwind / Rising Symphony Re-Release / Black Lodge
Sutura / Dawn Of Cursed Souls / Awakening
Temtris / Ritual Warfare / Wormholedeath
Tetrarch / Unstable / Napalm
Thirsty Demon / Unconscious Suicide / Awakening
Touch / Tomorrow Never Comes / Deko
The Undertaking / Funeral Psalms / Solid State
Ungfell / Es Grauet / Eisenwald
Universally Estranged / Reared Up In Spectral Predation / Blood Harvest
Viking / Do Or Die Re-Release / High Roller
Vreid / Wild North West / Season Of Mist
Warish / Next To Pay / RidingEasy
Yarima / The Strings Of Fate / LovAnaverse
Yellowtooth / The Burning Illusion / Orchestrated Misery

Parutions d’albums metal : 19 mars 2021

by | Mar 22, 2021 | Parutions d'albums metal

Le vendredi c’est la journée des sorties d’albums, alors sur Ondes Chocs, on vous rassemble au même endroit tout ce qu’on connait comme parutions metal pour votre plaisir auditif. Voici donc quelques vidéos / lecteurs audio intégrés, puis une liste plus complète en dessous. Bonne écoute!

Friday is the day of album releases, so on Ondes Chocs, we gather in the same place all the metal releases we know about, for your listening pleasure. Here is some videos and audio players, then a more complete list below. Enjoy!

Serj Tankian – Elasticity
https://serjtankian.lnk.to/EPElasticity

Devin Townsend – Devolution Series #1 – Acoustically Inclined, Live In Leeds
https://devin-townsend.lnk.to/DevolutionSeriesOne-LiveInLeedsID

Depths Of Hatred – Inheritance
Prosthetic Records
Album complet : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxTqI566Dxk
https://smarturl.it/DepthsofHatred

Enforcer – Live By Fire II
Nuclear Blast Records

Trollfest – Happy Heroes
Napalm Records

ERRA – ERRA
https://unfd.lnk.to/ERRA

Distant – Dusk Of Anguish
Unique Leader Records
EP complet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0j1LRLghWRY
https://orcd.co/duskofanguish

DVNE – Eternen Aenka
Metal Blade Records
https://orcd.co/dvne-etemen

Fuath – II
Season of Mist
https://shopusa.season-of-mist.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=fuath

Liste

Artiste / Album / Label

Adamantis / Far Flung Realm / Cruz Del Sur
Agent Steel / No Other Godz Before Me / Dissonance
Ainur / War Of The Jewels / Rockshots
Amammoth / The Fire Above / Electric Valley
Aversed / Impermanent / Self
Caged / Stricken By Continuance Re-Release / Cursed Monk
Capital Vices / Zenith EP / Self
Cicadastone / Cold Chamber / Golden Robot
Clouds Taste Satanic / Cloud Covered / Kinda Like
Cosmic Reaper / Cosmic Reaper / Heavy Psych Sounds
Dead Sun / Night Terrors / Xtreem
Depths Of Hatred / Inheritance / Prosthetic
Devin Townsend / Devolution Series #1 – Acoustically Inclined, Live In Leeds / InsideOut
Distant / Dusk Of Anguish EP / Unique Leader
Dvne / Eternen Aenka / Metal Blade
Ego Kill Talent / The Dance Between Extremes EP / Self
Egor Lappo / Tranevoicer / Self
Embryonic Slumber / In Worship Our Blood Is Buried / Werewolf
Enforcer / Live By Fire II / Nuclear Blast
Erra / Erra / UNFD
Estuarine / Nyarlathotep / Self
Everture / Emerge / Inverse
Feculent / The Grotesque Arena / Brilliant Emperor
Fuath / II / Season Of Mist
Fullmane / Lurking In The Dark / Sliptrick
Gate Doors / All Our Sins / Wormholedeath
Godsend / In The Electric Mist Re-Release / Petrichor
Golden Rusk / Ouroboros / Volcano
Herzel / Le Dernier Rempart / Gates Of Hell
Hevilan / Symphony Of Good And Evil / Brutal
Ildaruni / Beyond Unseen Gateways / Black Lion
Introspect / Midnight Sun EP / Self
Kankar / Dunkle Millennia / Eisenwald
Kaschalot / Zenith / Atypeek/Stargazed
Landmvrks / Lost In The Waves / Arising Empire
Lunar Shadow / Wish To Leave / Cruz Del Sur
Machinist/Dead Hand / Split EP / Nefarious
Mal / Forma Vil EP / Vicious Instinct
Manslaughter 777 / World Vision Perfect Harmony / Thrill Jockey
Manuel Barbara / Moonrise / Self
Mare Cognitum / Solar Paroxysm / I, Voidhanger
May The Tempest / Rise To Remain / Self
Midnight Odyssey / Biolume Part 2: The Golden Orb / I, Voidhanger
MWWB / The Harvest / New Heavy Sounds
Nine Treasures / Awakening From Dukkha / Self
The Noctambulant / Hellrazor / Self
Nuns Of The Tundra / Low EP / Self
Olde / Pilgrimage / Seeing Red/Sludgelord
Papa Roach / Greatest Hits Vol.2 – The Better Noise Years / Better Noise
Phallosopher / – (I) / Inverse
Riah/Postvorta / Riahpstvrt Split / Trepnation
Saxon / Inspirations / Silver Lining
Serj Tankian / Elasticity EP / Alchemy
Seraph In Travail / A Black Death Incense / Self
Shadow People / Batom Rouge/Washing In Soap Opera / Forbidden Place
Shiny Daggers / Devil Inside EP / Emanzipation
Slope / Street Heat / BDHW
Stearica / Golem 202020 / Monotreme
Stormwind / Reflections Re-Release / Black Lodge
Sundrowned / Become Ethereal / Fysisk Format
Taake/Helheim / Henholdsvis Split EP / Dark Essence
Terrorential / Visions / Self
Trollfest / Happy Heroes EP / Napalm
Turris Eburnea / Turris Eburnea / Everlasting Spew
U.D.O. / Live In Bulgaria CD/DVD / AFM
Ulthima / Symphony Of The Night / Inverse
Wharflurch / Shitslime EP / Personal

Parutions d’albums metal : 12 mars 2021

by | Mar 12, 2021 | Chroniques, Parutions d'albums metal

Le vendredi c’est la journée des sorties d’albums, alors sur Ondes Chocs, on vous rassemble au même endroit tout ce qu’on connait comme parutions metal pour votre plaisir auditif. Voici donc quelques vidéos / lecteurs audio intégrés, puis une liste plus complète en dessous. Bonne écoute!

Friday is the day of album releases, so on Ondes Chocs, we gather in the same place all the metal releases we know about, for your listening pleasure. Here is some videos and audio players, then a more complete list below. Enjoy!

Stortregn – Impermanence
The Artisan Era
https://www.theartisanerastore.com/category/stortregn

Rob Zombie – The Lunar Injection Kool Aid Eclipse Conspiracy
Nuclear Blast
https://robzombie.com/lunar-injection

Eyehategod – A History Of Nomadic Behavior
Album complet : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDqPusLOYcs&list=PLBzBwYhHpqLKm2mM7CdfcBtGO3kC7pSDe

Autarkh – Form in Motion

Pupil Slicer – Mirrors
https://smarturl.it/PupilSlicer

Enforced – Kill Grid

The Crown – Royal Destroyer
Album complet : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVHmYdDeblM&list=PLBzBwYhHpqLI55oHjYDwpi7-jtZURHOLe

Heleven – Into the Oceans
Album complet : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbfIqcAsPt8

Sleepless – Blood Libel

WitchTit – Intoxicating Lethargy
Album complet : https://witchtit.bandcamp.com/album/intoxicating-lethargy


Varmia – bal Lada
Album complet : https://varmiaband.bandcamp.com/album/bal-lada

SEPULCROS – Vazio
Album complet : https://sepulcrosdoom.bandcamp.com/album/vazio-atmospheric-death-doom-metal

Liste

Artiste / Album / Label

Acid Mammoth / Acid Mammoth Re-Release / Heavy Psych Sounds
Acid Mammoth / Under Acid Hoof Re-Release / Heavy Psych Sounds
All My Faith Lost / Untitled / Cyclic Law
Assassin / Holy Terror/The Saga Of Nemesis / High Roller
Autarkh / Form In Motion / Season Of Mist
Black Diamonds / No-Tell Hotel / Metalapolis
Blackmore’s Night / Nature’s Light / earMusic
Cactus Flowers / Solace EP / People, Parties, Places
Chez Kane / Debut / Frontiers
Conan / Live At Freak Valley / Napalm Records
The Crown / Royal Destroyer / Metal Blade Records
Cruel Life Inside / Eclipsis Vitae / Casus Belli
Dead Poet Society / -!- / Spinefarm Records
Demiser / Through The Gate Eternal / Boris
Dr. Schafausen / Waiting For Tomorrow / Sliptrick
Ego Kill Talent / The Dance Between Extremes EP / BMG
Enforced / Kill Grid / Century Media Records
Eyehategod / A History Of Nomadic Behavior / Century Media Records
Forty Feet Tall / A Good Distraction / Magnetic Moon
Fraught / Splitting Tongues / Cursed Monk
Gary Hughes / Decades / Frontiers
Gary Hughes / Waterside / Frontiers
Gizmachi / Omega Kaleid / Independant
God’s Hate / God’s Hate / Closed Casket
Heart Healer / The Metal Opera By Magnus Karlsson / Frontiers
Isgherurd Morth / Hellrduk / Repose
ISSA / Queen Of Broken Hearts / Frontiers
Jord / Sol / Northern Silence
Ledfoot / Black Valley / TBC
Malist / Karst Relict / Northern Silence
Mara / Djavulstoner / Wormholedeath
Marianas Rest / Fata Morgana / Napalm
Mausoleum/Anatomia / Split / HPGD
Minutian / Magical Thinking / Secret
Myopic & At The Graves / A Cold Sweat Of Quiet Dread / Grimoire
Native Sons / The Natives Are Restless / HighVol
Obzene / The Human Condition / Independant
Orden Ogan / Final Days / AFM
Pupil Slicer / Mirrors / Prosthetic Records
Rioghan / Blackened Sky EP / Inverse
Rise To The Sky / Let Me Drown With You / Independant
Rob Zombie / The Lunar Injection Kool Aid Eclipse Conspiracy / Nuclear Blast
Ronnie Atkins / One Shot / Frontiers
Sacrilegious Crown / Plenilunium Cult EP / Xenoglossy
Saga / Symmetry / earMusic
Secret Sphere / Lifeblood / Frontiers
Sepulcros / Vazio / Transcending Obscurity
Sleepless / Blood Libel EP / Necromantic Press
Snaer / Frozen Alchemy / Independant
Starmen / By The Grace Of Rock N Roll / Melodic Passion
Stortregn / Impermanence / The Artisan Era
Sulpur / Embracing Hatred And Beckoning Darkness / Amor Fati
Sunstorm / Afterlife / Frontiers
Thorium / Ocean Of Blasphemy Re-Release / Emanzipation
Thunder / All The Right Noises / BMG
Thunder Horse / Chosen One / Ripple
Tornekrone / Det Er Ingenting Annet / Northern Silence
Turbulence / Frontal / Frontiers
Twitch Of The Death Nerve / Beset By False Prophets / Comatose
Utbyrd / Varskrik / Petrichor
Varmia / Bal Lada / M-Theory
Wesenwille / II: A Material God / LADLO
White Void / Anti / Nuclear Blast
Witch Tit / Intoxicating Lethargy / Independant

Parutions d’albums metal : 5 mars 2021

by | Mar 5, 2021 | Parutions d'albums metal

Le vendredi c’est la journée des sorties d’albums, alors sur Ondes Chocs, on vous rassemble au même endroit tout ce qu’on connait comme parutions metal pour votre plaisir auditif. Voici donc quelques vidéos / lecteurs audio intégrés, puis une liste plus complète en dessous. Bonne écoute!

Friday is the day of album releases, so on Ondes Chocs, we gather in the same place all the metal releases we know about, for your listening pleasure. Here is some videos and audio players, then a more complete list below. Enjoy!

Brand of Sacrifice – Lifeblood
Toronto, Canada
Deathcore
Blood Blast
https://brandofsacrifice.indiemerch.com/

BAEST – Necro Sapiens
Aarhus, Denmark
Death Metal
Century Media Records

Bonecarver – Evil
Unique Leader Records

Nightfall – At Night We Prey
Season of Mist

Requiem for Oblivion – Hindsight 2020
Erie, PA, USA
Prog / Extreme Metal
Independant

Sullen – Nodus Tollens – Act 1: Oblivion
Blood Blast

Witherfall – Curse Of Autumn
Century Media Records

Wolfheart – Skull Soldiers
Napalm Records

Wolf King – The Path Of Wrath
Prosthetic Records

Liste

Artiste / Album / Label

Acid Mammoth / Caravan / Heavy Psych Sounds
Armored Assault / Blood Queen / Independant
Baest / Necro Sapiens / Century Media
Barathrum / Demo(no)s / Saturnal
Black Knife / Murder Season / Morbid And Miserable
Black Sabbath / Heaven And Hell Re-Release / Rhino
Black Sabbath / Mob Rules Re-Release / Rhino
Bonecarver / Evil / Unique Leader
Brand Of Sacrifice / Lifeblood / Blood Blast
Butterfly / Doorways Of Time / Petrichor
Chainsword / Blightmarch / Godz Ov War
Cobra Cult / Second Gear / GMR
Cult Graves / Strange Customs EP / Gods Ov War
Dayeater / Sweet Earth / Independant
A Day To Remember / You’re Welcome / Fueled By Ramen
Demon Hunter / Songs Of Death And Resurrection / Solid State
Dreamshade / A Pale Blue Dot / Independant
Exanimis / Marionettiste / Klonosphere
Evulse / Pustulant Spawn EP / Godz Ov War
Filippo Rosati / Spark EP / Independant
Golgotha / Remembering The Past / Writing The Future EP / Xtreem
Gorr / Kvit Som Snøen, Kald I Blikket / Independant
Haenesy / Garabontzia / Purity Through Fire
The Harvest Trail / Instinct / Independant
Hellz Abyss / N1FG / Revenge Of Eve
Hongo Fuu / Fuu / Sliptrick
The Hyena Kill / A Disconnect / APF
The Iridium Experiment / Hero-Villain-Victim EP / Rabid Dog
King Bong / Ogopogo / Mandrone
Krakslott / The Witchhammer EP / Independant
Linistit / Evil Arises / Volcano
Magefa / Exenteration / Independant
Meuchelmord / Mordmelodien / Purity Through Fire
Mork / Katedralen / Peaceville
Nadsvest/Necrobode / Split EP / Iron Bonehead
Nightfall / At Night We Prey / Season Of Mist
Nixil / All Knots Untied / Independant
:Nodfyr: / Eigenheid / Van
No Terror In The Bang / Eclosion / Independant
Order Of Nosferat / Necuratal / Purity Through Fire
Pustilence / The Birth Of The Beginning Before The Inception Of The End / Personal
Reaper / The Atonality Of Flesh / Iron Bonehead
Recluse / Lay Your Darkness Down With Me / Independant
Requiem For Oblivion / Hindsight 2020 / Independant
Rod1313 / Dark Clouds EP / Independant
Skinny Knowledge / Don’t Turn Out The Lights / Independant
Som / Awake EP / Blood Blast
Spam Javelin / The Three Chords Of The Apocalypse / Link2Wales
Spelljammer / Abyssal Trip / RidingEasy
Sporae Autem Yuggoth / The Plague Of The Aeons EP / Personal
Starscape / Colony / Stormspell
Stormtide / A Throne Of Hollow Fire / Metal Hell
Sullen / Nodus Tollens / Act 1: Oblivion / Blood Blast
Terror / Trapped In A World / Independant
Thirdface / Do It With A Smile / Exploding In Sound
Thorium / Empires In The Sun / Freya
Thron / Pilgrim / Listenable
Ungraven/Slomatics / Split EP / Blackbow
Vlad / Vlad / Interstellar Smoke
Warrior Path / The Mad King / Symmetric
Witherfall / Curse Of Autumn / Century Media
Wolfheart / Skull Soldiers EP / Napalm
Wolf King / The Path Of Wrath / Prosthetic
Wolvennest / Temple / Van
Wÿntër Ärvń / Abysses / Antiq
Xibalba / Ancients / Nuclear War Now!
Zaratus / In The Days Of Whore / Van

Critique d’album : Abiotic – Ikigai (2021)

by | Fév 19, 2021 | Critiques, Critiques d'Albums

Abiotic
Ikigai
The Artisan Era
12 février 2021

Liste des pièces

  1. Natsukashii
  2. Ikigai
  3. Covered the Cold Earth
  4. Smoldered
  5. The Wrath
  6. If I Do Die
  7. Souvenir of Skin
  8. Her Opus Mangled
  9. Horadric Cube
  10. Grief Eater, Tear Drinker
  11. Gyokusai

Pour les fans de / For fans of :
The Faceless, Gojira, The Black Dahlia Murder, Job For a Cowboy, Rivers of Nihil

Lien pour achat / Link for purchase :
https://www.theartisanerastore.com/category/abiotic
https://abiotic.bandcamp.com/

****Click Here or see below for english version. Translation done by Francis LaBadie.

L’album Ikigai de Abiotic n’est pas une production typique de death metal – c’est une expérience au delà du son. Une beauté logée plus profond que la puissance et l’aggressivité qu’on perçoit en surface.

En plus de sentir l’intention dans chaque note, coup de drum et mot chanté, on y retrouve une richesse sonore, de nombreux effets sonores et orchestrations, et franchement, c’est un travail colossal. On y ressens toute une gamme d’émotions et sensations. La production est d’une qualité sonore ridiculement satisfaisante.

L’ambiance contextuelle de l’album est exprimée dans la pièce d’introduction, “Natsukashii”, et également sur la pochette de l’album : on y voyage dans l’univers des samourais du Japon au 16ième siècle.

Je dois avouer qu’à la première écoute d’Ikigai, je n’étais pas dutout prêt pour ce masterpiece. Ce fut pour moi une expérience poignante que j’ai peine à décrire avec des mots. J’ai été complètement frappé par le caractère vivant de cet album qui m’a littéralement plongé dans une transe sensorielle. J’étais estomaqué par la puissance et la couleur de la musique, a un point tel que je ne comprenais pas comment cette musique parlait à mes sens. Mes sens étaient complètement confus. Cet album possède une âme bien à lui et l’expérience de la première écoute était comme si son âme et la mienne ne faisaient qu’un pendant l’écoute. C’était un mélange d’être ébahi par la qualité et la richesse du mix audio, en même temps qu’une profonde mélancolie existentielle. Comme si l’album avait ramené à la vie une partie intérieure de moi qui était éteinte.

Le plus déstabilisant dans tout ça c’est d’être frappé soudainement par cette tempête d’émotions et sensations qui se confondent ensemble, sans en comprendre le pourquoi ni le comment. Après avoir porté attention aux commentaires des membres du groupe dans le document promo qui accompagne l’album (promo pour les médias) et avoir lu certaines des paroles, j’ai pu éclairer une partie du mystère pour moi.

Extraits du document :

The title Ikigai translates from Japanese as “a reason for being.”

[…] we wanted to write something that could be felt and that would be relatable, as we all struggle
to find our reason to carry on in these trying times.

[…] the feelings we sought to bring out with this record; pain, grief, desperation, and
perseverance are palpable in every note, every chord, and every word, with lyrics touching on
topics of suicide, depression, addiction, climate change and the struggle of finding our reason for
being.

À mon avis ce qu’ils ont voulu faire avec cet album est très réussi, mon expérience vécue en est pour moi la preuve. Maintenant que j’en refais l’écoute, c’est aussi poignant, mais différent de la première fois. Un peu comme quelqu’un qui recherche la sensation intense de la première fois qu’il a consommé une substance forte, mais qui n’arrive à peine qu’à l’effleurer les fois d’après.

Les pièces 5 (The Wrath) et 6 (If I Do Die) sont mes préférées sur l’album. Les orchestrations par dessus la musique la rendent tout simplement grandiose.

Je vais terminer en disant qu’il serait inutile pour moi d’essayer de trouver une critique négative à faire de cet album. Je n’en ai simplement aucune.

Merci, Abiotic, pour l’expérience.

Ikigai est pour moi facilement l’album de la décennie même si elle ne fait que commencer, et je doute qu’un autre album de metal lui prendra son titre de #1 dans mes préférences, et ce, à vie.

–Francis LaBadie


English 

Ikigai from Abiotic is not your typical death metal record – it’s an entire experience, far beyond the sound. A beauty that resides deeper than the power and aggressivity that we perceive at its surface.

The intention in every note, drum hit, and sung word can be felt, and there is such a richness in its sound, with numerous sound effects and orchestrations. Frankly, it’s a colossal work of very fine craftsmanship. A whole spectrum of emotions and sensations can be felt within this album. Its audio production is ridiculously satisfying.

The contextual ambience is expressed in the first track and on the album cover : it is a journey in the universe of 16th century Japan’s samurais.

I must admit that when I listened to Ikigai for the first time, I wasn’t ready at all for this masterpiece. For me, it has been a heart touching experience that I struggle to describe with words. I have been completely struck by the living aspect of this album, which literally put me in a sensory trance. I was stunned by the power and color of the music, to such an extent that I did not comprehend how this music spoke to my senses. My senses just couldn’t compute. This album has a soul of its own, and my first listening experience was as if its soul and mine were one. It was a mix of being amazed by the quality of the audio production and some deep existential melancholy. As if the album had brought back to life a part of me that was dead.

What’s most desabilizing in all this, is to be suddenly struck by this storm of emotions and sensations confused together, without undestanding why, neither how. But after reading some of the comments made by the band in the promo document that came with the album (reviewers package), I could find some answers to these mysteries.

Excerpt from the document :

The title Ikigai translates from Japanese as “a reason for being.”

[…] we wanted to write something that could be felt and that would be relatable, as we all struggle
to find our reason to carry on in these trying times.

[…] the feelings we sought to bring out with this record; pain, grief, desperation, and
perseverance are palpable in every note, every chord, and every word, with lyrics touching on
topics of suicide, depression, addiction, climate change and the struggle of finding our reason for
being.

In my opinion, what they meant to do with this album was a success, the experience I lived through being the proof. Now that I listen to it again, it grabs me just as much, but differently than the first time. It’s kind of like someone who is seeking the intense sensations of the first time taking a strong substance, but barely scratching its surface.

Track 5 (The Wrath) and 6 (If I Do Die) are my favorites on the album. The layer of orchestrations on top of the rest just make it grandiose.

I will end this review by saying it’s no use for me trying to find a negative critique to bring up in this review. I just don’t have any of that.

Thank you, Abiotic, for the experience.

Ikigai is easily the album of the decade for me even if it just started. And I doubt another metal album will ever take it’s #1 spot in my preferences.

-Francis LaBadie