Demande à la Poussière surfaces again.
Created in 2017 in Paris, the band composed of Christophe “Krys” Denhez (vocals/guitar), Edgard Chevallier (guitar), Neil Leveugle (bass) and Vincent Baglin (drums) unearth Quiétude Hostile, its second album.
On this eight songs album, everything inside of the band’s music calls for the darkest melancholy and the most painful languor. Vocals in french add this touch that only french Black (and derivated) Metal can give, sometimes picking into Sludge, Doom, Post… Whether Léger Goût de Soufre immediately places us into an oppressive and dissonant ambiance, created by the groovy rhythmic and the vocalist’s visceral howlings, we feel that Morphème adds sharper tones, and piercing but airy harmonics. We continue with the unhealthy Eréthisme and its shrilling tones that alight on a seizing basis, allowing musicians to stun us with heavy riffs. Mystical tones can also be heard, like on the ghostly eponymous song, Quiétude Hostile (“quiet hostility” in french). The song’s name perfectly sums the mid-quiet, mid-aggressive ambience up that reigns, between scary parts and possessed screams. Perdu offers softer but very black tones, presenting a new dimension to this seizing melancholy the band develops with a nearly instrumental composition, then Bois de Justice brings sharp sounds to this devastated universe. Riffs are more piercing, more heady, but also more weighing on the second half of the song. L’Oubli du Contrasté holds its name right because it offers an impressive contrast between oppressive and quiet parts, but this contrast brings some kind of frustration that slowly casts itself off before Expiravit, the last song. Whether the song basis is haunted by a thick rhythmic fog, we feel tones that slowly emerge, like this dissonant saxophone that lasts until the last moment, this quiet bass and above all those catchy tones.
Demande à la Poussière invokes mystical and heavy influences to create its heavy and dissonant universe, that we find on Quiétude Hostile. The song is far from being easy, but its intensity is contagious.
90/100