Review 2577 : Zero Absolu – La Saignée – English

The time has come for Zero Absolu.

Known as Glaciation, the band now made up of V (vocals, ex-The CNK), HM (guitar/composition, Necroblaspheme), FMD (keyboards, Zero, ex-Diapsiquir) and RR (drums, Regarde les Hommes Tomber) has called on IS (bass, Alcest) to rebirth, sign to AOP Records and unveil La Saignée, its new album.

With its two very long tracks, the band may come as a surprise, but anyone familiar with its previous incarnation won’t be afraid to venture into the icy La Saignée, encountering darkness and viscerality. The instrumental transports us between quietude and devastating saturation, while V shares his scathing poetry, openly aimed at his former comrade, albeit with a vocal sample to temper the outpouring. The criticism is as acerbic as the instrumental is soaring, but it comes to a head in a more noisy approach, accompanied by crystalline sounds followed by new samples – probably from a well-known documentary – but the track continues with more hazy influences before a final burst of rage. It gradually comes to an end, giving way to Le Temps Détruit Tout (“Time Destroys Everything” in French, ed.), which starts out very soothingly, but returns to its dark fury and destructive verve interspersed with haunting moments, fitting in perfectly with the virulent discourse complemented by those few phrases added against an almost luminous background. The keyboards fascinate us for a long moment, then the band tilts its composition back into the depths – where it clearly wishes to see its enemy – to accompany us on the final moments of the track, where the instrumental becomes epochal before slowly fading away.

Zero Absolu came out of nowhere, but the album is nothing short of stunning. If the speech is sharper than a knife in Norway, the instrumental of La Saignée is also incredibly powerful and disorienting, making us forget the time spent listening to it.

95/100

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