Viande are crafting dense and harrowing death metal that affects you on a psychological level and to that extent they’ve indulged in adding that extra bit of atmosphere and unsettling industrial ambience into their music, not to mention the dreadful doom-laden passages. It’s an album you need to listen to carefully with your headphones on. One fitting official video with their kind of disturbing vision has been created which can be viewed HERE and the other song can be streamed HERE.
Viande (France) – L’abime dévore les âmes (Dark/Atmospheric Death Metal)
Genre – (Dark Death Metal)
Release Date – April 15th, 2021
Record Label – Transcending Obscurity Records
For fans of – Incantation, Cruciamentum, Portal, Dead Congregation, Vacivus, Fossilization, Gateway
Emanating as if from the foul-smelling, poisoned swamps, the music of debutants Viande will make you claw at your throat, enveloping you in suffocating darkness, and before you know it, it will have on your knees gasping for air, with a blood-stained bag on your head. Soon enough the clobbering begins in pitch black darkness and amidst the mind-numbing cacophony, with eerie sounds ringing about, one thing becomes clear – there are stranger, darker forces involved here. More than just another dark death metal band, Viande are conjuring up different sounds and atmospheric elements to create a truly terrifying form of death metal, one that doesn’t wallow in misery for too long and is more content bashing skulls in. The full length remains an amorphous exercise in darkness, be it with the use of bestial-sounding primordial catharsis, harrowing doom-laden passages, or just their own kind of unsettling industrial ambience, they’re on to something and it transcends mere Incantation-worship. L’abime dévore les âmes is an accomplished debut with soul-scarring qualities.
Line up –
J: vocals + visuals
B: guitars + noise
M: drums
G: live bass
Artwork and layout by J-B Godefroy
Track list –
1. Les Dents Du Gouffre
2. Le Ventre Monde
3. La Tombe Avide
4. Miroir Decharne
5. Le Souffle Des Os
6. Traitre A La Vie
7. Lueurs De Cendres
8. Langues De Brume
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