This album took many by surprise. Most of them are used to the brooding, dark, cavernous sounding bands but this one plays tricks on your mind with the eerie atmospheric parts. No one expected a band having such a harrowing sound as an integral part of their music. Watch their OFFICIAL VIDEO to know what I’m saying. US site Grizzly Butts streamed their entire album AT THIS LINK. It’s definitely singular experience. Excerpt –
“Viande‘s cavernous atmospheric reach and martial brutality create an ear catching, immediate tension as the trio explore their own voice”
PRESS –
– “Viande’s music has a death metal core but emerges as something more sinister sounding” – Decibel Magazine (US)
– “plunges the listener into a horrific dark death” – Metallian Magazine (France) 5/6 BOMBS
– “Viande push the boundaries of Death Metal to even greater lengths” – Metal Roos (Australia) 4/5
– “a true underground marvel” – Head-Banger Reviews (US)
– “Viande‘s cavernous atmospheric reach and martial brutality create an ear catching, immediate tension as the trio explore their own voice” – Grizzly Butts (US)
– “the soundtrack to the most disturbing horror film ever made” – Man of Much Metal (US) 84%
– “VIANDE is keeping dark death metal dangerous in 2022” – Extreme Metal Maniac (US)
– “Challenging, unnerving and best of all, devastatingly heavy” – The Killchain (UK)
– “unnerving yet electrifying debut album” – No Clean Singing (US)
– “a real debauchery” – Hard Force (France)
– “a suffocating, dirty and dark output” – Acta Infernalis (France) 80/100
– “a crushingly detailed narrative of pure devastation” – Dargedik (Peru) 8/10
– “like a clear and distinct wave of darkness which advances” – Satan Owes Us Money (France)
– “will let the abyss sneak up on you and devour your soul” – Metal Epidemic (US) 3.5/5
– “no regard for the stability of your state of mind” – Flying Fiddlesticks (UK)
– “full of darkness” – Dioses Del Metal (Spain)
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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