Alcest

Alcest to Play Canada on First North American Tour in Seven Years

PUBLISHED Sep 18, 2024

Alcest have announced their first North American tour in seven years. Next February and March, the French post-metal outfit will play 24...

Alcest Stay in the Light on 'Les Chants de l'Aurore'

PUBLISHED Jun 19, 2024

There is something incredibly satisfying about amalgamating genres into ridiculous, Frankensteinian combinations, and there is no ...

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Spiritual Instinct

PUBLISHED Oct 24, 2019

Widely regarded as the pioneers of blackgaze, Alcest have been interweaving the threads of black metal and shoegaze for well over a decade....

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Kodama

PUBLISHED Sep 28, 2016

The central theme of Hayao Miyazaki's masterpiece Princess Mononoke, cited as one of the major influences behind the creation of French bla...

Alcest Announces North American Tour

PUBLISHED Jul 15, 2015

Last year, French black metal outfit Alcest upset some fans with the stylistic shift of Shelter, and album that drew a nine out of ten from...

Neige Defends Alcest's Stylistic Shift Forward on 'Shelter'

PUBLISHED Feb 3, 2014

Since 2005, French black metal outfit Alcest have been drawing connections between black metal and shoegaze in their music, and are essenti...

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Sea Change

PUBLISHED Jan 29, 2014

In 2013, while the metal genre offshoot "blackgaze" reached a critical peak with Deafheaven's Sunbather, the man who helped popularize the...

Alcest

Shelter

PUBLISHED Jan 17, 2014

Throughout their career Alcest have expertly balanced their sound between black metal and shoegaze, but with the release of their latest al...