Stereogum — Calgary’s Numenorean self-categorize as “post-black metal,” a term that is often used interchangeably with “atmospheric black metal.” Popular bands that play this style of music are, for example, Deafheaven, Wolves In The Throne Room, Alces... more info

Metal Injection — Alcest is working on some "alien," or so they say. The post ALCEST To Release A New Record This Fall appeared first on Metal Injection. more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Andrew Sacher photo: Alcest at Public Assembly in 2012 (more by Greg Cristman) French metalgazers Alcest are returning to North America for a tour here in late summer/early fall, and making it an excellent double bill is the dark... more info

Stereogum — Until last year, France’s Lantlôs were probably best known as the band that Neige sang for when he wasn’t doing Alcest. That was never a fair appraisal of Lantlôs or the band’s actual division of labor — Lantlôs was formed in 2005 by its m... more info

Stereogum — The ranks of expansively pretty and brutally fuzzed-out metal/not-metal bands seems to grow every day. Philly shoegazers Nothing are closer to recent-vintage Alcest than they are to Deafheaven on that spectrum, but there’s a heavy intensity to thei... more info