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“Exceptionally well-balanced and aesthetically fulfilling, moving gracefully between menacing or triumphant.” – Steel Sucks (4/5)
“Extra atmospheric black steel goodness, handiest this time, it is even grander than the whole lot that has long past ahead of it.” – Distorted Sound (8/10)
From the crucible of France’s shadowed previous – the place the streets as soon as echoed with the shrieks of the condemned – comes SETH, the rustic’s heralds of black steel. Their upcoming 7th full-length album, L. a. France des Maudits, summons the spirit of revolt and riot. That is no mere selection of songs however a modern symphony that calls upon the echoes of fallen angels and the flame-lit guillotine.
L. a. France des Maudits is about to be launched on 14 july, July 14, by means of Season of Mist. On the other hand, you’ll concentrate to all 8 bloody and triumphant songs these days, because of Black Steel Promotion, who’re premiering the overall album flow on their YouTube channel.
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A Modern Symphony of Shadows and Defiance
SETH invokes the blood-stained historical past and mystic fall of a long-standing kingdom to create a soundtrack of defiance. Their newest introduction, L. a. France des Maudits, is an intricate tapestry of shadows, soaking wet within the wine of condemned males and the blood of saints. This black steel gospel speaks to the damned and the outcast, those that refuse to kneel ahead of divine decay and as an alternative upward push like wraiths within the evening.
With songs like “Et Que Vive le Diable!” and “Dans le Cœur un Poignard,” the band carves out anthems of resistance for a brand new age. L. a. France des Maudits captures the uncooked, unyielding fury of an international getting ready to an apocalypse – a realm the place the downtrodden upward push in defiance in opposition to celestial oppression.
Early Reward for L. a. France des Maudits
“Calls for the distinction of critics and the envy of artists to propel them right into a horizon ablaze through the inferno of one thousand church buildings.” – Steel Chunk (9.5/10)
“It pulls you in, throws you into the guts of the war, and leaves your frame bruised and damaged through the top.” – Steel Temple (8/10)
“The French Black Steel Scene has been thriving in the previous few years and Seth demonstrates that being each pioneers and leaders will also be conceivable with one hell of a whole sound. When you like Black Steel, this launch will have to now not move unheard.” – Infernal Masquerade (97/100)
Tracklist
Paris des Maléfices (5:09)
Et Que Vive le Diable! (5:35)
L. a. Destruction des Reliques (5:51)
Dans le Cœur un Poignard (5:30)
Marianne (2:59)
Ivre du Sang des Saints (5:37)
Rebel (7:33) [WATCH]
Le Vin du Condamné (8:06)
Initials B.B. (Serge Gainsbourg Duvet) (Bonus Observe) (3:49)
General runtime: 46:22
SETH: The Architects of French Black Steel
Within the solemn shadows of a lyrically resurrected Paris, the place the whispers of revolution nonetheless hang-out the cobblestones and the phantom caress of the guillotine’s blade lingers within the air, stands a band – now not simply of musicians however of contemporary Marats, Robespierres in leather-based and lace, anointed with the spirit of revolt. SETH, the harbingers of a gloomy but fervidly awaited break of day, are poised over again to unharness a tempest upon the sanctified silence of the recent tune scene with their latest auditory rebellion, L. a. France des Maudits.
The historical past of black steel formation SETH and Season of Mist spans again to the early days of the French steel scene. The band’s debut, Les Blessures de L’Ame (1998), used to be some of the first releases at the label. This album is now considered a cornerstone in French black steel, pioneering using their local tongue on a black steel file.
The discharge of Les Blessures de L’Ame temporarily received global consideration, and SETH constructed a cast fanbase. The French blasphemers signed a two-release care for Osmose Productions and took part within the MAYHEM cult tribute album Originators of the Northern Darkness along IMMORTAL and BEHEMOTH. The second one full-length, The Excellence, got here out in 2000 and featured a contribution from none as opposed to Fenriz (DARKTHRONE), who wrote the lyrics for the music “Let Me Be The Salt In Your Wound.”
In a while after, the gang recorded their 3rd album, Divine-X (2002), on the Extra Studios in Rotterdam (EPICA, AFTER FOREVER, SINISTER). This file demonstrated the power of the band to combine gloomy and violent atmospheres and won in depth protection from the global steel press on the time.
Returning to the Netherlands to file the fourth album, Technology-Decay (2004), two new contributors joined the ranks of SETH: vocalist Black Messiah and guitarist Cyriex. Afterwards, the band used to be invited to play on the prestigious Inferno pageant in Norway in 2005.
A protracted hiatus adopted till the band returned in 2011 to play an unique display in Germany with the German cult act BETHLEHEM. The band re-joined the ranks of Season of Mist, sooner or later freeing The Howling Spirit (2013) and embarking on a Eu excursion with PESTILENCE. A number of appearances at main gala’s adopted, together with Hellfest and Graspop Steel Assembly, concluded through a Canadian headliner excursion with new vocalist Saint Vincent (BLACKLODGE).
Celebrating the twentieth anniversary of Les Blessures de L’Ame in 2018, SETH completely carried out all of the album at gala’s in Switzerland, Canada (Messe de Morts), and Belgium (Thronefest). The French label Les Acteurs de l’Ombre productions launched a reside recording of those presentations, known as 20 ans de Blasphème. The band’s new line-up options contributors of LOUDBLAST, ARKHON INFAUSTUS, and MELTED SPACE.
Within the twilight yr of 2021, inside of Paris’ shadow-ridden crypt, Studio Sainte Marthe, an album used to be birthed from SETH’s tumultuous revelation, christened L. a. Morsure du Christ. Incomes plaudits of marvel, it used to be no mere selection of hymns however a solitary harbinger of deconstruction, a cataclysm of unseen proportions. Inspiration seeped from Notre-Dame de Paris—her skeletal body ablaze in 2019’s firestorm—a logo of decaying religion for a godforsaken technology. As heavy because the iron center of a guillotine, L. a. Morsure du Christ echoed during the chambers of 2021, reigning ideally suited in a large number of global and French steel charts, in addition to its inclusion on premier streaming platform playlists. Daring symphonies interwoven with razor-sharp lyricism and an advanced conceptual resonance dared to ascertain black steel via a modern lens.
Rooted deeply within the soil that when drank deeply of royal and commoner blood alike throughout the tumultuous fervour of the French Revolution, SETH items their newest opus—a black steel gospel in keeping with the damned and the outcast. An intricate tapestry of shadows and defiance emerges from the darkness of historical past’s recesses, swirling with the mists of apocalyptic visions and the ashes of fallen angels. L. a. France des Maudits is a declaration of warfare, a decision to fingers for the souls nonetheless smouldering underneath the veneer of an international too lengthy gripped within the chilly fingers of a moribund orthodoxy.
With the fractured bones of useless gods underneath their boots, SETH voyages during the forbidden and the occult, tracing the traces of historical prophecies and the decadent whispers of L. a. Grande Catin Écarlate, the scarlet lady of the apocalypse. Their songs, from “Paris des Maléfices” to “Rebel,” resonate with the echoes of a Paris besieged now not through armies however through souls clamouring for liberation—a town the place each and every stone tells a story of defiance, the place each and every shadow harbours the spirit of insurrection.
Lyrically, L. a. France des Maudits is dripping with the wine of condemned males and the blood of saints, narrating the epic saga of riot from the ashes of a fallen Notre-Dame. This isn’t the Paris of sunshine, however of enlightening darkness, the place the façades of grandeur disintegrate to expose the uncooked flesh of true humanity, writhing in its everlasting combat in opposition to divine oppression. Right here, within the very center of darkness, SETH reveals its muse a few of the cacophony of damaged chains and shattered dogmas.
Get ready to march underneath the banner unfurled through SETH, within the grand custom of the ones unyielding souls who as soon as stormed the Bastille and dared to dream of an international remade. L. a. France des Maudits beckons—to not the gallows, however to glory.
Line-up
Saint Vincent – Vocals (Blacklodge)
Heimoth – Guitar (Sinsaenum)
Drakhian
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