Le projet « Le Kraken » a débuté à la fin de 2006, dans une atmosphère froide et fastidieuse de décembre. Dès le départ, les compositions prenaient une direction empreinte de lourdeur, de profondeur et d’intensité. Suite à un premier EP de quatre chansons, nous avons fait plus de 60 spectacles un peu partout au Québec durant deux ans. En avril 2009, nous nous sommes isolé en studio afin de composer notre premier album nommé « Exalt. » Cet album allait prendre une tournure tout à fait différente de ce que le premier EP annonçait. Les pièces de « Exalt » affichent un son très épique, mélodique et lourd. Les paroles entièrement en français abordent des thèmes comme la pureté des animaux, la régénération, la résilience, la non-dualité et la purification. Ce disque sortira sous l’étiquette de disque « D7I Records » et pourrait plaire à des fans de groupes tels que Cult of Luna, Doomriders et Aussitôt Mort.<br><br>
Les plans pour le futur sont nombreux. En avril 2010, une tournée européenne de deux semaines aura lieu avec le groupe « Nesseria » de France dans des pays tels que la Belgique, l’Allemagne, la Croatie, l’Autriche, la Suisse, l’Italie et la France. Entre temps, le plus récent album « Exalt » sera probablement enregistré sur vinyle. Aussi, un nouveau disque se prépare et pourrait voir le jour sous la forme d’un « split 12 pouces » ou d’un EP de quatre chansons. Suite à la tournée européenne d’avril, une autre tournée se prépare pour août 2010 avec, encore une fois le groupe « Nesseria » pour une période de deux semaines et couvrant plusieurs villes du Québec, de l’Ontario et des Maritimes. <br><br>
CELESTE plays a mix of Sludge / Post-hardcore with Black Metal and Doom hints. Definitely for fans of Breach, Neurosis, old Cult of Luna or Deathspell Omega. Darkness is really the word that fits to the band. They are a very particular band live as they play in total darkness, only using red headlights and a strobe for their performances.
They did more than 200 shows all over Europe, Russia and Japan with bands such as The Ocean, The Locust, Jarboe, Esoteric, Enablers, Fall of Efrafa, Comadre, Graf Orlock, Killing Joke, Amenra....and played at some famous Festival like Hellfest, Roadburn, Copenhell Fest, SWR Fest, Fluff Fest, Sant Feliu Fest, Denovali Swingfest, ...
The band was born in 2003 in Paris and its outskirts on the ashes of bands like Gameness, or Belle Epoque and starts being fully active in 2005. Revok doesn’t claim any particular influence but rather develops a profound taste for harsh and dark atmospheres. In 2005, the band puts out two self released Eps : Biocarbon Amalgamate and Program Medics And Cathode Clinics. In 2007, after featurings on several compilations the first full length Bad Books And Empty Pasts gets out on CD format on Rejuvenation Records (Microfilm, Unlogostic, New Brutalism, Scul Hazzards…). The vinyl version will be released by Denovali Records on February 2010. Since then the band wrote the soundtrack of a short movie for the franco-german channel ARTE and a split 7” with Pneu released on Music Fear Satan Records.
Grief is my new moniker, their second full length will be available on Music Fear Satan Records on March 2011, recorded by Sylvain Biguet and mastered by Alan Douches.
So far Revok toured in France, Germany, Czech, Slovakia, Switzerland, England, Scotland, Belgium, Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Spain and Italy and shared the stage with bands such as : Narrows, Wolves In The Throne Room, Don Caballero, Amen Ra, No Means No,Taint, Buried Inside, Comity, Monochrome, Year Of No Light, Celeste, Ken Mode, Time To Burn, Silent Front, Shield Your Eyes, Panthers, Racebannon, Microfilm, Gantz, Traktor, Houston Swing Engine, Every Reason To…, Looking For John G., Fiend, Tang, HKY and many, many more.
EF
Post Rock / Experimental
It all started in Göteborg, Sweden back in 2003; the embryo of ef was already active, but this was the year that it all took a whole new direction. New members came into the group and the sound was totally reformed.
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The following years it all went pretty quick; Besides four self recorded demos, one 7” single, one remix CDEP and two full length albums (“Give me beauty… Or give me death!” – 2006 and “I am responsible” – 2008) they accomplished 10 full EU tours, numbers of festival shows and weekend adventures. ef was featured on television, student radio, did 100s of interviews and also did a live radio session for Belgiums biggest radio station; Studio Brussel.
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ef may now count themselves as one of the hardest working independent bands in Europe – and they still think there’s more to achieve.
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It's fall of 2009 and the three remaining stabile members of ef have locked them self up in the rehearsal room to write and arrange the songs that will become their third full length album; “Mourning golden morning”.
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The album is later that fall beeing recorded by Magnus Lindberg from Swedens finest metal band Cult of Luna in the legendary vintage studio Music-A-Matic. This is the first time the band let someone else produce and put the final touches on the material.
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