In general I listen to many metal bands with non-English vocals because I´m interested in languages of different origins. Talking about France, my faves are Blaspheme, Killers, ADX, H-Bomb etc. but my no. 1 will always be Sortilège, that´s for sure!
Unfortunately there aren´t so many interesting new bands from France. I love Malédiction´s debut "Condamnés" so much, but their second album is just o.k., nothing special. What a shame the guys gave up so fast. Lonewolf is another really great band, but all of their lyrics are in English.
I think only one of you mentioned them, what do you all think of this one?
they're my favourite, they conjugate the power and the finesse! I found their s/t LP in the flymarket of Saint Ouen near Paris for a couple of euros.
I think the vocalist is incredible, the best track on this album is Casse Toi! and I love watching the logo "Devil's record" spinning as the vinyl runs its course!
I think Warning can be very strong, some songs are steel incarnated but they also have some terrible songs (like a reggae one on the first album)
Demon Eyes are unique in the way they blend evil atmospheres and straight heavy metal sung in French, I wonder if they're going to release a new album soon with the old line-up ...
ADX and H-Bomb have great power and Sortilege great melodies.
What I've heard from Der Kaiser and Lust didn't impress me at all, Lust vocals I found particularly irritating.
Extreme metal-wise, Massacra and Mutilated are crushing dinosaurs and I realy love Antaeus' first album (I assume you probably all hate it here)
I think only one of you mentioned them, what do you all think of this one?
they're my favourite, they conjugate the power and the finesse! I found their s/t LP in the flymarket of Saint Ouen near Paris for a couple of euros.
I think the vocalist is incredible, the best track on this album is Casse Toi! and I love watching the logo "Devil's record" spinning as the vinyl runs its course!
Funny, i always thought the vocalist was their weakest point. I find him quite annoying when he tries to sing high. Nice guitar work tho'.
Good against Evil, Evil sure to win
"It really didn't matter if they liked it or not, i was going to give it to them straight down their throats" -John Stewart
I think the vocalist is incredible, the best track on this album is Casse Toi!
That's one of my absolute favorite French metal anthems, a damn good song! The rest of the album sadly is not on par with that track, though. The cover art with the angry half-lynx-half-man is great, too, heh..
My copy of the first ADX LP does not have an insert...
The first HIGH POWER is great, though the song structures are so very repetitive. The 2nd LP though much rarer isn't near as good, maybe two good tracks, the title track is great though - if the whole album followed suite, more 'progressive', it would be interesting.
DEMON EYES were only good in the demo stage to me...
The H-BOMB EP is great, not so much the LP. ALL SORTILÈGE records rule. Then DER KAISER, both albums wonderful but especially the first is like magic to me! First NIGHTMARE, yep, FISC too. The divine first SATAN JOKERS. OCÉAN, MARÈCAGE, BLASPHEME, H AND H, LUST, WARNING, VOODOO CHILD, AXTON PRYTE, DAMOCLES, KILLERS, LEGEND, ANGEL CRASH, ANTHRACITE, etc., I can't remember all the bands rigt now, but I guess you could say I love French metal.
Are you the tyrant, who cast them to the sea?
One day you'll be among the dead.
i think overlooking the seveninches is a terrible oversight-to me the french sevens are better than the nwobhm 7inch scene-simply cos what they have is 'post nwobhm french metal' (83-86 mostly)whereas nwobhm is 80% late 70s rawk
stuff like astaroth,wade shoken,desdemona,h and h,nightreaper,tokyo,blaa bla blaaa theres a ton of em
lps:lust is my absolute fave,manowar worship-i love the vocals-and they have a shitload of demo tracks as well,all great as far as im concerned
the first track of the venin ep is a killer,haurdes savages by auroch is great,all sortilege rules,first titan rules,killers-fils rules
excess-the second album is an overlooked masterpiece
and i ve downloaded endless french demos from blogs,most of them ranging from good to great,extremely obscure stuff.i think ,if one excludes italy and holland,france had the best european scene in the 80s.
I am so true my mp3 player's screen has slight ringwear