Alcest to launch new album Non secular Intuition, share video for single “Safety”: Stream

French post-metal duo Alcest will return with their sixth album and Nuclear Blast debut, Non secular Intuition, this fall. They’ve additionally shared the video for the primary single, “Safety”.

The brand new album, due out October 25th, was written intermittently round durations of touring in help of 2016’s Kodama. It was recorded on the French Drudenhaus Studios and sees the band increasing on their shoegazing black metallic sound. “Safety” is as heavy a monitor as we’ve heard from Alcest in a while, however the band’s signature shimmering vocals and melodies stay, as hovering vocal passages are bookended by blast beats and decisive riffing. The general development of the monitor traverses many moods and soundscapes.

“‘Safety’ is the primary monitor I wrote for Non secular Intuition,” vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Neige commented in a press launch. “It’s in all probability certainly one of our most heavy, spontaneous songs. It’s about inside battle, the stress between the non secular and darker sides of an individual, dealing with your personal anguishes in an effort to embrace them after which combat them. Like the opposite tracks on the album, writing it was a really cathartic, therapeutic course of for me.”

The video for the monitor, which was directed by Craig Murray, may be seen under. Pre-orders for digital codecs, cassette, CD, and a number of vinyl variants, together with a restricted field set that features a mini-LP of “bonus tracks”, can be found right here.

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