![News Added Aug 13, 2015 DÉLUGE became one of the most exciting upcoming bands in French black metal in late 2014 through the release their first EP Mélas | Khōlé. This fall they come back on Les Acteurs de l’Ombre with a full-length called Æther that I had the privilege to hear a few weeks […]](https://hasitleaked.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Cover3-320x320.jpg "DÉLUGE : Æther")
DÉLUGE became one of the most exciting upcoming bands in French black metal in late 2014 through the release their first EP Mélas | Khōlé. This fall they come back on Les Acteurs de l’Ombre with a full-length called Æther that I had the privilege to hear a few weeks ago, which only reinforced my faith in their future. In February, I saw them perform live, and their visual show as well as the strength of their songs blew my mind.
It’s not your traditional black metal or ambient black, but a mix of a lot of things that give their sound a unique feeling of “peaceful aggressiveness.” I also liked their whole concept revolving around rain/water. Their name DÉLUGE means flood, they have songs called “Bruine” (drizzle), “Avalanche” (well it’s not rain, but snow is still water) or “Houle,” meaning swell and many more. You can even go further with the name of the song/EP, Mélas | Khōlé, Greek for melancholia, a feeling easily associated with heavy rains. Maybe I’m seeing things, but I like the idea – rain comforts me the way this kind of black metal does, and associating the two seems only logical to me.
Great….Great….Great…. !