Nuit Noire
Bitume, 2025
9/10
An outfit that transforms essential and primitive violence into sound, Arbre-dieu flesh out 4 tracks that stem from the night of a bad trip resulting from Argyreia nervosa.
“Graines de la folie” starts with murky guitars and dense drumming that swirls with metallic and grungy ideas, and “Tourbillon chaotique” follows with lightning quick drumming and thick waves of guitar that’s abrasive but not without a sense of melody buried under the fury.
On the back half, the technical and pounding “La vieille femme et le soleil pále” uses throaty vocals amid both punk and black metal nods, while “Mort et renaissance” injects a harmonic guitar tone to complement the noisy textures of intensity.
An effort that reshapes pain into a passage, Arbre-dieu churn out Occult Black Metal that’s really startling, powerful and an engaging experience.
Travels well with: Superchained- Symbolic; Thy Apokalypse- Fragment quatriéme (Metacosmos)