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ANOTHER FREE ALBUM FROM CELESTE!

 Friday, April 16th, 2010 at 11:30am by

Seriously, I owe Cosmo Lee a beer.

Last year one of his columns at Invisible Oranges introduced me to the French black metal band, Celeste; their album, Misanthrope(s), was released on Denovali records, but was also made available as a free download, meaning you really had no excuse not to check these guys out. I fell really, really hard for the album; so much so that it ended up making my 2009 year-end list.

Now another Cosmo column has alerted me to the fact that the band as a new album, Morte(s) Nees(s) (which I think translates to Born Dead), and that, once again, the group and Denovali are giving it away for free. You can download it here; Misanthropes(s) is still available free of charge, too, so if you never checked that album out, well, here’s your chance.

I’m downloading Morte(s) Nees(s) even as I type this, so I can’t really comment yet with regards to how it stacks up against Misanthropes(s); but even if it’s only half as good, it will still be better than 99% of the shit that comes out in 2010. Go get it.

-AR

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  • M.

    I love Celeste. It’s not quite black metal, but man does it have a heavy atmosphere.

  • GoingDeaf?

    Just discovered these guys the other day…. loving it. I’m a sucker for groove, so the hardcore rhythms with the oppressive black metal guitars is doing it for me big time. Oppressive as fuck. Going to check out the previous albums as well.

  • GoingDeaf?

    Just discovered these guys the other day…. loving it. I’m a sucker for groove, so the hardcore rhythms with the oppressive black metal guitars is doing it for me big time. Oppressive as fuck. Going to check out the previous albums as well.

    Wish they’d mix the drums heavier, though…. it would be more punishing.

    • GoingDeaf?

      oops.

    • Chris D.

      Totally agree with you, man. I don’t listen to too much black metal despite the great atmosphere created because of the lack of rhythmic diversity, and Celeste brings both together.

  • Andy Synn

    Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I downloaded both Nihiliste(s) and Misanthrope(s) for free, then got physical copies when my local metal cd/record store got them in, purely because they are awesome and the artwork and packaging compelled me. Methinks the same pattern will repeat here.

  • Sophus

    So fucking awesome

  • AB12

    This album crushes

  • Alex_P

    Their most brutal yet. A little atmosphere is lost, but overall, it’s just utterly punishing.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jay-See/726690352 Jay See

    Wow, thanks for bringing this to my attention. Hadn’t heard these guys before but as soon as I see “French black metal”, I’m sold; seriously, every fucking black metal (and death metal for that matter) band from France stomps. These guys sound great so far, and OFFICIAL free downloads are nothing to sneeze at.

  • |Tch0rT|

    That’s seriously bad ass they keep offering free albums. Downloading now…

  • Steph

    I wouldn’t call them black metal, you can hear a load of euro screamo in there too. Also, this rules.

  • Dash

    First album which is also great is available on their page for free download as well…

  • Ares

    I’m really in love with this band. If you’re skeptical of what they sound like, think Cult of Luna meets Wolves in the Throne room. Post-Black Metal if you will.

  • Brine B

    Why won’t the damn thing burn to DISC?? You know some of us STILL HAVE TO USE DISCS. If the fucker won’t burn, it gets deleted.

  • Luci Fer

    This band has no link with black metal.

  • Luci Fer

    Black Metal and Hardcore are an oxymoron. Demoncy, Krieg, Black Witchery, Averse Sefira, Forest of Impaled, Weltmacht, Leviathan and Grand Belial’s Key are Black Metal.

  • http://www.blasterpiecetheater.com Carlo Dela Cruz

    Fuck your troll comment on black metal shit. Heavy shit is heavy shit.

    • http://www.blasterpiecetheater.com Carlo Dela Cruz

      More shits is needed.

  • fart

    theyre a screamo band, they don’t have anything to do with metal, let alone black metal. two of the members are from mihai edrisch and the drummer from that is in daitro now. theyre members of the lyon screamo scene and im sure they’d appreciate it if you stopped calling them a black metal band on your metal site where your dumbass userbase who probably dont even know who pg99 are can declare them to be “EPIC WIN” and then go back to listening to the latest bullshit from mastodon

    • Kevin

      So the fact that they are in different bands that play a more of a post punk “screamo” style of music that must mean that Celeste is “screamo”
      Your logic is genius

      • fart

        you have no idea what you are talking about and you’re embarrassing yourself.

        • Alex_P

          Au contraire. C’est vous qui devrait être embarassé par votre propre ignorance.

    • Alex_P

      Let’s see… go to their Myspace…
      Genre tags:
      Hardcore / Metal / Black Metal

      Influences
      Shora, Breach, Neurosis, Daturah, Brazen, Callisto, Time to burn, Systral, Forceed, Knut, Ananda, Switchblade, Morgue, Amen Ra, Overmars, Lisabö, Meshuggah, Explosions in the sky, Godspeed, Unwound, Wolves in the throne room, Hood, Tristeza, Gantz, Do make say think, Yage, Will haven, Corea, Daitro, Nasum, Darkest hour, At The Gates, Blut Aus Nord, Mihai Edrisch, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Zeke…

      That’s a pretty good mix. Half hardcore/phc, half various metal.

      Huh. I doubt they’d be insulted to be called black metal, then. Mihai Edrisch (who were good, and whose music is also free) were not metal. I guess these guys took what they did with that band, and expanded on it without making a carbon copy. Weird, huh?

      Also, some of us do know who pg.99 and Rites of Spring are. The ones who don’t won’t because they aren’t into that music. Have you ever heard of Marduk, dumbass?

      • fart

        lol rites of spring

  • jeff

    What’s that smell?

  • Auguste

    Seen them twice in Belgium this weekend with french band Revok.
    A strong visual show: no light unless stroboscop, lot of smoke, red light on their foreheads and a massive crushing sound.
    Live video: http://www.vimeo.com/5248818