Label: Nuclear Blast
Cat #: NB50960
Year: 2019
Product Type: CD Jewel Case Sealed

For principal songwriter and frontman Neige, ALCEST has always been a gateway to the otherworldly, a means of exploring his spirituality. An elemental two-piece, completed by long-serving drummer and creative confidante Winterhalter, their forthcoming sixth album »Spiritual Instinct« finds Neige at his most personal. “This time I had something urgent to put on the table,” he explains. “It is a very cathartic record - something needed to get out of me. It’s darker than usual and heavier.”

Written in bursts both during and after a prolonged period of touring in support of 2016’s hugely successful »Kodama«, the sense of urgency Neige speaks of manifests in a record full of spontaneity, of immediate impact – be that in the breath-taking pace of 'Les Jardin De Minuitn's tempo changes, or 'Sapphirea's sun-kissed harmonies over an impermeable backbeat, one thing Spiritual Instinct has is riffs, an acknowledgement and celebration of the black metal foundations that anchor their uplifting post-metal.

Recommended if you like: Wolves In The Throne Room, Agalloch, Woods of Ypres, Slostafir, Shining, Deafheaven

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