Jordan Vauvert
《 Sale chien
J'te croyais mort 》
— "Diapsiquir", Virus S.T.N.. Diapsiquir.
Vous avez survécu aux aboiements de Cerbère alors, désireux de jouer les héros, c'est avec impatience que vous vous jetterez dans Cendre, premier album des trois molosses parisiens. Dans ce cas, prenez garde : la créature infernale a évolué. En plus du stoner, du sludge et du doom metal, noise et drone viennent se rajouter comme autant de têtes supplémentaires prêtes à mordre. Le feu de Cendre va vous lécher les tympans.
Favorite track: Les Tours De Set.
Non Serviam
Ils sont vicieux, ils poussent les ingés son au suicide, leurs amplis sont plus gros que ton cercueil, Thulsa Doom a peur de leur son en live. Vraiment un album mémorable de sludge français, c'est assez rare, profitons en vite avant qu'arrive l'album de la maturité (avec du synthé, de l'harmonica et une interlude blues), car il sera déja trop tard.
Favorite track: Les Tours De Set.
Cendre was recorded across two days in January 2022 at the band’s rehearsal space (Le Ventre de la Baleine in Pantin, France), by Pablo Saguez, and mastered by experimental music artist and producer Paulie Jan at Agit Prop Studio. It falls within the doom and sludge heritage while incorporating elements that come in counterpoint of this dynamic, losing the listener in a monolithic maze of hatred and filth.
Noise, drone and black metal influences can be heard throughout Baptiste P.’s guitar arrangements and cavernous screaming in french. Cerbère‘s music is ruled by a sharp contrast between a visceral urgency and a telluric trance through the prism of darkness. Lyrically, the album also explores various themes that illustrate such contrast : the torments of a youth lived in boredom, hatred, frustration and rejection on the eponymous track, a boundary-free escapism from everyday life, as well as introspection with the epic river track "Les Tours De Set" inspired by the Conan The Barbarian saga.
This new sledgehammer of heaviness is released by parisian label Chien Noir.
credits
released January 27, 2023
Composed by Cerbère :
Baptiste P. : guitar and vocals
Thom Dezelus : bass
Baptiste Reig : drums
Recorded & mixed by Pablo Saguez at Le Ventre de la Baleine, Pantin, january 2022.
Mastered by Paulie Jan at Agit Prop Studio.
"It’s catchy, it’s filthy, it’s darker than the blackest black, and it feels like a slow descent to a hellish place […] Cendre is definitely putting France onto the map of sludge greatness. […] It’s a solid 8 out of 10."
-The Sleeping Shaman (UK)
www.thesleepingshaman.com/reviews/cerbere-cendre/
"Aplastante sludge desde muchas perspectivas como implacable estreno de Cerbère."
-La Habitation235 (Spain)
www.lahabitacion235.com/tag/cerbere
“One of the most interesting newcomers to emerge from the Paris scene, and their unique brand of blackened sludge is addictive and borderline terrifying.”
-Two Guys Metal Reviews (USA)
www.twoguysmetalreviews.com/2023/01/cerbere-cendre.html
“Un premier album impressionnant de méchanceté et de professionnalisme, qui replace le Sludge et le Doom au centre des débats.” -Metalnews (FR)
www.metalnews.fr/chroniques/cendre
"Vaya que estos chicos logran encarnar la oscuridad en su música[...]metal puro y crudo, que te sumergirá sin piedad hasta hipnotizarte por su sonoridad o hacer que te revienten los oídos."
8.5/10 -Headbangers (Latino America)
headbangersla.com/review-cerbere-cendre-2023/
You know that point where you have consumed perhaps just a little too much of your chosen intoxicate. That's this album.
Fucking heavy!!! Obstacle of Affliction