A Swiss-American project that blends extreme metal with African-American spirituals and Appalachian folk.
If you're new to them, start with 'Built On Ashes' or 'Trust No One.' Both songs show how they handle heavy themes without losing the metal edge.
The combination sounds improbable on paper, but it works because Gagneux treats both traditions with equal seriousness. Songs like 'Built On Ashes' keep the blast beats and tremolo picking while weaving in field holler melodies. That tension between brutality and sorrow gives the music its particular weight.
It began in 2014 as a solo recording project by Manuel Gagneux. The first album, 'Devil Is Fine,' arrived in 2016 and dealt directly with slavery in the American South. Later records like 'Stranger Fruit' and 'Götterdämmerung' turned more personal and apocalyptic.
Keep it compact: a lyric you come back to, a live memory, or the part of the catalog you would point someone toward first.
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