ALBUM REVIEW: Pilori, “Quand Bien Meme L’Enfer et le Deluge S’abbattraient sur Nous”

By: Richard Maw
 
Album Type: Full Length
Date Released: 26/08/2022
Label: 7 degrees | Abyssal Cvlt | Bad Moon Rising |
Black Omega Recordings | Black Terror Distro | BRC-30
Coups de Couteau | Hecatombe Records | Itawak Records |
Black Omega Recordings | Black Terror Distro | BRC-30
Coups de Couteau | Hecatombe Records | Itawak Records |
Loner Cult | Sleepy Dog Records | Terrain Vague | Ugly & Proud Records |
Wrecking Crew Records |Total Dissonance Worship

 
 
“Quand Bien Meme L’Enfer et le Deluge S’abbattraient sur Nous” CD//CS/DD//LP  track listing:
 
1. De Guerre Lasse
2. Meurtrière
3. Entre Chien Et Loup (feat. Gabriel Dubko from Implore)
4. Maelström
5. Quand Bien Même L'Enfer...
6. Une Livre De Chair
7. Où Gisent Les Ancres
8. Au Prix De Tous Les Sacrifices
9. En Haut Des Cimes
10. ...Et Le Déluge
 
The Review:

Clearly, these French blackened crust/death/grind merchants are not trying to be as accessible as possible to non-French speakers; the titles are stretching my GCSE level of French well beyond its meagre limits. Regardless of language barriers, this is furious and ferocious stuff. There is a post metal element to their sound with dissonant guitar work rearing up now and again. The bass tone is suitably grimy, the drums thrash, blast and roll with admirable aggression and the whole experience is one of being wrapped in barbed wire and thrown down a (French) hill, perhaps landing in the moat of a chateau at the bottom.
 
The album has the speed and power to mix it with any band booked for the smaller stages at Damnation festival and the record rattles by at a fair clip. The band do what they do extremely well with real grind elements mixing with a very blackened feel, “Maelstrom” (that one I can understand!) is exactly like the title implies while elsewhere the band mixes hardcore, black metal, grindcore, post metal and punk elements to concoct a heady mixture that works.
 
It's an exhausting listen and one for fans of genre blending bands. The band are active and gigging in France- perhaps they will make the trip across from Rouen to the UK? I’m confident that everyone from crust punks to black metal fans would enjoy this both on record and in the live arena. Frightening stuff.
 
“Quand Bien Meme L’Enfer et le Deluge S’abbattraient sur Nous” is available HERE 

Band info: piloriband