Artists

ODC

Plongez dans l'univers envoûtant d'ODC, le groupe français de Metal qui résonne au rythme effréné du Rock. Avec un son d’une grande modernité et des inspirations tout droit issues de la littérature et du cinéma, ODC crée une fusion explosive de mélodies puissantes, de sonorités électrisantes et de riffs Heavy Metal.
Porté par la voix talentueuse de Celia Do, les solos déchirants de Raphaël à la guitare, les rythmes tonitruants de Robin à la batterie et les lignes de basse de Sonny qui ébranlent le sol, ODC vous embarque dans un tourbillon sonore et un univers unique.
Depuis la sortie très remarquée de leur premier EP en 2019, ODC a embrasé les scènes à travers la France et l'Allemagne, laissant sur leur passage un public conquis et toujours plus nombreux.
Préparez-vous à une expérience métallique époustouflante qui repousse toutes les limites et plongez dans un tourbillon de folie musicale dont vous ne ressortirez pas indemnes. Accrochez-vous, le voyage d’ODC ne fait que commencer !

SEEDS OF MARY

Seeds Of Mary (Rock/Alternative Metal // Bordeaux // 2011):
Seeds Of Mary are 5 bad seeds fed with rock and Bordeaux mixture. Their music is rooted both in metal (Gojira, Katatonia, Alice In Chains, Faith No More) and rock in all its forms (Beatles, Pink Floyd) and this weed has not finished invading the territory as their numerous tours to the four corners of France attest to this alongside artists such as Phil Campbell, Dagoba, Klone, Nashville Pussy, the Wampas, Bukowski, Aqme, etc. The group presents today its latest harvest: Serendipity, a third album that is both dark and full of hope, violent and airy, focused on the future and inhabited by the past.

MESSALINE

Messaline is a Classic Rock band with vocals in French.
The first five albums received a favorable response in the specialized media (Rock Hard, VS Solutions, la Grosse Radio...) and generalists (Le Parisien and even Here!)

URGENT

Urgent was created by Yvan Quiblier (vocals) and Steff Rabilloud (guitar / backing vocals, ex-Nightmare, ex-KingCrown, currently in Rising Steel) in Grenoble (France) at the end of the 90s, completed by Yves Delelo (drums / backing vocals), Didier Teixeira (bass / backing vocals) & David Petrone, replaced by Pierre Caci (guitar) in 2015.
Urgent's music could be defined as melodic hard-rock, with a few touches of classic Heavy Metal and a hint of AOR... Heady choruses, powerful vocal harmonies, unstoppable technical and melodic solos... A subtle mix between Kiss, Pretty Maids, Rainbow and Gotthard!
For more than twenty years, Urgent has released two albums (Out of Time 2005 & Asylum 2011) and performed dozens of concerts across Europe, opening and playing with Sister Sin, Blaze Bailey, Manigance, Nightmare, Jeff Scott and others. Soto / Terry Ilous (acoustic version), Now Or Never, Satan Jokers...
Urgent are back in 2012 with a brand new album (Point Of No Return), eleven powerful and racy songs, their most accomplished and ambitious work to date, produced and mixed by Patrick 'the 6th element“ Liotard (Now Or Never,
Nightmare, KingCrown, Archange...), a stronger presence on social networks... and an undeniable desire to share their music wherever possible around the globe!

AEVUM

"Gothic Band" from Italy, born in 2007.
2015 : European tour with HAGGARD
2016 : Metal Head Meeting (Bucharest) : Eluveitie, Rotting Christ, Kreator, Dragonforce..
2018 : European tour with ORPHANED LAND
INFLUENCES : Diablo Swing Orchestra, Therion, Tristania. Haggard, Follow the Cypher, Whitin Temptation, Epica, Amaranth,
Nightwish, Lacuna antenna.
AEVUM DISCOGRAPHY:
2008 : Celestial Angels EP
2012 : Nova Vita EP
2014 : IMPRESSIONS - Full Album (Fuel Records)
2017 : DISCHRONIA - Full Album (SelfRecords)
2020 : MULTIVERSE – Full Album (DarkTunesMusic Group)
2022 : GLITCH – Full Album (DarkTunesMusic Group)

ARCHANGE

Founded in 2013 in Grenoble, Archange has spent the last few years shaping music that is passionate and full of energy. The group has continued to reinvent itself, in terms of style and sound, and to progress by integrating experienced musicians.
In 2017, its first album allows the group to make itself known, to build its fan base and to play everywhere in France in the following years.
In 2019, the arrival of Wince Wrath on vocals and Arnaud Court on bass brought the power and groove necessary for the evolution of his music, making Archange a rising star in the French metal landscape.
In 2020, “ Empire ” was released, directed by Patrick Liotard, producer inseparable from the group. His modern, powerful music, accessible to the general public, gives pride of place to heady melodies and meticulous arrangements.
Together or individually, the members of Archange have given dozens of concerts, headlining and opening for artists (Vinnie Appice, Tim "ripper" Owens, Satan Jokers, The Order, Laura Cox, Aqme, Klone , André Matos...etc).
Their energy, their communicative joy make each performance a memorable moment.
Come and discover Archange on stage: you will be won over!

RIVAGE

Rivage is a Norman hard-rock band based in Rouen. At the rendezvous of bluesy and aggressive riffs and poetic texts exclusively in French. Combine brutality and softness, a tasty contrast allowing the quintet to offer compositions with rich and varied influences. Inspired by groups from the 80s such as Sortilège, Accept, Trust or Mötley Crüe, Rivage seeks to offer a modernized sound, retaining certain sounds of the great classics of the genre. Very young on the rock scene, the group founded in October 2021 has already released its first EP "Le Sentier aux Épines" in January 2023.

Photo Thomas HAY
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MOTHER & PEARL

Mother & Pearl, founded in 2005 and active live since 2008, is a safe bet in the Lyon region, with its furious metal groove
and its intense concerts.
After launching with a very prog metal demo in 2008, the group found their style on their first album "Inner Voice", released
in 2013 at Brennus / Symbol Muzik. Rough and effective riffs, a duo of saturated / melodic voices, guitar solos
incisive, a sense of contrast, Mother & Pearl honors its references, from Machine Head to Pantera, from Opeth to Arch Enemy, from Lamb
of God at Freak Kitchen.
A second album, "Psycho Thrill", published in 2017, drives the point home: more compact, more powerful, it takes the listener by the throat,
with an even bigger sound, and an emphasis on the lyrics and the expressiveness of the song: evocation of the multiple facets of the
personality and the difficulty of making them cohabit, painful personal experiences, fictions, these disillusioned themes
direct the music towards an even darker universe. The mastering is entrusted to the German studio Kohlekeller (Benighted,
Powerwolf, Crematory...) and the cover to the English horror photographer Danielle Tunstall.
Over the years, Mother & Pearl weaves its web and secures a presence in the metal media: chronicles on the main
specialized webzines, twice in the monthly Rock Hard, a special evening on Radio Metal and many passages and
interviews on regional radios and web radios.
Concerts, the group's privileged field of expression have always gone upmarket following the album "Psycho
Thrilling”. After scouring the Lyon underground, Mother & Pearl opened for Blazing War Machine (Franky Costanza) in 2018,
for the Tambours du Bronx at Ninkasi Kao in Lyon in 2021, participates in several festivals: Leymfest in Ain with Nightmare
and Sangdragon in 2018, Springbreak Fest in Saint-Etienne in 2019, with Black Bomb A, Banane Metalik, Deathawaits, Eight Sins...
Lions Metal Fest in 2022, with Fleshgod Apocalypse, Gorod, Destinity, Carcariass, Xaon...
Having become a faithful of the mythical Rock n' Eat in Lyon (8 passages between 2018 and 2022), Mother & Pearl also shares the stage
with many good regional bands: Buy Jupiter, Dukkha, Red Gordon, Wedingoth, Holophonics, Burn Your Karma, Flayed,
Side 2 Fake, Harmorage...
In 2023, the group is entering a new phase in its history.
If the founding members Olivier Coulon (guitar, melodic vocals), Jean-François Aragon (guitar) and Michel Franchi (bass) are
still present, Mathieu Coulon (drums then saturated vocals) stopped the adventure at the end of 2022: he was replaced by Xavier Michalon (Burn
Your Karma, Soulbreeder), with which the group will resume its forward march: dates are already planned for 2023 (with The
Amsterdam Red Light District, Lodz, Spheres,

AMON SETHIS

Formed in 2007, the group Amon Sethis writes concept albums on the 7th
dynasty of the Pharaohs of Egypt. A rich universe because very few elements
history of this period have been preserved through the ages. Their music is
powerful, varied, sometimes bewitching; the musical and visual experience defended
by Amon Sethis leaves few people indifferent. The combo has released three albums:
Part I The Prophecy and Part II The Final Struggle which allowed them to open for
major groups on the international scene such as Myrath, Van den Plas, DGM,
Nightmare, Blaze Bayley, TRUST or Caligula's horse.
Their latest album, “Part 0 – Nitocris the queen with golden hair”
Was born in December 2020. Epic, varied, more orchestral, it is a real auditory gem and already allows the Rhône-alpin group to clearly change dimension.
From now on, the group is committed to defending this latest opus on stage in 2022 and 2023 while
composing the first titles of the future album planned for 2024.

CENSOR DODGE

A rock metal formation from Isère forged by many influences and steeped in rock since a young age, CENSOR DODGE is a band with its own identity and style.

Melodies, leaden riffs, effective rhythms are the foundations of the compositions which support a powerful voice and texts in French.

GRIM CIRCLE

Grim Circle is a group founded around a concept imagined in 2019 by Nicolas Le Breton, , science fiction writer: “Twelve immortals cross the ages as guardians of Civilizations. The hour of the meeting has come for them, as it comes to an end”.
Made up of 6 musicians and interpreted in French, the group is tinged with Rock pop music with very marked atmospheres, linked to the Concept (rock, industrial, Celtic, oriental, according to the theme told).
A 3-track EP is in preparation for early 2023.

JIRFIYA

JIRFIYA is a Parisian melodic metal band formed in 2019 by Ingrid Denis, Jérôme Thellier and Pascal Davoury.
They released the EP "Wait for Dawn" in 2019, and the album "Still Waiting" in 2020, both recorded at Hybreed Studio by Andrew Guillotin to critical acclaim.
JIRFIYA mixes rock, metal and progressive influences in his music, supported by strong and committed lyrics, inspired by real events, and marked by the duality of Ingrid and Jérôme's voices.
New album "W"
"W", our new opus, is a concept album on the status of women in the world. Each title tells the story of one of them, famous or anonymous, living or from the past, executioner or victim.
For this album, we decided to abandon the growls almost entirely in favor of Ingrid's voice. Guitarist Sami Kharrat also joined the line up.
"W" Credits:
Music by Jérôme Thellier. Lyrics by Ingrid Denis and Jérôme Thellier.
String arrangements by Coline Verger and Quentin Fauré.
Line up: Ingrid Denis: Vocals Jérôme Thellier: Guitar/ Bass Guitar/ Growls Nicolas Dumant: Drum Sami Kharrat: Guitar
Guests: Jules Jassef: Trumpet (tracks 1,6) Coline Verger: violin (tracks 1,3,4,5,8) Quentin Fauré: cello (tracks 1,3,4,5,8)
Graphic design by Quentin Bouilloud

ALTESIA

Altesia is a French progressive metal band from Bordeaux. Founded in 2017 by Clément Darrieu as a solo project, Altesia became a real band in early 2019. Altesia self-released its first album "Paragon Circus" on December 11, 2019, influenced by Opeth, Haken, Dream Theater and Leprous. The band's music navigates between genres, from progressive rock to progressive metal, diffusing hints of jazz, funk, pop, modern metal and even death metal. The listener will travel between calm and bewitching atmospheres, and heavy and powerful atmospheres.
Altesia releases its second album "Embryo" on October 16, 2021. Acclaimed worldwide, the group will be touring France in October 2021 and April 2021. The group will also play at the "Ready for Prog?" Toulouse (France), in October 2021, alongside Leprous, Kadinja, Noveria, and other groups.
Line-Up:
–Hugo Bernart – Bass
– Henri Bordillon – Keyboards
– Alexis Casanova – Lead guitar, backing vocals
– Clément Darrieu – Vocals, rhythm guitar
– Yann Ménage – Drums, backing vocals

LUGH

Not hesitating to feed on various influences ranging from heavy to gothic via prog, rock or melodic death, Lugh shapes his own style according to his different pieces: a heavy, energetic and dark metal. Whether in English or French, it is a question of madness, escape and death through texts served by a song that is sometimes serious and melodic, sometimes guttural and angry.

SYNAPSE

Synapse is a progressive rock quartet with jazz touches.

Over time, interpretation gave way to composition, and the creation of a first EP: IMPULSE, released in 2019.

In 2021, Synapse arrives with a new album. Recorded at the Axone studio and produced by Pierre Danel of the Kadinja group, it marks a change for Synapse towards a more powerful sound and a new way of composing.

After defending this album throughout 2022 with around thirty dates, Synapse is preparing the sequel with an EP of covers re-arranged with Prog Rock sauce, which should be released in early 2023.

Melodies in the "epic" genre with a heavy dose of rock, and progressive passages on jazz harmonies are the perfect connection to link what Synapse likes to create and play on stage.

HEMEROPLAN

Formed in 2018, Hemeroplan embodies the new progressive scene, drawing alternately from rock and metal to build a contemporary sound that owes as much to Tool as to Karnivool or Katatonia.
Concept-album around the fall into alcohol, drugs and religion, "High Tide" takes the time to develop the subject in mid-tempo pieces, alternating heavy riffs and lighter passages, with a real mastery of the instruments and what it takes solo to underline the whole thing without ever sinking into the free demonstration.

GOODBYE METEOR

Goodbye Meteor is proof that post-rock made in France still has a very bright future ahead of it. Mastering the codes of the genre to perfection, the band from Picardy delivers an immersive post-rock, painting atmospheres as immediately enveloping as they are striking. Its marvelously neat melodies, carried by guitar notes that are both ethereal and chiseled, soar delicately but no less resolutely towards the heavens, thanks to the rhythms of an elegant drum set that knows how to be as discreet as it is intense, and of a few layers of airy and inhabited voices. Claiming its attachment to nature, Goodbye Meteor is driven by the desire to find a way out to counter the devastating decline in the relationship between human beings and their environment. From its celestial and powerful flights, his music never ceases to push us to let ourselves be transported, beyond a disturbing present moment, to an elsewhere made up of liberating and sparkling hopes. (Totoromoon)

XCIII

XCIII (To a passerby…) is an Avantgarde Rock / Metal project located in France. His goal is to combine different styles ranging from Black Metal to Trip Hop without limit, but with the desire to keep a musical and lyrical coherence between all the pieces. A kind of “Total Art”, where music, words and images respond to each other. The old idea of playing folk black metal disappeared when Guillaume composed new songs, more open to new horizons, including experimental and progressive elements. The result is a dark experience around the same idea. Destroyed in the musical conception, the theme remains a whole.

FRAME

Leaving the road, brutalized patterns, outside walls and frames… Frame's soundscape takes shape according to harmonic fluctuations, blows, murmurs and cries. Enter a changing emotional flow, abyssal atmospheres and mathematical violence clash to better resonate. Enter into vibration, welcome to your inner world.

Style : Progressive Rock/Metal
Influences : Tool, A Perfect Circle, Karnivool, Porcupine Tree
Location : Valencia

ALPHA MOUNTAIN

Alpha Mountain is the new French power rock sensation. The supergroup, consisting of Steph
Honde (Hollywood Monsters, Scream Taker...), Butcho Vukovic (Watcha, Last Temptation...), Fred
Schneider (Lag I Run, Adrian Byron Burns...), Pascal Baron (Sloane Square Band, Yarol Poupaud...) and
Eric Lebailly (Adagio, Louis Bertignac...), released his first album on October 28, 2022 on the Vallis label
Lupy.

LOUIS NAS

Created by guitarist and composer LOUIS NAS, "Ominous Conclusions" is a Horror Metal Instrumental project mixing classical influences and orchestral textures with electric guitar melodies, all in a dark atmosphere like Danny Elfman, influenced in part by the universe of Howard Phillips Lovecraft.
His first album, Prequel, marks the birth of the project in 2019, with a strong Progressive Metal influence. It was in 2021, with the release of the EP "The Outsider", inspired by Lovecraft's famous short story, as well as the clip for the track Part I: Alone, that the project now took a darker and macabre turn.

BIG FAT PAPA'Z

Big Fat Papa'z was created between 2009 and 2010 with two springboards won (Massilia Rock and Sounds of Marseille)
and the recording of a first EP of six titles. The group that quickly skims the stages of the PACA region
tried out a different line-up, it was finally in 2013 that things stabilized with Damien Ricard, founder of the
band (guitar/vocals), Quentin Crénès (bass) and the arrival of Hugo Modena on drums.
In 2014 this new power trio recorded their first album of the group entitled 'The Hard Way' at the Hyperion studio.
(Marseille) and Cox In Hell (Frejus), produced by Anthony Belguise. There will follow more than a hundred dates all over France with in particular the first parts of internationally renowned artists (Eric Sardinas, King King, Jim Jones, Donald Kinsey...) as well as other victories on regional springboards (Courte Échelle 2015, Rock Trip 2015, Bagnol Blues Festival 2016) but also a series of concerts in Germany and Scotland. In 2017, the trio composed a new album and decided to recruit Nils Kirchner as solo guitarist (ex-Oil Carter) to expand the line-up. In April 2017 the group made a remarkable first part of Seasick Steve in Marseille then recorded the new album "Soul On Fire" which was released on November 17, 2017.
In 2018, the group returned to its initial formula following the departure of Hugo Modena, Damien resuming his position as
original singer/drummer. But in 2020, after two years and many dates in the company of Nils, the group decides to reintegrate Hugo and find its historic formation in power trio with Damien as frontman.
guitar/vocals. Between 2021 and 2022, Big Fat Papa'z performs numerous concerts in France and opens for the famous American rock'n'roll group Nashville Pussy as well as The Lords Of Altamont in Marseille.
In October 2022, the trio returns to the studio to prepare their 4th opus "Fat Power" to be released in March/April 2023.
BIG FAT PAPA'Z draws its inspiration from rock, soul and blues from the 60s and 70s. BIG FAT PAPA'Z is above all a very typical voice, with a unique energy and power associated with a revisited style of blues, with testosterone sauce, which they qualify as Heavy or Hard Blues. But also concerts with strong pulsations,
crazy, interspersed with beautiful walks and white-hot solos.

QAMELTO

Formed in 2019, QAMELTO is a French rock band from Clermont that brings a bit
of freshness in the hexagonal landscape by building a singular French rock, whose framework takes its form in Muse, Foo Fighters, Noel Gallagher, Incubus or Freak
Kitchen and the summit in the abundant language of our country.
Raf, Thom, Alex and Janus, respectively singer, guitarist, bassist and drummer,
released their first EP "SORS" in January 2020, six direct and inside tracks,
energetic and powerful, heady and captivating whose choruses will remain for sure in the minds of those who listen to them.
“SORS” was recorded by Jonathan Verne at L’Hacienda Studios, known for
their precise and demanding work (Vianney, Blankass, Enhancer, Celkilt...). Verne succeeded
brilliantly to bring out of the speakers what the four musicians heard in their heads.
Whether we like it or not, QAMELTO is here...

RAVENS CREW

Ravens Crew is above all a group of friends who share the same common passion: music,
rock'n roll!
Created in 2015, the group began by criss-crossing the bars of the Picardy capital and its surroundings. Her
register: covers from the biggest standards of the international rock scene. The desire to compose
to go further with much more personal projects is then felt...
It is at the end of 2019 that the compos adventure begins. The musical universe is very rock and the texts in French.
Anyway, we're called Ravens Crew and we do Rock'n Roll!

DUSK Of DELUSION

Born in 2016, the group Dusk of Delusion brings together members of Lorraine bands (Akroma,
Forsaken World, La Horde, Elvaron and RedLine) around a common desire to find the stage by offering direct and energetic music. Quickly after the first concerts (including the
first part of Blazing War Machine with Franky Costanza), Dusk of Delusion released their first album entitled (F)unfair on the Fantai'Zic label. The concept of the disc is based on the theme of 19th century fairgrounds where each stand turns out to be a cynical mirror of our modern society.
The album will be defended during a tour of thirty five dates which will end in the first part of Mass
Hysteria at the Other Canal in Nancy in November 2019. The group's stage performances are hailed from all sides by the public and critics.
In March 2020, Dusk of Delusion released a second album: Watch Your 6. In this new opus, History with a capital H is a key element. Watch Your 6 takes us on the paths of the First World War to tell us stories of the lives of soldiers, civilians, men or
of women, French, English, German or Russian who tell their experience of the conflict and the feelings that go through them.
In March 2021, an EP entitled World at War extends this historical concept with 5 songs.
Not stopping on the way and strong of the recent signature with the Lorraine label Metal East, the group
is preparing a new album: COrollarian RObotic SYStem. The songs here leave the past and we
take you to a dark and disturbing dystopian future where after an armed conflict in Europe,
the COROSYS company floods the world with its "Corollaries": anthropomorphic robots that
quickly become the dregs of this new society. Recorded, mixed and mastered at Boundless
Studio, this ambitious concept album is based on a short story specially written for the occasion
by Benoit Guillot with which Dusk Of Delusion will take on a new dimension thanks to an identity
bolder sound, both melodic and catchy, but also cut and surgical.