Alcest

Thursday, March 22nd at Will’s Pub
norsekorea and 90 proof productions presents

ALCEST
http://www.facebook.com/alcest.official

DEAFHEAVEN
http://deafheavens.bandcamp.com/

LEGIONS
http://legionsfl.bandcamp.com/

FIRE IN THE CAVE
https://www.facebook.com/fireinthecave


$8 advance / $10 day of, 18+, 9pm

“Alcest was formed as a solo project by Neige in 2000. Soon after, the band became a three-piece black metal outfit, consisting of Neige on vocals, rhythm/acoustic guitar, and drums, Argoth on bass, and Aegnor (now known as La sale Famine de Valfunde. Famine used Neige as a session drummer and live rhythm guitarist in the early years of Peste Noire) on lead guitar. In 2001, the band released a 4-track demo tape entitled Tristesse Hivernale on Drakkar Productions in which Famine wrote the main riff of the song “La Forêt de Cristal”. Not long after the demo was released, the band once again became a one-man entity, with Neige taking Alcest in a more personal direction. Neige, having originally formed Alcest as an outlet to create cold and raw black metal, moved away from the minimalist approach with the follow-up to Tristesse Hivernale, entitled Le Secret. This EP, released in May 2005, is an introduction of sorts to the new concept behind the reformed Alcest. After having signed to Prophecy Productions in March 2007, Alcest’s debut album Souvenirs d’un autre monde was released in early August of the same year, and drew comparisons with the likes of My Bloody Valentine and Jesu.In August 2007, Tristesse Hivernale was released by Northern Silence Productions in August 2007 as a split with French black metal band Angmar.
Alcest’s second album, Écailles de Lune (Scales of the Moon), was released March 29, 2010. The band’s third album, Les Voyages de L’Âme, was released on January 6, 2012.”