Siódmy album AUTARCIE jeszcze w tym miesiącu

 

Today, Purity Through Fire sets April 30th as the international release date for Autarcie's highly anticipated seventh album, Apogée.Ivresse.Agonie, on CD, A5 digipack, vinyl LP, and cassette tape formats.

 

Since 2006, Autarcie have stood as a proud firmament of French black metal rooted in ancient times. The duo have delivered six full-lengths to date, always with a vitality that's grounded in tradition but burning with an unquenchable intensity that's very much of the present. Of course, nostalgic is their vision and thus their lyricism largely focuses on the past, but the crux of Autarcie's vision is about preserving those past expressions and carrying them on for future generations - in effect, black metal as modern-era folklore - and rigorously portraying them in dazzling obsidian hues which fondly recall the Concilium collective whilst dramatically daubing them in a melodicism that's medieval as it is melancholic.

One could argue that French black metal has been dead forever: ravens pick at the corpses of the Black Legions still, those dried-up sinews not fit for consumption no matter how many generations removed, and urban decay has covered much of the prevailing paradigm for nearly two decades, incorrectly assumed to be a uniting (and uniquely) French expression. One would be right, too. Autarcie return at the right time, not so much shouldering this burden as carrying a spiritual weight that's solely concerned with naturalism and its myriad portrayals thereof. Romantic is this path, in the purest definition of the word, and Apogée.Ivresse.Agonie is the brilliant canvas.

Get a teasing glimpse of that canvas with a special album trailer HERE at Purity Through Fire's official YouTube channel. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Autarcie's Apogée.Ivresse.Agonie
1. Prélude
2. Nation
3. France Profonde
4. Regnum Francorum
5. Le bardit des hardis
6. Gladio vivere, gladio morietur
7. Apogée.Ivresse.Agonie
8. Postlude