Cendre was recorded across two days in January 2022 at the band’s rehearsal space (Le Ventre de la Baleine in Pantin, France), by Pablo Saguez, and mastered by experimental music artist and producer Paulie Jan at Agit Prop Studio. It falls within the doom and sludge heritage while incorporating elements that come in counterpoint of this dynamic, losing the listener in a monolithic maze of hatred and filth.
Noise, drone and black metal influences can be heard throughout Baptiste P.’s guitar arrangements and cavernous screaming in french. Cerbère‘s music is ruled by a sharp contrast between a visceral urgency and a telluric trance through the prism of darkness. Lyrically, the album also explores various themes that illustrate such contrast : the torments of a youth lived in boredom, hatred, frustration and rejection on the eponymous track, a boundary-free escapism from everyday life, as well as introspection with the epic river track "Les Tours De Set" inspired by the Conan The Barbarian saga.
This new sledgehammer of heaviness is released by parisian label Chien Noir.
released January 27, 2023
Composed by Cerbère :
Baptiste P. : guitar and vocals
Thom Dezelus : bass
Baptiste Reig : drums
Recorded & mixed by Pablo Saguez at Le Ventre de la Baleine, Pantin, january 2022.
Mastered by Paulie Jan at Agit Prop Studio.
Artwork and layouts by Thom Dezelus.
Released by Chien Noir (
chiennoirprod.bandcamp.com)
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PRESS
"It’s catchy, it’s filthy, it’s darker than the blackest black, and it feels like a slow descent to a hellish place […] Cendre is definitely putting France onto the map of sludge greatness. […] It’s a solid 8 out of 10."
-The Sleeping Shaman (UK)
www.thesleepingshaman.com/reviews/cerbere-cendre/
"Horrible dragging sludge with a real bite to it."
-The Ninehertz Podcast (UK)
www.ninehertz.co.uk/viewitem/5362
"Aplastante sludge desde muchas perspectivas como implacable estreno de Cerbère."
-La Habitation235 (Spain)
www.lahabitacion235.com/tag/cerbere
“One of the most interesting newcomers to emerge from the Paris scene, and their unique brand of blackened sludge is addictive and borderline terrifying.”
-Two Guys Metal Reviews (USA)
www.twoguysmetalreviews.com/2023/01/cerbere-cendre.html
“A monolithic punch to your temple.”
-The Metal Epidemic (UK)
www.metalepidemic.com/cerbere-cendre/
“Sprawling, slothful, this is some pretty heady doom.”
-Metal Injection (USA)
metalinjection.net/av/top-tracks-of-the-week/cerbere-icd10-malleus-among-others-for-gimme-metals-top-tracks-of-the-week
“Archaïque et violent, ce Cendre est une belle surprise.”
-Soil Chronicles (FR)
www.soilchronicles.fr/chroniques/cerbere-cendre
“Un premier album impressionnant de méchanceté et de professionnalisme, qui replace le Sludge et le Doom au centre des débats.” -Metalnews (FR)
www.metalnews.fr/chroniques/cendre
"Vaya que estos chicos logran encarnar la oscuridad en su música[...]metal puro y crudo, que te sumergirá sin piedad hasta hipnotizarte por su sonoridad o hacer que te revienten los oídos."
8.5/10 -Headbangers (Latino America)
headbangersla.com/review-cerbere-cendre-2023/
