"Outcast as a bastard / the kind of error we regret / … / hanged in an a oul rope, dry, tight and unflattering / … / a family photograph, on the jammed horizon / a kid on the grill / poached and abused"

Expressionistic, sophisticated, evolved, overflowing, pitch-black. Just a few words, a desperate attempt to properly approach ANIMALE(S), the fifth full-length record of the French combo CELESTE from Lyon. While their former albums PESSIMISTE(S) (2006), NIHILISTE(S) (2008), MISANTHROPE(S) (2009) and MORTE(S) NEE(S) (2010) have all been finished in a few months, it took them all the last three years to craft this concept double album. Unsurprisingly, the result of this long process is an opus which is so loaded and dense that it can barely withstand its inner pressure.

"Your most despicable wanderings did not even mime the slightest detail of this scene / even this helping hand you reject, like the outstretched hands with which we strike you every day / … / can her tears release you / can your soul calm down for once"

The concept behind ANIMALE(S) is the bleak story of a boy and a girl, a kind of love story with a tragic ending. A story about how tough youth can be if parents discard their responsibilities. For once in metal-oriented music, a closer look at artwork and lyrics gives a new dimension to a record and is indispensable for a comprehensive and complete experience of this double album.

"Cold, squeezed too much / rolled around by vagabonds in hostility / creased by strength and rocked / in a linen without trust / then dragged face downwards"

Musically, ANIMALE(S) sees CELESTE developing their metal and hardcore oriented sound in different directions. Their music was always characterised by the interaction of monumental melodies, dark riffs, violent drums and expressive lyrics, but on the new album all these ingrediences are more expressed. The last three years' time ha.......
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