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Alcest
Albums : 16     Total votes : 316     Reviews : 23
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Alcest

CountryFrance
Formed1999, Bagnols-sur-Cèze, Languedoc-Roussillon
CurrentlyParis, Île-de-France, France
GenresShoegaze, Blackgaze, Post-Metal
LabelsNuclear Blast
Years active1999-present
Website

Line-up (members)

  • Neige : Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Drums, Keyboards (1999-present)
  • Winterhalter : Drums (2009-present)

Former members

  • Argoth : Bass (2000-2001)
  • Aegnor : Lead Guitars (2000-2001)
  • Béki : Drums (2000)

Touring members

  • Indria : Bass (2010-present)
  • Zero : Guitars, Backing Vocals (2010-present)
  • Past
  • Fursy Teyssier : Bass (2010)
  • Zoé : Guitars (2013)
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Alcest - Shelter CD Photo by roykhanAlcest - Les voyages de l'âme CD Photo by roykhanAlcest - Écailles de lune CD Photo by roykhanAlcest - Souvenirs d'un autre monde CD Photo by roykhanAlcest - Les voyages de l'âme CD Photo by Evil DeadAlcest - Souvenirs d'un autre monde CD Photo by Stradivarius

Alcest Discography

AlbumLyrics TypeRelease dateRatingVotesReviews
Demo86.341
LyricsEP88.1172
Alcest - Souvenirs d'un autre mondeLyricsAlbum89.1855
Split7510
Split73.520
Alcest - Écailles de luneLyricsAlbum92.2798
EP88.490
Single-00
Alcest - Les voyages de l'âmeLyricsAlbum85.7514
Live7510
Single-00
Alcest - ShelterLyricsAlbum74.5362
Alcest - KodamaLyricsAlbum80.8150
Alcest - Spiritual InstinctLyricsAlbum89.3161
Single-00
Alcest - Les chants de l'auroreLyricsAlbum-00

Alcest Videos

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Additional notes
Solo project of Neige. As a child, Neige had dreams about a "Fairy Land", "a place with colours, forms and sounds that do not exist here." The music of Alcest is highly influenced by these dream experiences.

The band started out playing raw black metal with a line-up including Famine.

Alcest soon evolved into metal with strong post-rock and shoegaze influences, a completely original style that would have been labeled as blackgaze around mid 2010s and which influenced many well known bands like Lantlôs, Deafheaven and Harakiri for the Sky.

The band's name Alcest doesn't have any meaning; Neige just chose it for its noble ethereal sound and couldn't imagine any other name in its pronunciation ("Al-sest", IPA: [al'sɛst]) to fit better with this music.

Neige has stated multiple times that Alcest is not affiliated in any way with far right ideologies and that all the ambiguos collaborations with bands and musicians from such contexts have been errors he vehemently regreets. In a detailed Instagram post from 2021 he stated that Alcest and himself stand against any form of discrimination, racism, homophobia or transphobia and that the message of Alcest is about love and acceptance.
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