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Beers, parties and burgers- Interview with Royer and Johan, respectively – drummer and vocalist of French band Celeste

Posted on April 11, 2012 by Ola

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Contrast – that’s a keyword , that perfectly describes French quartet Celeste from Lyon. The band creates dark, disturbing music, originating from post metal, black metal, hardcore, which engages listeners completely. But behind the stage, the guys are easy-going, eager-to-have-fun people, keen on crazy jokes. There is no darkness involved then.

The performances if Lyon-based quartet, perfectly enforce the music’s atmosphere. Each time this is a spectacle, during which the silhouettes of the artists, performing in total darkness, can be seen only thanks to the red lamps, located on their heads. Celeste’s show at Asymmetry Festival will be definitely quite an event. A few weeks before the show we asked vocalist Johan and drummer Royer about their inspirations, situation with catholic church in France and we tried to find out, where fans can expect follow-up album to great “Morte(s) Nee(s)” from 2010.
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Celeste- “Nihiliste(s)”- the beauty of dark nihilism

Posted on April 2, 2012 by Ola

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CELESTE – “Nihiliste(s)”; release year: 2008; label: Denovali Records

 

So it began – let me start like in a joke in one of Monty Python’s skits, “Mice Problem”. A very funny skit of course. Celeste’s music is quite the opposite. It’s soaked with sinister darkness, coldness, with terror and emotions radiating from it so intensively, that one can’t listen to the Frenchmen’s debut without fully submerging oneself in it.

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Posted on December 11, 2011 by Lukasz

Genre: black-metal, hardcore

The French Celeste’s visit during Asymmetry Festival, will be another chance of seeing their show in Poland. Since their origination, the band consistently follows the vision of combining post-hardcore stylistics with black-metal motorics, at the same time remembering about broadening, with every release, the spectrum of their characteristic extreme sound. Simultaneously, the performances if this Lyon-based quartet, perfectly render the music’s atmosphere, touching on notions concerned with the darkest aspects of human existence. We are talking about a spectacle, during which the silhouettes of the artists, performing in total darkness, can be seen only thanks to the red lamps, located on their heads, which gaze envious from beyond the smoke fumes and stroboscope lights.

Website: www.denovali.com/celeste

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