Music review: Amesoeurs - Ruines Humaines (2006)

Continuing down the list of my favourite albums, still in the "A" section (it's got 60 entries…). Here we have the 2nd work in the blackgaze canon, mixing the sound of proto-depressive black metal (Burzum, Strid) with that of gothic rock (Joy Division, early Siouxsie and the Banshees) into a pretty much perfect EP.

Especially compared to Alcest which lost too much black metal edge (notably in the vocal department) and quickly became stale. Actually, I think I can hear some Peste Noire too, which would make sense since Neige was part of it and helped on La Sanie des siècles: Panégyrique de la dégénérescence that emerged two months earlier.

Can't say much more about this melancholic masterpiece, other than it's rare for an album cover to match its sound this well and that I wish we'd gotten an additional track or two.