Description
GIVRE from Québec (Canada) third album „Destin messianique“. It is deeply rooted in French Canadian history with its ties to austere Catholicism – and filled to the brim with dark and epic Black-Metal-bangers, whose dense hypnotic atmospheres will bring the listeners under their spell immediately.
The group was founded back in 2010 in Rouyn-Noranda by David Caron-Proulx (Composition, guitars,
keys, mixing), Jean-Lou David (Research, vocals, guitars, keys), and Mathieu Garon (Bass, mastering)
when they were just 16 years old. They self-produced a demo album, then moved away from their
hometowns. David studied jazz guitar, arrangement, orchestration, sound design, and electroacoustics.
Jean-Lou is now a contractual writer for different newspapers and blogs; he is also employed as a
historian for a museum. In October 2020, ten years after their first collaborative endeavours, they
reunited and recorded two more albums. „Destin Messianique“, clearly shows a band that has further
sharpened its creative visions and abilities.
While some groups may be content with creating music for mere entertainment, GIVRE has higher
ambitions: The album is meant to be nothing less than a musical documentary of the early 20th-century
spiritual mission of Québec. Therefore, the record is filled with archive samples, literary citations and
field recordings, integrated in melancholic compositions, in which elements of Post Metal, Folk and
Ambient flourish between world-weary Black-Metal-riffs and tormented screams. A uniquely sounding
mixture that fits the historical background well.
The album was self-produced by guitarist and composer David in the band’s rehearsal space and in his
own home studio. Recording took place in May 2020, and mixing followed in August.
With „Destin messianique“, GIVRE invites you to reflect on the atoning side of pain. It bears testament
to the mentality of a people striving to maintain their identity while going through hardship – humble
and hard-working, resigned and Catholic. With its well-thought-out concept and atmospherically dense
compositions, the album lures the audience into sublime sadness, clings to hearts with icy fingers – and
doesn’t let go.
TRACKLIST:
1. La Sainte-Vierge intervenant en faveur de l armée française à la bataille de la Monongahéla (9 juillet
1755)
2. Le Christ aux Oliviers
3. Érable rouge
4. La voix
5. Cantique pour la canonisation de la Vénérable Jeanne d Arc
6. Le laboureur
7. Dernier martyr
8. Consécration à la Vierge par Maurice Duplessis
GENRE: Canadian Black Metal
BARCODE: 4260393745001
RELEASE DATE: 12/04/2024
