LP – Limited Edition Solid Green Vinyl.

Blackgaze pioneers Alcest dive back into metal territories without losing any of their ethereal powers. Spiritual Instinct might be their most balanced full-length to date, and sees the band reach for breathtaking new heights in a genre they started defining nearly 20 years ago.

On their sixth album and first for Nuclear Blast, both metal and shoegaze parts of Alcests DNA seem to coexist as harmoniously as ever, allowing them to go further in both directions.The influence of the second wave of Scandinavian black metal rarely appeared so undiluted in their music. And the amount of astonishing riffs and cascades of blast beats here never overshadows an impeccable songwriting that has all the brilliance of the early days of Ride and radiates with the same mysterious halo that can be heard on the Cocteau Twins work.

FFO: Darkthrone, Slowdive, Chelsea Wolfe, Mogwai, Immortal, Sigur Rs

Tracklist:

Side A
1 Les jardins de minuit
2 Protection
3 Sapphire

Side B
1 L’le des Morts
2 Le Miroir
3 Spiritual Instinct