SETH

Black Metal • France
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Seth is a French black metal band. Formed in 1994, they went on hiatus in the period 2005-2011. They have released a number of albums and other types of release.
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SETH Les Blessures de l'Âme album cover 4.00 | 1 ratings
Les Blessures de l'Âme
Black Metal 1998
SETH l'Excellence album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
l'Excellence
Black Metal 2000
SETH Divine-X album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Divine-X
Black Metal 2002
SETH Era-Decay album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Era-Decay
Black Metal 2004
SETH The Howling Spirit album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Howling Spirit
Black Metal 2013
SETH La Morsure du Christ album cover 4.00 | 3 ratings
La Morsure du Christ
Black Metal 2021
SETH La France des maudits album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
La France des maudits
Black Metal 2024

SETH EPs & splits

SETH By Fire, Power Shall Be... album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
By Fire, Power Shall Be...
Black Metal 1997
SETH War Vol. III album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
War Vol. III
Black Metal 2000

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SETH Apocalyptic Desires album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Apocalyptic Desires
Black Metal 1996

SETH re-issues & compilations

SETH Nastivity album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Nastivity
Black Metal 2003

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SETH Les Blessures de l'Âme

Album · 1998 · Black Metal
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Hymn for a vampire...

Genre: black metal

One thing that I have learned on my educational journey through the universe of black metal so far is that one of the countries with the most interesting black metal scene is France. One of the representatives of the French black metal scene is the band Seth which was formed already back in 1995. Originally released in 1998, Seth's debut was rereleased earlier this summer and enhanced with a new artwork (I like the old one better though) and two bonus tracks.

Having never heard Seth before, I did not know what to expect, but I was definitely positively surprised by the album. The seven tracks on the album (or nine tracks if you include the bonus tracks) combine the harshness of raw and aggressive black metal in the vein of Mayhem with a more melodic approach. Thus you get tremolo picking and fast (really fast!) blastbeats side by side with heavy and slow passages (and sometimes almost folk-like melodies), often accompanied by atmospheric keyboards and piano effects which sometimes generates an almost Gothic feel.

This melodic and Gothic aspect goes well together with the lyrical matter of the album which focuses on vampyrism. And, metal elitists, fear not - this is not your teen-friendly vampiric Gothic metal. The black metal aesthetics are dominant on the album and, although the production is far from lo-fi, the intensity that characterizes black metal is ubiquitous on this album. It is, however, paired with a sense of melancholic darkness, so perhaps the album even qualifies as depressive black metal... at least in terms of musical expressiveness.

In any case, Seth's "Les Blessures de l'Âme" is yet another example of the innovative spirit of French black metal and, if you like melodic black metal and even symphonic black metal that retains the intensity of the genre, then you might want to invest in the reissued version of this fine album.

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