Mourir / France

Mourir (Pelagic Records, Black Metal, France)

Initially the brainchild of former Plebeian Grandstand's bassist Olivier L., MOURIR is the full-band follow-up to his one-man project Vermine. Bolstered by the addition of members from BRUIT ≤, Toucan & Drawers, the Toulouse-based quatuor quickly evolved in France’s most well kept black metal monstrosity, one eviscerating studio effort after another with 2 albums “Disgrâce” (2023) & Animal Bouffe Animal (2020) released on Throatruiner Records (Fange, Imperial Triumphant) & recorded at Apiary studio by Amaury Sauvé (Birds in Row, Sorcerer). 

Equally influenced by early norwegian forefathers as well as the dissonant approach of their fellow countrymen, MOURIR's take on black metal propels the band as new heirs of the french black metal scene - faithful to the genre's frameworks while adding their own modern touch. Their latest EP Insolence released in January 2025 on Pelagic Records (The Ocean, Year of No Light), brings their non-stop barrage of majestic guitar leads, pounding drums and bone-chilling ghoulish howls to new states of sonic anguish and psychotic dissonance !