#french coldwave bands

[mobilesuitlilah]

Corps Diplomatique - Les Métamorphoses du Vampire

French coldwave band Corps Diplomatique released a single 7" in 1988 and a handful of tracks on the La muse vénale cassette compilation before dropping off the map. Thankfully their material is getting reissued/released for the first time, because turns out they're great! I'm absolutely in love with their sound. The Dans Ta Nuit compilation just dropped today via Dark Entries and it's very much worth a listen, just a great dark and dancable time

[deadchovsky]

My friend and I are doing a project in our french class about coldwave/French goth bands, here are some of my favorites so far!

Deadchovsky, Death rock, Gothic rock (4k listeners on Spotify)

Corpus Delicti, Gothic rock (35k listeners on Spotify)

Soror Dolorosa, Coldwave (4k listeners on Spotify)

Hante. Darkwave, synthpop (83k listeners on Spotify)

The Cemetary Girlz Gothic rock, Death rock (22k listeners on spotify)

Frank (just Frank), Coldwave. (1k listeners on Spotify)

Film Noir, New wave, Post Punk, Darkwave (16k listeners on Spotify)

Palissade, Coldwave, Darkwave. (600 listeners on Spotify)

[z428]

Still waking up, sort of. https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=ntjkoM41P6E

[thedarkcornerwithdjevildave]

From the Shadows is the debut release from The Hagley Wood Vampires, a rather eclectic dark alternative band from the UK. By even their own admissions on Bandcamp, the Vampires list a number of genres spanning from gothic folk to industrial rock. It's a lot to take in at first, despite being only 8 songs. That may seem short, but Tactical Neural Implant is only 8 songs and that is Front Line Assembly's masterpiece. Anyhow, it's uncommon to hear chuggy metal guitar or a blues rock solo against the ghosts and cobwebs conjured by the more haunting and ethereal woman vocals. It is an interesting juxtaposition reminiscent of Bow Ever Down. Lyrically, the Vampires offer the usual skeletons and vampires with that touch of dark romance, thematically tying together an otherwise near haphazard collection of tracks. What helps bind the album even more so is the DIY production, a slight tinniness that sounds as if it were recorded at a home studio. While a less glossy master might turn off some listeners, I found it added a certain charm. The mix adds a raw intimacy that runs counterpoint to some of the more French coldwave elements as might be found in a cold and lonely mausoleum. I'm curious to hear more, to see if the band focuses their sound or continues to lift elements both modern and classic, from cinematic synth pads to a jangly and watery guitar tone. Standout songs for me include the more classically gothic Vampire Sorrow and the epic folk metal Lone Wolf.

[th3-0bjectivist]

    Dear listener, I’ve been in a really dark mood lately, so open your mind REAL WIDE because this week’s music pick is a doozy. It’s kind of hard for me to explain this week’s act, because they’re weird as all shit, but I’ll try my best to summarize. There’s this dark wave group I’ve known for about a decade called Die Form, who were never big mostly because their music is widely deemed too disturbing for the mainstream. Despite being around since the late 1970′s and having a catalog that mostly centers around the spicy subjects of eroticism and death, I’ll bet this is the first time you’ve heard of them. Ain’t it? I’d be surprised if you have, as this performance act from France isn’t exactly as popular as, say, a similar group like Skinny Puppy. DF’s brand of coldwave and neo-classical electronics has always been very memorable to me, if for no other reason than they pushed boundaries in music in bizarre ways. Their tones are VERY dark, boasting unconventional electronic beats and effects that you CAN’T find anywhere else, and backed up since the late 1980′s by the booming and haunting voice of one Éliane P. This tune is by a country mile my favorite track of theirs, Morphosis from the 2006 album ExHuman, which interestingly was a counterpart and sequel to their 2004 album InHuman. It’s highly experimental, it’s kinda goth overall, and many of their latest albums contain less voice and more atmospherics for those who appreciate a little variety. Smash play and go down a rabbit hole that is both dangerous and, in some cases, very taboo, their most extreme topics including subjects like necrophilia... to name just one. This stuff may be too dark for you, or it could just tickle you in your audio no-no place... as it certainly does for me. Get out of that rigid comfort zone and enjoy something different for a change!

Image credit: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4EtqRPBTABMndC9NYOkBAA

[nugothrhythms]

“Weimar” by Swiss and French coldwave band Factice Factory off of their 2021 album Figments

[princessa-puppeteer]

Watch "Opéra De Nuit - Annabella" on YouTube

One of my favorite Coldwave band😍😍😍

[mobilesuitlilah]

Martin Dupont - Full Moons and Mouths

Cohost is dead, Bluesky feels miserable, and I'm ready to make my grand return to MUSIC POSTING. Here we go!! In my never-ending search for more good goth music, I have fallen into an obsession with 80s cold wave. Coldwave, like most genre classifications, is fairly loose - less a strict taxonomy, more a descriptor invented by music journalists to describe a particular music scene, a set of bands drawing from similar influences and influencing each other. Derived from post-punk and ostensibly a goth subgenre, it developed in Europe on the edges of the blast radius of the UK's goth explosion, with separate and largely disconnected scenes in France/Belgium and Poland. As such there's a fascinating fluidity and diversity to the sound, a willingness to experiment and dovetail with new wave, punk, minimal synth, and synthpop that give it a unique flavor of its own.

So far, I've largely been exploring French coldwave, and have only just started dipping my toes into the Polish scene. And of all the bands I've found, Martin Dupont is one of my favorites. Formed in Marseilles in 1980, they released three albums and a cassette (all with incredibly striking covers) and toured with Siouxsie and the Banshees before breaking up in 1988. Their excellent debut album, _Just Because..._, established a uniquely icy minimal synth sound with dueling masc/femme vocals. But their third album, _Hot Paradox_, is the masterpiece, fusing their cold wave sound with a dose of hot-blooded new wave energy and busier production, creating something exciting and uniquely danceable as a result.

The whole album is wonderful straight through, but album opener "Full Moon and Mouths" is a great indication of what you're in for - dark, foreboding, and fun as hell.

[wedig45grave]

Asylum Party- Julia (1988)

[hallundecho]

Saigon Blue Rain - ethereal cold wave band from France / Czechia