CHAOS ECHŒS
From NUCLEAR WAR NOW! PRODS.: "Deriving their name from the last album by their predecessors, Bloody Sign, Chaos Echœs established themselves as France’s masters of Avant Garde Death after quietly releasing a series of EPs featuring the band’s characteristically unorthodox material. Combining magnificent complexity, an exceptionally high degree of musicianship, and a distinct sense of experimentalism, Chaos Echœs is among the most captivating bands in the underground – a band truly incapable of simple categorization." France's Chaos Echœs were truly one of the most unique, forward-thinking, mind-bending, and genre defying metal bands to emerge in the underground in recent times. Their ritualistic death metal found such a high degree of expression nowhere else, while their keen sense of experimentalism and free-form approach to extreme metal has always yielded time after a time an utterly magnificent, mesmerizing, and extremely profound body of work. Within their framework of jazz-laden, lysergic, and almost unpredictable death metal one can always distill the purest essence of improvisation, as it is meant to be only in the most ambitious and purest forms of unshackled artistry. With no boundaries or rules limiting them, Chaos Echœs have always reached beyond and tapped into the unknown, bringing together time after time some of the most extraordinary and unsettling forms of musical synthesis ever achieved by extreme metal. With songs blending death, doom and black metal, prog, kraut, free-jazz, drone, and immaterial tribal ritualism, demos and EPs released as live improvised recordings, full-length albums always showing a fathomless ambition and experimentalism, and artwork always lying on the border between the absurd and the grandiose, Chaos Echœs were consistently from 2011 to 2019 one of the greatest bands in experimental underground metal.