Review: Galibot – Catabase
English: When we started Merg en Been Magazine in 2025, one of the very first bands we reviewed was the Northern French
Tag: France
Review: Iffernet – Life at Heart
English: Hailing from the historic city of Rouen, the duo Iffernet now presents its third full-length album. Since their formation in 2018,
Interview: Horion
I recently became acquainted with the new French band Horion through Void Wanderer Productions. With the EP “Doom,” the band presents its
Review: Horion – Doom
ENGLISH: The artwork is intriguing, elusive, and evocative… That same sense of atmosphere permeates Horion’s debut EP, “Doom”. With each repeated listen,
Review: Hyver – Shaâtaunoâr
“An Album in which you are the hero,” reads the cover of the new release by the French Dungeon Synth/Black Metal project
Review: Noirsuaire – The Dragging Poison
The French Noirsuaire is said—according to the encyclopedia of metallic truth—to hail from Montségur, the enigmatic village featured in Dan Brown’s novels,
Reviews: Les Batards du Roi – Les Chemins de L’exil
That members of royal houses were notoriously fond of indulging their sexual desires was common knowledge among the common folk. Throughout history
Review: Destruction Ritual – Providence LP
The French and Americans have generally gotten along well ever since the War of Independence in 1776. This was certainly the case
Review: Inritvm – Ex Nihilo ad Nihilum CD
Not much is known about the band Inritvm, they released a demo in 2023 called Ex nocte ad nihilum (roughly translated to:
Review: Esoctrilihum – Ghostigmatah – SpirItual Rites of the Psychopomp Abxulöm DLP
Esoctrihilum, a one man project that saw its first light in 2017 with ‘Mystic echo from a funeral dimension’ has presented yet