(written by Islander)
The Montreal-based black metal duo Anges de la Mort (French for “Angels of Death”) debuted in 2019 with a self-titled EP and then followed that with a second EP in 2020 (Where Spirits No More Shine), an album in 2024 (Notre tombeau grand ouvert), and a split with Ifernach last year.
Now they’re working toward the release of a second album next year, and today we have the first sign of what it holds in store, through our premiere of a ferocious new song called “Le Feu sous la Glace“.
ADLM introduce the song with these words:
This new track, “Le Feu sous la Glace,” translates as “The Fire Under the Ice” — a visceral hymn to the long, suffocating Canadian winters that bury desire beneath months of frost. Beneath the surface, the flame swells, mutates, and erupts into a diabolical thirst for flesh.
With this release, ADLM sharpens its mission: reignite the old-school magic and danger-soaked spirit of black metal. No sterile perfection, but no garbage sound either. Just raw power, jagged edges, Marshall amps and Gibson guitars, and the punk/rock’n’roll backbone that once made the genre feel alive — and that modern black metal (and metal in general) generations too often forget.
Anges de la Mort stands as a sonic resistance against an era smothered by algorithmic processing and AI-scrubbed sterility. This new single is a torch held high for the old spirits — a declaration to make black metal rock’n’roll again.
“Le Feu sous la Glace” follows through on what the band have promised, and what the song’s title promises too. It’s a constantly changing but relentlessly thrilling song of fire and ice, and it rocks as hard as it rips. It’s also packed with hooks that will spike listeners’ heads and keep them coming back for re-plays.
Fires blaze in the song’s wild opening, thanks to broiling riffage that furiously writhes and blisters the senses, coupled with furiously hurtling drums and magma-strength bass upheavals. The music then shifts into punk-rock beats and fretwork that sounds feral and viciously ecstatic, joined by double-bass thunder, scalding screams, brutish bass-slugging, and brazenly blaring chords.
The dual-guitar work throughout the song is constantly attention-grabbing, most especially when the song hits the two-minute mark and the paired guitars create a rippling melodic harmony that flows across steady beats and seems simultaneously despairing and glorious, beleaguered and defiant (or maybe how you interpret it will depend on your own mood).
That melody descends into deeper darkness and the hostility of freezing drifts, but ADLM gradually ramp up the intensity again, and reprise the song’s hook-filled riffs and head-moving rhythms again, once more fronted by white-hot vocals of unhinged intensity.
P.S. You may know that one of our year-end LISTMANIA features is a list of the year’s most infectious extreme metal songs. This one will be on it.
ANGES DE LA MORT is:
Borvos El Maniac : guitars, bass, vocals
Ishkar Al Dahn : drums
Further Credits: Music & lyrics by ADLM; recorded by Spectral Wound’s Patrick McDowall in Montreal, 2025; cover photo by Thomas M Photography. The album will be mastered by Joel Grind (Toxic Holocaust).
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