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The Shadow's Gone Out - Final Alarm - Reviewed By metal-integral ! Check it out here at this link: http://www.metal-integral.com/chronique.do?chronique_ID=8439&groupe=the-shadow-s-gone-out&album=final-alarm

Come on, open your minds and ears, people! Once is not custom, I venture into the strange lands of a duo who juggles with multiple balls… Hop! Hop! You throw high your balls of synthwave and ambient. Once in sync, you add a ball of post-rock. Increasingly complicated, you also include an alternative industrial cube in your juggling. There, it's hot potato but if you look closely you got a number that looks like THE SHADOW'S GONE OUT and, it's well known: "When the shadow is out, the zombies dance" .

I take the liberty of evoking the zombies because the overall impression I get from this little instrumental EP is somewhere between the sly fantastic, the disturbing postapocalyptic and the creepy dystopian.

This tourangelle and promising experience is the work of the composer Julien NOURTIER who officiated until now mainly as a drummer (ex- TWILIGHT MOTION , a kind of first draft of the current group), and his accomplice Anthony ENAULT , emeritus tester of beers and midwife of killer bass shots. Under the guidance of another Anthony - Anthony MARNAT , a skilled sound maker at Huitisch Mastering - the arrangements are fine-tuned and click wonderfully well.

The band's name is a nod to BAUHAUS ' album , The Sky's Gone Out. It's a little strange when you think about it, “the shadow is gone”, because listening to the EP, I have the feeling that there is still a little shadow left, isn't it? The pieces are even shrouded in a tenacious darkness. Also, I guess the appellation is a bit ironic.

Julien is surprised: “Why are only metalheads responding to my promo letters? Good
question, I think I have two or three answers: in addition to the dark atmosphere, the staggered rhythms from tribal to metal, accompanied by an often doom bulldozer bass are coated in oppressive atmospheres and go well beyond beyond the friendly borders of electro-rock. No doubt this is what appeals to metalheads.

Let's zoom in on the pieces. Pills, the first title (my favorite) plunges the listener into urgency. Images follow one another in my head from Equilibrium, Blade Runner, Matrix. This music is very metaphorical, very cinematic. Sous La Pluie invites me to a carnival ruined by a downpour, disturbing terrain on which downright weird things happen. Final Alarmis the last part of the triptych. He too generates a palpable anxiety around the siren which will only resonate two thirds of the way through. It is clear that within an electronic environment, the human soul is ultimately very present. I feel its convulsions through the drums, its torment in the bass lines, its sluggish expression through fragments of anonymous dialogue slipped into the fray. I would have perhaps appreciated tracks that were a little longer which, in this musical genre, allow for greater build-ups and more gripping hypnotic levels. Especially since here, the pieces which revolve around four minutes each are not built on a linear progression but rather function as a surge of successive emotional waves with several peaks of tension.

In summary, I find Final Alarm addictive, well produced, alive and then it opens lots of little windows in the head, it's like looking into a kaleidoscope gore and moreover it is over the counter. Enjoy! metal-integral  

Release Date: September 23, 2022

FFO: Nine Inch Nails, Russian Circles, Ez3kiel

Location: Tours (France)

The Shadow's Gone Out is an instrumental French band duo from Tours (France). They are two men in the band consisting of Nourtier Julien on drums and samples and Enault Anthony on bass guitar. It is a band where there is no lead instrument. They are influenced by underground music from England and the USA. They make music with bass, drums, electro/indus samples! Sometimes they invite lead instruments or singers. Their first Ep " Final Alarm " is available since 23th September on all streaming platforms (Spotify, Deezer etc....) through their music distributor Inouie Distribution. 

A new clip "Final Alarm" will come in by the end of October!

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Follow the band at these links:

https://www.facebook.com/theshadowsgoneout
https://www.instagram.com/tsgo_officiel/
https://bfan.link/final-alarm 
https://theshadowsgoneout.bandcamp.com/album/final-alarm