Relatable. I go a step further by deliberately listening to songs in foreign languages I do not understand, so I do not know the lyrics at all!
I love doing this! French metal is slept on and Arabian pop slaps.
I enjoy Landmvrks but otherwise don’t know any heavy French music. Got any reccs for currently active bands?
Oh wow I’ve listened to them and even seen them with Mastodon but I didn’t know that Gojira was French
Unsure if any are active or not, that isn't something I pay too close attention too personally unless it is local music, but here are a few recs from what I could Google about them being active (or at least not disbanding)
- Alcest
- Blut Aus Nord
- Sortilège (reformed in 2019 after a long hiatus)
- Bran Barr is good folk metal but only two albums though over 10 years, technically never disbanded.
- Amesoeurs (not active but still good)
- ADX if you like speed metal
- Attentat Rock (reformed in 08)
Igorrr is the best metal period, not just French. Very experimental but it goes hard. Imagine Frank Zappa, Aphex Twin and Dead Can Dance writing a metal album and you get Igorrr.
They're one of the few that I actually get more of because of the lyrics. I tend to just tune out lyrics unless it's rock or rap. And sometimes I wish I had tuned out the lyrics.
I recently listened to some songs I liked as a teenager, but I actually paid attention to the lyrics. Holy shit, some of those songs were dark.
Clawfinger - Little Baby.
I sent this to my wife, she heard it and said it was good. I told her to listen again, but also listen to the lyrics. Suddenly she didn't like it.
There's this advert for Freeview TV that uses the instrumentals from Enola Gay by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark. I don't know if anyone intentionally decided to have a song about the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki associated with their TV streaming company or if there's some exec out there that doesn't know what the song is about wanted for the advert and everyone else was too afraid to tell them no.
