Malemort/Cerbère | Aimless/Glace Mère | Rope Or Guillotine/La Harelle/Arsenic Solaris/Chien Noir

Release Date: December 5^th, 2025

Format: LP/Digital

Genre: Doom Metal

Country: France

Malemort rose in 2015 from the ashes of Fatum Elisum, forming the slowest and most suffocating branch of the Rouen collective La Harelle. Their path runs through chaos, bleak dissonance and a harsh vocal approach shared by all three members. After their first album reached listeners across the US and Asia, the group spent years performing with heavy hitters of the underground before returning to the studio. Parisian trio Cerbère comes from a similar place, although their strength comes from raw sludge punishment with a punk charge. Since 2021 they have shaped their own corner of brutality, moving from an EP to the album “Cendre”, and hammering stages across France and England. The split “Aimless/Glace Mère” brings these two forces together on a shared slab of cold devastation.

“Aimless” immediately drags the listener into a landscape where everything is stripped to stone and metal. Malemort moves with patience, turning repetition into something crushing. The guitar hangs like a grey sky, the bass grinds underneath and the vocals come across like broken declarations from the edge of collapse. The whole track grows in slow tremors, circling around its dissonant roots. It never warms up, it never shifts toward comfort, it carries on like a freezing wind that refuses to weaken. This is Malemort in their purest form, stark and unwavering.

Cerbère answers with “Glace Mère”, a long descent through frostbitten terrain. Their sludge approach gives the track a rougher texture, more dirt in the seams and more bite in the riffs. The psychedelic touches twist the sound without turning it soft, keeping everything hostile and unwelcoming. The band recorded it live, and that rawness works well here. It pushes the track forward with steady force, as if the whole trio is locked into a trance of cold violence.

Both sides complement each other in a natural way. Malemort brings the void, Cerbère brings the grime and together they carve out a bleak panorama that stands on strong foundations. The split does not aim for comfort or variety, it stays loyal to the underground spirit that shaped both bands. What you get is a heavy, crushing listen that holds its ground, cold as iron and ruthless as a falling hammer.

Score: 7.0

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