heavy-metal-darkness: Noirsuaire | The Dragging Poison

Saturday, November 29, 2025

Noirsuaire | The Dragging Poison | Osmose Productions

Release Date: 26 December 2025

Format: CD/Vinyl

Genre: Black Metal

Country: France

Noirsuaire is the solitary creation of musician N, a project born in an attic on the French side of the Pyrenees. After early demos and smaller releases that hinted at a vision rooted in the darker corners of the '90s underground, “The Dragging Poison” arrives as the first full-length. The project draws its bloodline from the raw French lineage connected to names like Bekhira and Seigneur Voland, while also leaning toward the ghostly aggression once found in Nastrond or the early rampage of Marduk. With the album mixed and mastered by Sébastien Tuvi at BST Studios, the sound is shaped with intention, keeping the harshness intact while giving every layer enough presence to strike with clarity.

“The Dragging Poison” moves with a steady, oppressive temperament. Noirsuaire keeps the guitar work firmly rooted in a frozen, serrated tradition, always pushing forward, always maintaining that cold Pyrenean temperament. Vocals carve through the noise with a rasp that sticks close to the genre’s older foundations, and the production amplifies this approach without softening the edges. The pacing remains consistent, keeping the atmosphere in line with the themes of vampirism, folklore and occult devotion that circle the album’s narrative. David Thiérrée’s artwork strengthens this dark framework, matching the project’s fixation on an older European shadow world.

Noirsuaire’s songwriting avoids theatrics and instead stays locked on a narrow, hostile path. Tracks like “The Trance Of Bedless Bones” and “Fogged By The Leaves Of Pestilence” bring an abrasive harshness that suits the project’s minimalistic brutality. When the title track “The Dragging Poison” appears, the project leans deeper into a grim, trance-like march, gripping in its repetition and weight. Later moments such as “Sworn By Sinister Wisdom” build a more relentless haze, while the self-titled closer “Noirsuaire” wraps the album in a storm of scraping riffs and poisonous atmosphere.

As a whole, “The Dragging Poison” stands as a stark tribute to a specific spirit of black metal, one shaped by solitude and devotion to the rawest corners of the genre’s lineage. Noirsuaire doesn’t shift from that vision, choosing instead to carve it with discipline and a bleak sense of tradition. The album is unwavering, frozen in its chosen aesthetics and strengthened by the focused production behind it.

Score: 7.0