heavy-metal-darkness: Vide |Aux Enfantes Des Ruines |Antiq Records

Sunday, March 15, 2026

Vide |Aux Enfantes Des Ruines |Antiq Records

Release Date February 27^th, 2026
Format CD/Digital
Genre Atmospheric Black Metal
Country France

France has spawned Vide, a black metal entity that dropped three full albums back in 2022 before disappearing into the frozen dirt. Now they are back under the Antiq Records banner, an imprint active since 2009 churning out obscure art. Vide is fronted by Hylgaryss, known for his vocal destruction in acts like Dark Sanctuary and Le Prochain Hiver. They have crawled out of the underground again to deliver a fifty-minute assault of pure winter worship.

"Aux Enfants Des Ruines" brings a freezing audio storm straight to your skull. Guitars layer endlessly over each other, creating a massive, chaotic wall of noise. You get blasted with relentless drumming that eventually slows down into cold, echoing passages. Hylgaryss screams his lungs out, channeling absolute misery over the swirling riffs. The violence breaks occasionally for strange choral chanting, throwing a creepy, haunted orphanage aesthetic over the bleakness.

The children's choir segments are genuinely eerie and bring serious sorrow to the music. They add a sick, twisted layer to the standard atmospheric blasting. Over fifty minutes of overlapping tremolo picking and relentless frostbite can wear you down. Sometimes the music wanders off into the snow and gets lost in its own freezing noise. The high-pitched riffing drags on a bit too long in the middle sections, making you wait forever for the next blast beat to strike.

Vide definitely brings the freezing darkness French extreme music is famous for producing. The harsh vocals and creepy choir parts give "Aux Enfants Des Ruines" a cool identity. It delivers enough freezing riffs to keep underground maniacs banging their heads, even if the runtime drags its feet occasionally. A decent dose of winter misery.

Score: 7.0