Artist: Crévüre
Country: France
Label: Self-Released
Formats: Demo Tape
Year: 2026
With ‘Le Dernier Messie’, the French one-man band Crévüre has already released its third demo tape within the relatively short span of four months. Whilst Crévüre’s Raw Black Metal may not be of the highest caliber in terms of musical ingenuity and complexity, the output is nonetheless impressive. Especially when you consider that he runs two other such projects as well – Vouge and Chateau Sanglant, to be precise. High-caliber or not, all the self-released demo tapes to date have been of sufficient quality and possessed that vital underground charm; this latest release is no exception.
Admittedly, the first time I put on ‘Le Dernier Messie’, after a few minutes I thought I was dealing with some sort of non-musical outburst that would be more at home amongst fans of noise/ambient and field recordings. But although the intro does lean in that direction, it turns out that the material that follows is indeed Black Metal. However, Sanglant, the man behind this project, has taken it into even deeper lo-fi waters. At a slightly higher volume, it becomes clear that the noise is simply a jumble of instrumentation.
That does, however, mean that the listener is expected to make a little more of an effort to get to the heart of the music on this third Crévüre demo. The lack of dynamics and the resulting monotony mean that multiple listens are required, but with a relatively short running time of just over a quarter of an hour, that shouldn’t be a problem. If you’re willing to make that investment, you’ll hear that, just as with the previous two demo tapes, there’s a strong understanding of the genre’s musical aesthetic. In a sense, this harks back to the somewhat deeper regions of Les Légions Noires, with an atmosphere that perhaps most closely resembles Abruptum’s earliest works.
Regardless, this third piece is definitely not offering an easy-listening sort of Black Metal. That wasn’t the case on the previous two demos, but Sanglant has taken things up a notch when it comes to a profound inaccessibility. But, if you enjoyed the bands during the resurgence of Raw-/Lo-Fi Black Metal from the second half of the 10s with such acts as Lampir, Orgy Of Carrion, Unholy Vampyric Slaighter Sect, Black Citadel, Wóddréa Mylenstede, Hand Of Glory, Funeral Altar, Sanguine Relic, Black Cilice and Obskuritatem, this might be just up your alley.
