Assassine​(​s)

Critic Score
Based on 5 reviews
2022 Ratings: #200 / 816
User Score
Based on 120 ratings
January 28, 2022 / Release Date
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Nuclear Blast / Label
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Critic Reviews

90
Distorted Sound

CELESTE pull you in to their sonic world in a way that is just so compelling that one does not need to understand every detail upon first listen, but instead open their ears and mind and prepare to deep dive on the layered and intricate work in front of them.

80
Metal Hammer
French avant-metal experimentalists Celeste fuse sludge, post and black metal in a multifaceted expression of genius.
80
Kerrang!

Assassine(s) is heavy in a mulitiplicity of ways, but not in a way that threatens to rip a listener’s face off, rather peeling the skin from the bone slowly.

80
Blabbermouth.net

This is an ugly and uncompromising record, aimed squarely at the snarling nihilist in all of us.

JayCrackers
80

Celeste come back after 5 years with some improved production and a more melodic and dense listen with Assassine(s) and continue their good form with it. It's dark, and one of their most passionate sounding albums to date and with such good progression and some many explosive and memorable moments and showcase how blackened atmospheric sludge metal can be an powerful genre.

Track Review

Des torrents de coups 8.5/10.
De tes yeux bleus perles 9.5/10
Nonchalantes de beaute 8/10
Draguee tout ... read more

Felix_96
60

6/10

solid

Fav track: (A)

NTTR
57

Celeste - Assassine(s)

Genre: Black Metal
Country: France

Final Verdict: 57% (Pleasant Album)
Yearly Ranking: 76th / 115

Highlight: Draguée tout au fond

Made me think of:
Blut Aus Nord
Paysage d'hiver
Alcest

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