Mtal noir Qubcois

Beholder is a Qubcois black metal band born in 2016. The quintet released an EP in 2019, Ancien Monde, and their debut album, Arcane Subreptice, was featured as one of the best metal releases on Bandcamp in 2022. Two years later, Beholder inks a deal with Avantgarde Music to release their sophomore record, Dualisme, an opus the band themselves describe as a huge improvement on their already solid foundations.

Dualisme is a 35-minute assault of aggressive, up-tempo black metal with melodic, doomy passages which deeply contribute to its overall atmosphere. Beholder singer, Mcrant (Saccage, Sulfure), screams his lungs out in French, keeping the true spirit from Qubec aflame. The album production is intended to be powerful and massive, yet preserving an organic and raw feel to it.

As the band declares, ‘both music and lyrics are influenced by orthodox black metal from the 90’s, with topics mainly dealing with lu