Following an extensive festival season last year and having just wrapped a South American tour, the French post-black metal two-piece Alcest have taken some time to reflect on their rich past as one of the world’s most visionary metal acts. Today, the band are proud to announce their ‘Écailles De Lune – 10th Anniversary Tour’, which had previously been postponed several times. Alcest’s second studio album was released in March 2010 to widespread acclaim, and the tour will honour this milestone in their impressive discography. 2023 will finally see the band on tour celebrating Ecailles De Lune alongside their special guests The Devil’s Trade.Together with the announcement, Alcest have shared a video portrait, lifting the veil to give fans a deeper insight into the band’s thoughts and motivations. You can find the video here:

 

Neige states:

“After the success of our Bataclan show in Paris for the anniversary of Ecailles de Lune we decided to make it a proper tour all over Europe. We can’t wait to play this album for you in its entirety plus selected tracks from all our other albums!

We are really excited to announce this anniversary Ecailles de Lune tour in Europe along with The Devil’s Trade. We can’t wait to play for you the songs of this album, which is very special to us, as well as others from the rest of our discography.”

 

Tickets are now on sale now from https://linktr.ee/alcest_tour

 

ALCEST – Écailles De Lune – 10th Anniversary Tour

29.09. FR Metz, La Bam

30.09. BE Bruges, Cactus Club

01.10. DE Hamburg, Knust

03.10. DK Copenhagen, Lille Vega

04.10. NO Oslo, Parkteatret

05.10. SE Stockholm, Fryhuset Klubben

07.10. DE Dresden, Reithalle

08.10. PL Poznan, 2Progi

09.10. PL Wroclaw, Stary Klasztor

10.10. DE Hannover, Musikzentrum

11.10. DE Frankfurt, Zoom

13.10. NL Nijmegen, Soulcrusher

14.10. FR Lille, L’Aeronef

15.10. UK Manchester, Academy 2

16.10. UK Bristol, SWX

17.10. UK Brighton, Concorde 2

19.10. FR Vaureal, Le Forum

20.10. FR St Nazaire, Le VIP

21.10. FR Rouen, Le 106

22.10. FR Savigny-Le-Temple, L’Empreinte

 

For principal songwriter and frontman Neige, Alcest has always been a gateway to the otherworldly, a means of exploring his spirituality. An elemental two-piece, completed by long-serving drummer and creative confidante Winterhalter, Alcest seem to dip their toes in a multitude of musical genres without ever quite fitting in. “In the metal scene Alcest is a weird band, in the indie/post-rock scene Alcest is a weird band- we never quite fit in,” Neige reflects. “This is how I feel in life, always an outsider; It’s not a problem, it’s just the way it is.”

The band released their last album Spiritual Instinct in October 2019, a soul-gripping masterpiece whose successor is already in the making.

 

ALCEST is:

Neige | vocals, guitars, bass, synths

Winterhalter | drums