French doom behemoths YEAR OF NO LIGHT will soon invade the US for a 12-show tour :

YEAR OF NO LIGHT + TAKE OVER AND DESTROY west coast tour:
10/30 Los Angeles, CA - Complex
11/01 Salt Lake City, UT - Bar Deluxe
11/02 Boise, ID - Crazy Horse
11/03 Spokane, WA - TBA
11/04 Seattle, WA - Highline
11/05 Bellingham, WA - Shakedown w/Lesbian
11/06 Olympia, WA - Obsidian
11/07 Portland, OR - Rotture w/Eight Bells
11/08 Sacramento, CA - Café Colonial
11/09 Oakland, CA - Uptown

East coast shows :
11/13 New York, NY - St Vitus + Oneirogen, Geryon, Psalm Zero
11/14 New York, NY - St Vitus + Sannhet, Gnaw, Vilkacis

The latest YEAR OF NO LIGHT album, "Tocsin", is streaming in its entirety at the following location : http://014z.mjt.lu/link/014z/zri67yu/4/IlC-lKZz5gYNVIgS_6W5wQ/aHR0cDovL2RtcDY2Ni5iYW5kY2FtcC5jb20vYWxidW0vdG9jc2lu

Cvlt Nation comments : "Tocsin is a bracing body of work from these Frenchmen, one that expands on the vast ideas of Ausserwelt while plucking shades from Vampyr’s penchant for atmosphere – overall, a resounding success."

BIOGRAPHY.

Yet one more band started after too many belgian beers under the sun of the ending summer of 2001, Year of no light slightly but undoubtly started to slide down to gloomier atmospheres as the inherent chaos of Bordeaux's caves and harshness of winter made their common work. As the line-up was getting solid the band clarified their intentions and started to build the basis of what would be their first demo recorded in 2004.

More and more shows were played and the rather general critical acclaim of the demo quoting them as being "The Cure playing sludge" combined with live reviews becoming more and more encouraging compeled the band into the writing of new tracks that would finally end up on their first album "Nord", recorded at Rec studio under the direction of Serge Morratel in the fall of 2005. This material was mastered early 2006 in New York with Alan Douches and ends up here on 2*LP gatefold via Atropine & E-vinyl and also there on Cd via Radar swarm and re-issued later in the US via Crucial Blast records.

Year of no Light spent most of the last 4 years spreading its enthralling psychedelic warfare to a continually growing audience. Alongside they parted ways with their singer (R.I.P) and recruited two other thirsty mercenaries. Shiran, of über-doom combo "Monarch!", brings now his chthonian six strings to an already massive cathedral of noise and ambient drone tones. Mathieu, of deviant-electronics act "Aérôflôt", strengthens ritualistic tribal rhythm patterns.

Out of their cave, they secluded into an old theater to record these 4 tracks catching every possible vibration of the trembling frame of this enlivened a new mansion. All the energy collected at that very moment forms "Ausserwelt", the sophomore album of Year of no Light. Mystical emanations flow out of these riffs colliding into each other to an in ear-splitting shriek. Cranked amps and molested drums hurl their mourning chant as a choir intoning its final psalms at the dawn of the Last Judgment. Year of no Light follows the path opened by "Nord" towards more somber psychedelics, creating its own blend of black metal, sludge, drone or any other influence marked with the seal of darkness.

Still no caps, no core neither stupid modern nihilism but instead an ambiguous electrical network of acting singularities, now ready to afford the collective metaphysical crash to come.

(Zozzal & Year of no light - 2010)

[Members]
Pierre: guitar & funeral hermeneutics
Jérôme: guitar & electrical geometry
Shiran: guitar & heavy cosmogony
Johan: bass, keyboards & tantric computation
Bertrand: drums, keyboards & cosmic cognition
Mathieu: drums, über-modern electronics & pendular architecture