Sideblast

Extreme Metal hasn´t said its last words yet… That’s why France's very own SIDEBLAST since 2004 have been carving their own unique style of death, black, and thrash metal by utilizing power, rage, groove and melody in ways no one has seen or heard before.
Explaining SIDEBLAST’s sound is not an easy task. The band draws their influences from BEHEMOTH to STRAPPING YOUNG LAD but still manages to dominate over the endless plethora of imitators through the use of sound bytes in their songs and near-symphonic keyboard samples. All this coupled with the band's patented maniacally ear-shattering-yet-intelligent approach to music, SIDEBLAST are a force to be reckoned with.
With the release of their 2nd full length “Cocoon”, the band has extracted the essence of brutality and energy from their 1st acclaimed and devastating album “Flight Of A Moth” with a more structured approach to create an apocalyptic death machine, enhanced with lyrical content through a core concept about parasomnia.
After having recorded a demo in 2005 and played some gigs across France and Italy, their debut “Flight Of A Moth” was recorded and mastered at the Jailhouse Studios by Tommy Hansen (HELLOWEEN, HATESPHERE). With it SIDEBLAST got the attention of Germany-based record label Cyclone Empire, who decided to ink a deal with this metal machine and release the album worldwide in 2008. This strong and intense debut got really good reviews and quotes worldwide and amazing statements by awesome musicians as Drum-Legend Gene Hoglan (STRAPPING YOUNG LAD, DEATH, TESTAMENT…) "Your stuff sounds killer! No doubt I'll be hearing lots about ya in the future!" or even Mario Duplantier (GOJIRA) "Amazing tunes!!! Great Job!!!" Band’s fanbase grew rapidly by hitting the road and taking part in Festivals across Europe sharing stage with bands as Napalm Death, Burning Skies, Neaera, Hacride, Dagoba... In 2010 the band played at the famous Summer Breeze Open Air alongside bands as Cannibal Corpse, The Black Dahlia Murder, Sepultura, Suffocation, Children Of Bodom!
‘Cocoon’ now has been mixed and mastered at the Hertz Studio in Poland by the Wieslawski brothers (VADER, BEHEMOTH, DECAPITATED). "Working on the ‘Cocoon’ album was a great pleasure!!! We put our sound into that music and we hope that you will have the same feelings during listening as us during mixing/mastering. This album will kick your ass!!! That’s a fact!!!" - That´s what Wojtek Wieslawski had to say after having finished to work on the album.
Smash your cocoon and expose yourself to the intense sound of SIDEBLAST. No one will be safe…