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Angry Metal Guy<p><strong><a href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/ataraxie-le-declin-review/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Ataraxie – Le Déclin Review</a></strong></p><p><i>By Dear Hollow</i></p><p>Once again, as reflected in the French act’s fifth full-length, <strong>Ataraxie</strong> channels an existential crisis. <em>Le Déclin</em> is not just a soundtrack of its inspiration source (<strong>Ahab</strong>, <strong>Tyranny</strong>) or a dark meditation on devastation (<strong>Evoken</strong>, <strong>Bell Witch</strong>), it’s something more profound. Throughout its miasmic movements and stark artwork, I am called back to Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman’s opus magnum, the 1957 film<em> The Seventh Seal</em>, a knight’s struggle through the days of Black Plague allegorized as a chess game between himself and Death. Likewise, <em>Le Déclin</em> continues its predecessor’s bleak and tormented commentary on the “manipulation and obfuscation of the Masses, the cult of selfishness, dehumanization towards a parasiting [<em>sic</em>] virtual life, [and] global warming insolubility.” Through the lens of modern global anxiety and medieval self-flagellation, <strong>Ataraxie</strong> revels in the human torment beneath it all.</p><p><strong>Ataraxie</strong>, while not always unique in its viscous approach to punishing death/doom, has always been far more guitar-forward, forgoing the atmospheric bells and whistles of genre stalwarts. The first full-length <em>Slow Transcending Agony</em> expertly balanced the weight and tempo of funeral doom with the riffs and punishment of death metal in a unique breed that maintained a unique simmering energy. However, it wasn’t until the very well-received <em><a href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/ataraxie-letre-et-la-nausee-review/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">L’Etre et la Nausée</a></em> and <a href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/ataraxie-resignes-review/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><em>R​é​sign​é​s</em></a> that this fusion was successfully streamlined into a more palatable expression that balances tradition with punishment. Featuring three guitarists,<a href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/ataraxie-le-declin-review/#fn-204525-1" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">1</a> more sophisticated arrangements, and penchant for melancholy and desperation alike, the minimalist emphasis remains as punishing as ever. Although <em>Le Déclin</em> somewhat lacks the memorability of <strong>Ataraxie</strong>’s magnum opera, four lengthy compositions complete with earthshaking thunder and melodies like the tolling of death knells nonetheless collide to create one of the best doom albums of the year. It is <strong>Ataraxie</strong>, after all.</p><p></p><p>While the overwhelm of traditional funeral doom acts like <strong>Thergothon</strong> or <strong>Esoteric</strong> is certainly intact, that weight is powerfully balanced out by the death metal guitar influence of <strong>diSEMBOWELMENT</strong> or <strong>Winter</strong>. Slow growths across mammoth sixteen to twenty-two-minute runtimes give way to glorious eruptions of crushing heaviness and haunting melodies, punctuated by patient lulls. While the lack of ambiance can be seen as a detriment in the barren no man’s land of funeral doom, <strong>Ataraxie</strong> does a fantastic job of weaponizing dynamics and more traditional death metal motifs, such as blazing tremolo and blast beats (“Vomisseurs De Vide,” “Glory of Ignominy”), chunky climactic riffs, and pulsing undercurrents of energetic percussion (“Glory of Ignominy,” “The Collapse”). While adding to the muscularity of the already colossal album, bassist/vocalist Jonathan Théry’s charismatic and haunting shrieks, shouts, and roars add to the madness, keenly aligned with desperation and fury. <em>Le Déclin</em> is mixed nearly perfectly, <strong>Ataraxie</strong>’s weight and gloom felt through every movement, crushing down like the empty sky.</p><p>Most impressive about <strong>Ataraxie</strong> is its ability to balance sloth, melancholy, and aggression organically, without losing its conviction to starkness—and only with the bare bones of its triple-guitar attack. Because of this, the heavy-handed melo-drama of acts like <strong>Saturnus</strong> or <strong>Novembers Doom</strong> is absent in favor of desolation, reflected in elements like effective spoken word (“Vomisseurs de Vide”) and the dynamic motifs scattered throughout. The weaponized layered plucking or strumming may sound too hammy or heartfelt on paper, but when it sounds like tolling bells (“<em>Le Déclin</em>”) or progressions completely devoid of hope (“Vomisseurs de Vide,” “Glory of Ignominy”), the weight of every empty note feels just as devastating as the colossal funeral doom sprawls. Closer “The Collapse” streamlines the heft and barrenness seamlessly, its first act a steady crescendo that explodes into an outright death metal assault, its second act a blastbeat-infected climax into outright despair—<strong>Ataraxie</strong>’s nearly perfect dichotomy of beautiful and punishing.</p><p>The opening title track feels slightly less memorable than its successive three cuts, due to its more straightforward rhythm, but this criticism is trivial compared to the absolute sonic and existential devastation coursing through <strong>Ataraxie</strong>’s signature sound. Attention never sways across its hour-and-fifteen-minute length, with expertly composed lulls and crescendos guiding its movements. Cutting to the bone of funeral doom with the jagged blade of death metal, it dispenses with the frivolities and atmospherics for an album that is bleak and tormented to its very core – a chess game with Death in all its desperate victories and devastating losses. It’s the soundtrack of the crushed human spirit.</p> <p><strong>Rating:</strong> 4.0/5.0<br><strong>DR:</strong> 7 | <strong>Format Reviewed:</strong> 320 kb/s mp3<br><strong>Label: </strong><a href="https://www.arduamusic.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Ardua Music</a> | <a href="https://weirdtruth.jp/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Weird Truth Productions</a><br><strong>Websites:</strong> <a href="http://ataraxie.bandcamp.com" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">ataraxie.bandcamp.com</a> | <a href="http://facebook.com/ataraxiedoom" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">facebook.com/ataraxiedoom</a><br><strong>Releases Worldwide:</strong> October 25th, 2024</p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/2024/" target="_blank">#2024</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/40/" target="_blank">#40</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/ahab/" target="_blank">#Ahab</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/ardua-music/" target="_blank">#ArduaMusic</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/ataraxie/" target="_blank">#Ataraxie</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/bell-witch/" target="_blank">#BellWitch</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/death-metal/" target="_blank">#DeathMetal</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/death-doom-metal/" target="_blank">#DeathDoomMetal</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/disembowelment/" target="_blank">#diSEMBOWELMENT</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/doom-metal/" target="_blank">#DoomMetal</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/esoteric/" target="_blank">#Esoteric</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/evoken/" target="_blank">#Evoken</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/french-metal/" target="_blank">#FrenchMetal</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/funeral-doom-metal/" target="_blank">#FuneralDoomMetal</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/le-declin/" target="_blank">#LeDéclin</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/oct24/" target="_blank">#Oct24</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/review/" target="_blank">#Review</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/reviews/" target="_blank">#Reviews</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/thergothon/" target="_blank">#Thergothon</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/tyranny/" target="_blank">#Tyranny</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/weird-truth-productions/" target="_blank">#WeirdTruthProductions</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/winter/" target="_blank">#Winter</a></p>