Animalize - 'Armées de la Nuit' (Verminateur 2025)

Sous des nuages d'acide en plein cœur de la ville
Où le vice est en soit, l'unique façon de survivre

Rôdant telles des ombres, des vampires
Nul n'en réchappe de cet empire
Un pied dans la tombe, tu pressens
Chacun de leur pas qui te glace le sang

Elles règnent
Elles se répandent, les armées de la nuit
Dans ta peine
Lorsqu'elles t'attendent, les armées de la nuit

Au diable l'homme et sa fierté, tu voudrais t'enfuir
Ne jamais te retrouver dans leur ligne de mire

Tu transpires la peur dans ton lit
Un jour peut-être ou une nuit
Dans ces forêts blanches de plastique
Se tiendra ta tête sur une leurs piques

Elles règnent
Elles se répandent, les armées de la nuit
Dans ta peine
Lorsqu'elles t'attendent, les armées de la nuit

Pris de panique, tu pries que jamais ton heure ne vienne
D'un regard elles te ruinent par la peur qui te draine

Tu te ronges les griffes jusqu'au sang
Affolé tu crisses jusqu'aux dents
De tes yeux s'échappe la rancoeur
Qui chaque jour te frappe jusqu'à ce que t'en meurs

Οι Animalize μας έρχονται από την Γαλλία. Heavy metal συγκρότημα (ως Heavy Metal Retro μας συστήνονται και μας προτρέπουν «Come taste the New Wave of French Heavy Metal»), το οποίο δημιουργήθηκε πριν από επτά χρόνια και έχει κυκλοφορήσει δύο EPs ("Tapes from the Crypt" 2020, "Angles Morts" 2023) και έναν "ολοκληρωμένο" δίσκο ("Meat We're Made Of" 2022), με τον δεύτερο να βρίσκεται προ των πυλών. Φέρει τον τίτλο "Verminateur" και αναμένεται στα τελειώματα του επόμενου μήνα...

Δελτίο τύπου: «Dying Victims Productions is proud to (finally!) present the unexpected second album of the Animalize frenchies, Verminateur, on CD and vinyl LP formats. At last, the second wind of youth is blowing for “French Heavy Metal” - and, to be honest, not a moment too soon.

It took just over 40 years for France to finally have its own heavy shock-rock band, Animalize: a name you may already have seen on some French and German lineup events over the last four years.

“Who do these extroverts think they are, sporting outrageous outfits with harnesses and chains? Brandishing a chainsaw and a katana in the middle of a concert, then vomiting blood all over the audience? Really?!”

Yes, really. Year 2025. Animalize are back with a new full-length, Verminateur - but this time, entirely in French, at the request of maniacs since their first record, 2020’s Tales From the Crypt EP. If their Meat We’re Made Of debut album in 2022 showed the visible part of the iceberg, then Verminateur displays the true sound of the band, pushing the boundaries!

That celebrated first full-length might’ve seen the band evince a sort of restless genius - speed metal synthesized with power-thrash and traditional metal into a dizzying-yet-addicting blend, jumping across countries and even continents with insane ease - but on Verminateur, Animalize lock into a lazer-sighted focus that sees them making good on the anthemic side of things they only hinted at before.

Mostly mid-tempo, strutting and cruising with charisma, nearly all of the album’s ten tracks (barring a one-minute synthy & cinematic “Invasion” and the dramatic piano piece “Prière de Remords”) hit that heavenly balance between buoyant hook and heavy thrust, between rock-god maximalism and back-street mischief.

It’d not be inaccurate to say some of the tracks could’ve been on MTV circa 1985... if that channel aired in France. And when Animalize wanna rip forth in speed metal mode, they do so with a streamlined power that’s a marvel to behold.

Oh, and the all-French lyrics simply make Verminateur that much more sublime, surprising, and above all unique. For he is the earth cancer eliminator. He is the Verminateur! Because the vermin is YOU. To coincide with the release of Animalize’s Verminateur, Dying Victims will be reissuing Meat We’re Made Of. Taste the New Wave of French Heavy Metal... again!»

Band: Animalize
Country of origin: France
Location: Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Formed in: 2018
Genre: Heavy Metal
Lyrical themes: Extinction of humanity
Years active: 2018-present

Video: "Armées de la Nuit"
Album: "Verminateur"
Type: Full length
Release date: May 23rd, 2025
Label: Dying Victims Productions
Format: CD, 12" vinyl, Digital

Track listing:
01. Armées de la Nuit
02. Damnée
03. Cheval Astral
04. Verminateur
05. Au Jugement de Soi
06. Invasion
07. Envahisseurs
08. Prière de remords
09. Bons Baisers d'Outre-Tombe
10. Reviens-moi

Band members:
Jessman - Guitars
Coyote - Vocals, Bass
RattleGab - Guitars
Hyungminator - drums