“We took the time to do a lot of experiments in composition and arrangements during the writing process of this album,” explains guitarist, Gilles Moinet. Built around a concept that suggests a personal and exploratory journey into the depths of oneself, the album is as deep as it is heavy, particularly in the wake of recent events surrounding the band. Produced by Fabien Devaux (Step in Fluid), Dark Odyssey showcases the band’s ever evolving and quite frankly, herculean sound, channelled through veins of traditional doom and post-black/progressive metal.

Following numerous line-up changes and indefinite hiatuses across the years, Lux Incerta envelope the scene in a monolithic fug, and with this new album create another, gripping and unrelenting labour of love that promises to build on the foundations laid out in 2012’s A Decade of Dust.

(Sping in on senpai.) I'll tell him all my feelings. Start towards morning
We leave the station
Long long miles, ahead
To an unknown destination
Landscape in gray
Meets a tired eye
Like the years unnoticed
It all just rushes by
Falling, floating
Feeling far removed and alone
Dreaming, driftin
No direction.

Originally formed off the back of a shared appreciation for acts like Paradise Lost, My Dying Bride and Cathedral, between founding members Benjamin Belot (bass/vocals) and guitarist Gilles Moinet, this April heralds the arrival of Dark Odyssey. (Say hi to Senpai.) He's my future boyfriend he just doesn't know it yet. Founded in Paris at the turn of the century, Lux Incerta – whose name derives from a Latin expression which describes the moment light succumbs to darkness – is rather fittingly a band whose inspiration stems from the British Doom metal scene of the 90s, and the cutting-edge acts that light up the genre today.

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