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After the underground success of their previous “Eloge de L’Ombre,” named by Metal Hammer Spain as the best metal album of 2021, French band CREATVRE are back with a new and exciting work, “Toujours Humain.” As sole member Raphaël Fournier says, “the album bears witness to a world where humanity is one of its own relics, a vestige drowned in silicon. It’s a cyber-industrial journey, navigating between collective collapse and the pulse of resilience, each song a visual capsule drawn from this bleak tableau.”
CREATVRE’s lyrics, music, and sound design meld into a work that blends code and poetry, born from a machine-brain in an oxygen-less, data-saturated world. It echoes the cries of those no longer heard, fragments of tweets turned into prayers.
“It’s an allegory of self-erasure for individuals, as programmed by those who set the agenda,” Fournier explains. “The shame of still being biological. A lucid awareness with no escape, submerged in a world that operates without us. It’s the exploitation of hope. The commodification of salvation. A false light sold to those who were plunged into darkness. The album is a dystopian soundtrack where violence is cold, almost surgical, and where the only possible utopia is an inner and collective revolt.”
FFO: Arcturus, Solefald, Ihsahn, The Devin Townsend Project
