You must have heard the news about French instrumental post-metal project DDENT's recent double EP release on all digital services through Chien Noir, and I'm now happy to deliver the full promo download for review in your summer columns. As "Ex Auditu (part 1)" sees songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Louis Lambert showcase a more aerial and luminous facet of his music through a blissful synth-laden post-rock daydream, "Ex Auditu (part 2)" keeps exploring the Spinoza-themed thread of wonderment and creation through nature while being bleaker, rawer and more metallic, and bridging a gap with the first EP through the stirring video for "La Nuit Transforme"
In 2019, DDENT performed at Europe's biggest metal festival Hellfest, tantalizing both the audience and critics with their bewitching performance. As a result, Louis Lambert started working on the follow-up album 'Couvre-sang'. Entirely written and recorded by multi-instrumentalist Louis Lambert, DDENT's third album 'Couvre-sang' is a massive and poetic post-metal 11-track awash with dark, elegant atmospheres and intriguing thematics, described as "an experience that swallows you in dynamic and intense layers of metal" by Everything Is Noise and most notably "pure instrumental industrial bliss, a living breathing beast, crafted superbly, with real emotional levels" by The Sleeping Shaman. In 2021, he released a cinematic single and video entitled "VOLEMOI", however, 2023 will be the year of the songwriter's comeback, with the release of the new "Ex Auditu" 2xEP on Chien Noir.
All tracks on the "Ex Auditu" 2xEP were composed, performed and recorded by Louis Lambert. Mixed by Louis Lambert & Chris Fielding, mastered by Chris Fielding. Artwork by Sophie Ejzenberg, track titles by Guillaume Ossamot.