“Their blend of symphonics with high velocity melodic death metal is thoroughly absorbing!”
POWERPLAY (UK)”Just when you think you’ve seen it all in the world of extreme metal, a band like AEPHANEMER come along and completely shatter conventions and rewrite the rulebook!” THE RAZORS EDGE (UK)”Utopie shows what Melodic Death Metal must sound like!” ROCK IT! (GER)”What makes AEPHANEMER so special is the way they manage to stay true to their underground roots with pure death metal grunt.” ROCK TRIBUNE (BE)
“A thoroughly exhilarating audio-visual experience.”
NO CLEAN SINGING (US) on single “La Règle du Jeu”
“‘Utopie’ is an album that not only bears the signature of AEPHANEMER but also redefines the expectations for modern, orchestral melodic death metal compositions. An impressive work!” METAL UNDERGROUND (AT)
“With ‘Utopie’, AEPHANEMER have created a monument. The album of the year!” WILDWOLF MAGAZINE (GER)
This Friday, on October 31, 2025, French melodic death metal trio AEPHANEMER is celebrating the release of their much-awaited, new studio offering, entitled Utopie, to be unleashed via Napalm Records.
In support of the new album, the band will embark on a European tour kicking off in early November, with special guests VALHALORE, DARK OATH and WALDGEFLÜSTER. Find all upcoming live dates listed below! But to shorten your wait for the hotly-anticipated album release and tour, AEPHANEMER have just premiered a music video for their final album single “Contrepoint”, that erupts at high speeds with anthemic, baroque influences woven together with inescapably melodic black metal arrangements.
“Contrepoint was such a joy to write and play. It’s the most polyphonic track on the album,” the band comments. “Beyond its immediate catchiness, we hope listeners will discover new layers, ornaments, secondary melodies, and details — with each listen, which is exactly what we love about the music that inspires us.”
Watch the video clip for “Contrepoint” now streaming HERE:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQy1VlqfZTo
Following the roaring success of their latest album A Dream Of Wilderness (2021), the Toulouse-based melodic death metal powerhouse strikes again with their fourth studio offering. With Utopie, AEPHANEMER recalibrates their formula, surging with heavier classical influences, blistering riffage, majestic orchestrations, and Slavic folk undertones — etching a sound equally ancient and futuristic.
Blending ferocious melodic death metal with cinematic grandeur, Utopie sees the band unleash an ambitious, razor-sharp assault of epic melodies, relentless speed, and philosophical depth, pushing their sound into bold new territory. Led by the commanding presence of Marion Bascoul, AEPHANEMER delivers a fiercely technical and emotionally immersive record — lyrically exploring the uniquely mythic urgency of modern times.
“With Utopie, we set out to create a sound that brings together the elements we’ve always loved — the intensity of melodic death metal and the depth of classical music,” AEPHANEMER recently said. “We spent a lot of time shaping melodies, drawing inspiration from polyphonic writing, and building orchestral arrangements that feel both powerful and natural to us. It was a challenging but fulfilling process, and we sincerely hope listeners will connect with what we’ve crafted.”
Lyrically, the record engages with the concept of utopia not as escape, but as confrontation — dissecting philosophical ideals with their refined sonic scalpel, and pushing for a world of harmony between living beings.
Actively bucking genre conventions, AEPHANEMER continues to reinvent their path in the melodic death metal landscape. Utopie is more than just an album — it’s a storm of sound, an ideological reckoning, and a powerful new chapter from one of Europe’s most vital and visionary metal bands!
Pre-Order Utopie HERE:
https://napalmrecords.com/aephanemer
