“With only five tracks spanning 41 minutes, this is a true concept album—a cinematic immersion where every movement is given the space to breathe, collapse, and eventually, heal.”
Score A/V presents… : ‘Deuil’, the new album by French post-metal quintet Sick Sad World.
Six years after the haunting echoes of Imago Clipeata, French post-metal quintet Sick Sad World returns with their most ambitious work to date. Having bridged the silence with a raw reimagining of Nine Inch Nails’ “Hurt” and the claustrophobic intensity of their “Lockdown” studio session, the band has emerged with Deuil—a 41-minute immersive journey through the five stages of grief.
This release serves as a visceral soundtrack to a story of profound loss, charting a slow, deliberate ascent from the depths of sorrow back toward the light.
Concept:
The sonic odyssey begins with Denial, a nine-minute descent into a suffocating atmosphere of hypnotic guitars and pained, primal cries, before transitioning into the melodic clarity and rising intensity of Bargaining, which acts as a desperate plea for hope against fate.
The descent continues through the dark, leaden weight of Depression and its heartbreaking interlude, leading directly into the crushing riffs and raw agony of Anger—a moment of pure power that evokes the atmospheric titans of the genre, from Memories Of A Dead Man to Cult Of Luna. Finally, the cycle breaks with Acceptance, where relentless double-pedal percussion eventually gives way to luminous melodies, closing the album on a defiant note of hope.
Boasting a production that is massive, powerful, and pristine, Deuil captures a band at the height of their technical and emotional prowess. It is more than an album; it is a conceptual immersion that demands the listener take the time to truly feel every shadow and every spark of light.
