Highlights


Having played more than 500 shows around the world, including appearances at several prestigious extreme music festivals (Hellfest, Copenhell, SummerBreeze, Brutal Assault, Roadburn, Psycho Las Vegas...), with one EP and five albums under their belt, CELESTE has succeeded in creating their own musical atmosphere and are today considered to be one of the most important bands of the "French Avant-Garde Black-Metal" scene.

For 15 years, the French metal band has produced a hybrid music; rich in influences, as difficult to define as it is easy to recognise. Cleverly mixing black metal, post-metal, and hardcore sounds, CELESTE has created a music as singular as it is violent, oppressive, and dark.

After their debut EP Pessimiste(s) was released in 2006, the band’s first full-length Nihiliste(s) followed shortly after in 2007. CELESTE continued to sink into an ever more intense darkness with 2009’s Misanthrope(s), then 2010’s Morte(s) Née(s) which pushed their creative process to its extreme, closing an evolutionary thread.

In 2013, CELESTE returned with a double album titled Animale(s) containing 69 minutes of lethal music - it pushed the French metal band’s musical universe even further. It made its way onto many ‘Best Metal Albums of 2013’ lists in the international music press, with accolades from publications such as Pitchfork, Metal Hammer and Metal Sucks. Animale(s) solidified CELESTE’s position amongst the pillars of the French extreme metal scene.

In 2017, after several tours, the band began working on new material and recorded Infidèle(s), their fifth album. This new opus revealed new shades of darkness to the band's fans and allowed CELESTE to conquer an ever-growing audience.

After joining the label NUCLEAR BLAST, CELESTE will release a new album in 2022, recorded and mixed by Chris Edrich (Gojira, The Ocean, Leprous, Tesseract) and will go on an international tour to spread the darkness of its music.

Radiating News

  • CELESTE – Release Video For 'Plisse Les Yeux Jusqu’au Sang' + New EP “Epilogue(s)” Out Today!

    French extreme metal avant-gardists CELESTE have released a video for the song 'Plisse les yeux jusqu’au sang' from their new EP, Epilogue(s), which is out today.

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  • CELESTE - Release video for new single 'With Idle Hands'

    French extreme metal avant-gardists CELESTE have released a video for their new single 'With Idle Hands', another song from their upcoming new EP, Epilogue(s), due out on November 17th through Nuclear Blast Records. 

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  • CELESTE - New EP Epilogue(s) Out November 17th!

    CELESTE have released a video for their new single 'Il Se Vide Lentement', which is the first song from their upcoming new EP, Epilogue(s), due out on November 17th.

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  • CELESTE - Release New Live Video For 'Nonchalantes De Beauté'!

    French underground avant-gardists CELESTE have released a new live video for their song 'Nonchalantes De Beauté', taken from their most recent album, Assassine(s) (2022).

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Discography

Epilogue(s)

17.11.2023

Assassine(s)

28.01.2021

Infidèle(s)

 29.09.2017

Animale(s)

22.11.2013

Misanthrope(s)

01.06.2009

Nihiliste(s)

09.02.2008

Pessimiste(s)

01.01.2006

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