Alcest is the French music project led by Neige, active since 1999, known for blending black metal with shoegaze and post‑rock to shape what critics call blackgaze.

Reviews on DeBaser and other sources document that Alcest began in the late 1990s/2000s, evolved from raw black metal toward shoegaze-influenced sounds, and that Neige is a multi-instrumentalist involved with projects such as Peste Noire and Amesoeurs. Key albums noted in the reviews include Souvenirs d'un autre monde, Écailles de lune, Les Voyages De L'âme, Shelter and Kodama.

DeBaser's reviews portray Alcest as the pioneering blackgaze project led by Neige, blending black metal, shoegaze and post‑rock. Early releases like Souvenirs d'un autre monde are widely praised; later albums receive mixed reactions for stylistic shifts. Overall the coverage is admiring of the project's atmospheres while divided on some later directions.

For:Listeners who like shoegaze, post-rock and experimental black metal (blackgaze), and fans of melancholic, atmospheric music.

 The music offered by the French artist is a sound poetry in which the rhythmic guitars, like the drums, are a noisily melodic background, confusingly diffused, a gray amalgam of sounds from which a melancholically crystalline voice emerges, delicate, which often seems nothing more than a clear whisper.

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 And all that's left of the magic is a memory; the memory of another world...

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 Shelter is something you don't expect, that surprises you but eventually manages to get inside you and move you.

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