Eths: Франция метал тобының тарихы

French metal band

Eths (variably stylized as eths and ETHS) was a French metal band from Marseille, formed in 1996.

Eths formed in 1996 under the name What's the Fuck, with a lineup consisting of vocalist guitarist Stéphane Bihl and guitarist Grégory Rouvière. The following year, Candice Clot, the best friend of Bihl's ex girlfriend, joined the group as a lead vocalist, and the band was renamed Melting Point. Through 1999, drummer Guillaume Dupré and bassist Marc Burghoffer were added to the lineup, and together they formed Eths. That same year they released a first demo titled Eths, containing "Encore" and "Rien à Dire". The band also appeared on a CD compilation titled Attentat Sonore. The band was part of Coriace, a small collective bringing together metal bands representing southeast France. In 2000, Eths released a seven track EP titled Autopsie. On 14 November 2001, Eths was the opening act for Machine Head at L'Usine in Istres. The band featured on two CD compilations, Boukan and A Core Et à Cri. In September 2002, the band released a second EP titled Samantha and gained acclaim in the French extreme metal circuit. In 2006, the group announced the departure of both Dupré and Burghoffer. Dupré returned to the band in 2011. Virginie Goncalves of Kells and Nelly Wood replaced Clot as temporary touring vocalists. In 2013, the group announced Rachel Aspe as their new lead vocalist. In the same month, an injury led Rouvière to depart the band. On 30 November 2016, the band notified the public of their breakup via a Facebook post and announced their last concert in Angers on 3 December 2016. The two concerts were also a posthumous homage to the band's friends, Mika Bleu and Julien Isilion.

Eths cited as influences Meshuggah, Tool, Gojira, Korn, Sepultura, Clot cited alternative rock band Hole as an early influence. Clot had no female voices as references but respected the work of My Ruin's Tairrie B. Aspe said her early influences include Slipknot and Walls Of Jericho, bands that made her discover "her vocal range while growling". groove metal, and nu metal. Metal Hammer called the band "dark tech metal". wrote that Autopsie, Samantha and Soma displayed "gothic tinged death metal" featuring blast beats that directed the band's musical aggression towards "the deathcore subgenre". Heavy metal magazine Hard Force labelled Soma as alternative metal, Tératologie and Ankaa as death metal, and III as metalcore. Bihl stated the band liked to mix styles because they tended to get weary. Clot emphasised, "We do metal, because it brings together all our influences, and we all like different things, without labels." Clot was the primary lyricist, but Bihl and Dupré also took part.