<p>Its title, <em>The Triumph of Metal,</em> is both a reference to the great names of Heavy Metal and to the alchemy book <em>The Triumphal Chariot of Antimony</em> by Basile Valentin. Orchestral grandeur meets progressive elements, combining powerful, heavy riffs with a modern twist. The intense voice of Noémie Marie delivers poetic lyrics about the balance between order and chaos, metamorphosis, the will of nature, and the inner realm, seeking a rooted and inhabited strength.</p> <p>The album reaches its pinnacle in the eleven-minute finale, telling the story of the legendary samurai warrior Tomoe Gozen through Japanese landscapes and symbolism.</p> Fountain Wed, 21 Jan 2026 17:46:25 GMT en Hartlight 19ea68de-0073-56b0-af67-686ef74a2900 music 380 19cf7ba5-19e8-435a-8306-60861e5c2fa2 Thu, 08 Jan 2026 19:03:23 GMT <p>It speaks of the dread of confronting one’s own fears – that decisive instant when one finally acts and the darkness recedes. It also recalls the apprehension preceding the alchemical work, that passage which engenders the metamorphoses necessary for its fulfillment.</p> 4 4 true 342 c3b4f030-2bd2-4452-9599-aba8f304c8e0 Thu, 08 Jan 2026 19:03:23 GMT <p>An eternal struggle between chaos and order, creation and repetition – until the moon is reached and finally touched. It evokes our feminine and masculine polarities, that hidden source of power we must unite. The Rebis echoes this: the alchemical union that opens the way to the Philosopher’s Stone.</p> 3 3 371 76ebaa6d-c712-46b3-aa22-3e4684b5703f Thu, 08 Jan 2026 19:03:23 GMT <p>A journey both earthly and cosmic, a musical bridge between matter and the volatile. It explores the waves that course through us, the strength of cerebral connections, able to renew and reinvent themselves – a reminder that no fatality exists, and that music remains the engine of intimate and profound transformation.</p> 6 6 693 1d435713-1116-4526-8191-a3c4711d08de Thu, 08 Jan 2026 19:03:23 GMT <p>It is a voyage to Japan, land of refinement and turmoil. We walk beside Tomoe Gozen, foremother of the samurai, in her final battle where history blends with imagination. A woman captive of her time, torn between duty and survival – what dreams might she have let bloom, had war not consumed her?</p> 8 8 true 370 422c33fe-c835-444d-873d-0b27109a8998 Thu, 08 Jan 2026 19:03:23 GMT <p>It speaks of imagination – that power to transfigure the world, to don its attributes and to metamorphose. It also evokes the mental and emotional liberations that spring forth in the alchemical process, as well as the reciprocity between the matter being shaped and the alchemist who is himself transformed by it.</p> 2 2 508 2df55812-a9c2-4438-92b8-458fdc788ace Thu, 08 Jan 2026 19:03:23 GMT <p>An immersion into the ruins of a city perched upon a cliff, sheltered by dark woods and beating rains. It resounds like the inner temple, drowned in tears yet capable of becoming a refuge built upon vulnerability. It teaches us that each one can carve their own foundations into stone, let their happy memories flow like rivers, and thus purify the darkest waters of their psyche.</p> 5 5 380 67f9e2b2-9032-4924-ac4a-d7548e50fd2a Thu, 08 Jan 2026 19:03:23 GMT <p>An epic of courage and hope rising from the deepest darkness.Nourished by the roots of alchemy, it retraces the quest for self-overcoming and transmutation, the lightening of the soul – freeing oneself from inner chains to embrace existence with ardent and joyful passion.</p> 1 1 260 f71db065-62b7-4602-85c5-f0a248e5babf Thu, 08 Jan 2026 19:03:23 GMT <p>It reveals the respect we bear towards species and their ways of being – an inexhaustible well of wisdom, a refuge for regeneration, offered by these beings when the surrounding world seems nothing but bitterness and disgust.</p> 7 7