Hypno5e have released a video for Trame Noire, the title track of the album Pelagic Records put out on 6 November.
Emmanuel Jessua directed it, which is the part that matters: he writes the music, sings it and makes the films, and the band has worked that way since it started. What the French call cinematic metal is in their case literal, with the records built around spoken passages, field recordings and long instrumental stretches rather than around riffs.
The album is their seventh and it runs on memory, loss, dreams and whatever is left behind afterwards, which is roughly the same ground they have worked since Des deux l'une est l'autre. The video arrives a week after the record rather than before it, which is the opposite of how a single usually works and fits a band that has never been in a hurry.
Pelagic is a sensible home for them, a label built on exactly the kind of long form heaviness that does not fit a radio edit.