Supporting their latest album Resurrect, out via Unique Leader Records, French technical death metal quintet The Walking Dead Orchestra reveal six inspirational records that shape their pummelling, brutal sound.

Sinsaenum’s Frédéric Leclercq spoke with us recently about WWE, Japan, Dragonforce and the new Repulsion For Humanity album.

Parisian house producer Klosman has released an eclectic new single “Girl”.

French house producer Tony Romera’s new single “Hold Up” is coming to a club near you.

A short but sweet single, now you know about them but still need to hear them.

Unlikely most Bowie biographies you will find, Bowie: The Illustrated Story captures Bowie’s career through the end, including the aforementioned Blackstar album.

France’s garage blues two-piece, Blackbird Hill, are streaming the title track off their newly-announced 6-track EP, Midday Moonlight.

French progressive rock/metal group Klone released their fifth full-length album, Here Comes The Sun, on March and we recently had a nice chat with lead singer Yann Ligner.

Experimental jazz metal trio Morglbl are gearing up to release their new album Tea Time For Punks and we’re delighted offer a first listen via the song “God Shaved The Queen.”

French dark hardcore metal band Purify has inked a worldwide deal with Deadlight Entertainment (Peter Dolving, Freya) for the release of their debut album Hail Suicide scheduled to drop in the Fall of 2013. The song “We Are The Wolves” is available to stream via the YouTube player below.

Solar Flare Records (Softy Major, Pigs, American Heritage) has announced the signing of up-and-coming French group Watertank. Grab the song!

As France is not exactly known as a hotbed of doom metal, I have to admit I wasn’t expecting much from Surtr’s Pulvis Et Umbra. I don’t know why, but for some reason I just never thought that a French band could pull off doom successfully.

Fallen Joy is a French melodic death metal band formed by Victor Gallot-Lavallée and Leandro Daloi. Order To Die is the band’s first EP and was self-released in 2010. As their debut was so strong, Fallen Joy quickly signed with Spread the Metal Records and now a new album is soon to come. If Order To Die is any indication, Fallen Joy will have a long and fulfilling career at the forefront of melodic death metal; the band certainly know how to write a song.

Gojira is a band from Bayonne, France that is bringing fast-paced, jolting metal to North America. After releasing many albums on smaller labels, they recently joined Roadrunner Records to distribute their newest molten release, L’enfant Sauvage.