YMMV / ETHS

• Alternative Character Interpretation: Is Entends-tu about a stalker-rapist, or is it about a consensual rape fantasy intercourse? The whole song is written from the stalker's perspective, but the vocals' singer altern between a man and Candice Clot. Sometimes they altern in the middle of a line. Also, a line entirely sung by Candice supports both interpretations, expressing either the stalker's fantasy about his victim's consent or the fact it's consensual roleplay:
  Autant d'invitations à un viol partagé^Translation So many invitations to a shared rape
• Broken Base: The fans are divided due to the departure of Candice Clot in 2012. Half of them believe Candice was the superior vocalist, while the other half praise Rachel Aspe for filling the role.
• Crosses the Line Twice: Eths' own acoustic cover of "Ondine." The original is fairly standard metal stuff. The cover's Lyrical Dissonance^note The lyrics are about perversions. Musically, this cover merely consists in gentle vocals accompanied with a quiet tune played on an acoustic guitar is so extreme it becomes hilarious.
• Genius Bonus: Ankaa. Several of the songs have rather esoteric titles, and the lyrics are merely evocative of the themes instead of being explicit, making the songs sounding just like original poetry instead of being references to pre-existing mythological subjects. The fact none of those titles appear in the actual songs doesn't help. For instance:
  • "Amaterasu" is a sun goddess from Japanese Mythology. The song is about her myth and ends when she's hiding in a cave to hide from her brother Susanoo (who's referred but not mentioned by name in the song.)
  • "Nixi Dii" is about stillbirth. The song mentions Lucina several times without much explaination; Lucina is an alternate name of Roman goddess Juno (especially as protector of birth.) The title is a mispelling of the Di nixi, Roman deities of birth.
  • "Kumari Kandam" has very esoteric lyrics, which could refer to characters being survivors or exiles from a lost world. In Tamil mythology, Kumari Kandam is a submerged continent supposed to lie in the ocean south of India.
• Nausea Fuel: Mother of God...
  • "Méléna" title is a medical term (in English: "melena" or "melaena") referring to "the dark black, tarry feces that are associated with upper gastrointestinal bleeding." Let's just say Non-Indicative Name is averted.
  • "NaOCl" is about a woman who drinks bleach to clean herself.
  • "Ondine" mentions several paraphilia in a single song (urophilia^note "Ondine" is the root for "ondinisme" (in English: "undinism"), a fancy synonym for this perversion, scatophilia, zoophilia, emetophilia...) The first line translates as "Ondine likes to drink at their genital river," and the rest of the song continues in the same vein.
  • "Bulimiarexia" is about eating disorders and describes self-inflicted vomiting. The song also features sound-effects evocative of messy eating. The song ends with the sound of a woman vomiting.
  • "Rutsah" has a part where a man describes how it feels to be burned alive.
  • "Hydracombustio" describes severe burns in vivid details, again. The victim is a child (who survived.)
  • "Samantha" is about the death of a baby girl from physical abuse. The description of the corpse also hints at sexual abuse.
  • "Nihil Sine Causa" first verse:
    Your pain is sharped by your own muddled mind,
    Try to trap the Devil inside.
    Then thousand dead black kidneys leave my hands,
    it's raining flesh.
  • Tératologie cover art is a skinned rabbit.
  • One of the artworks in the booklet Tératologie represents a splat of an unspecified brown matter (blood? gore? feces?) on the floor with white worm/snake things crawling away from it. Next to the splat lies a leg entirely dressed in white stokings; the foot is stained with the same matter.
• Nightmare Fuel: Holy shit where to begin. Most music videos and songs are essentially this.