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1[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/46747_photo18.jpg]]
2[[caption-width-right:350: From left to right: Audrey S., Winterhalter, Neige, and Fursy T.]]
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4-> "''Swallowed by the hive''"
5--> The band's original slogan.
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7Amesoeurs was a pioneering BlackMetal / {{Shoegazing}} / PostPunk band from Bagnols-sur-Cèze, France, a ''second'' forerunner for Blackgaze, a genre associated with bands like Music/{{Alcest}}. While Music/{{Alcest}} can be considered the TropeCodifier of the genre, Amesoeurs was the second-wing of the genre's post-punk elements.
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9The band was formed by Neige (of Music/{{Alcest}} fame), Audrey Sylvain, and talented animator and artist Fursy Teyssier to show the CrapsackWorld of urban society, mixing in the feeling of bleakness and depression, hitting TrueArtIsAngsty levels, but in a good way.
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11Despite releasing an EP, a split with Valfunde (dead side project of Peste Noire) and having Jean "Winterhalter" Deflandre join as their drummer, the band sadly only lasted five years before abruptively ending due to arguments between the band (mainly Audrey and Neige) over the band's future, but got together one last time to record their Self Titled album as their GrandFinale.
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13Despite their small tenure, the band surprisingly enough had a huge impact within the [[GenreRoulette post-black metal]] scene, causing some musicians to [[FollowTheLeader follow their style]] which surprisingly [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools enough lead to decent sounding bands]], and even helped launch Neige's career with Music/{{Alcest}} even more than before, alongside with Fursy starting Les Discrets, Winterhalter joining Music/{{Alcest}} and Les Discrets (although he ended up leaving the latter in 2013 by mutual agreement with Fursy to focus on Alcest), and Audrey went forward to join Peste Noire (for a while, anyway).
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15Amesoeurs is dead and another journey began.
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17Swallowed by the hive indeed.
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19!!!The Artists
20* [[{{Music/Alcest}} Neige]] - Bass, Guitars, Keyboards, Vocals
21* Audrey Sylvain - Bass, Piano, Vocals
22* Fursey Teysseir - Bass, guitar
23* Jean "Winterhalter" Deflandre - Drums
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25!!!The Art
26* 2005 - ''Ruines humains [EP]'' [[note]]"Human remains"[[/note]]
27* 2007 - ''Valfunde/Amesoeurs Split''
28* 2009 - ''[[SelfTitledAlbum Amesoeurs]]''
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30!!Tropes in veins...
31* AlbumTitleDrop/[[TitleDrop Band Name Drop]]: "Amesoeurs", which is the 10th track off of their SelfTitledAlbum by ''[[MindScrew Amesoeurs]]''. Fuck.
32* AuthorAppeal: Neige's love of poetry by Charles Baudelaire shows up here too with "Recuelliement", which contains the actual poem of the same name written by him.
33* BadassCreed: Somewhat with what was once posted on their Website/MySpace however lost due to Website/MySpace's revamping. [[http://seanoin.tumblr.com/post/744903338/amesoeurs-self-titled-this-band-and-alcest Fortunately...]]
34* BilingualBonus: ''Everything'' is in French.
35** "Video Girl" plays with this; the song is still in French. "Trouble (Éveils infâmes)" is still a French title, despite the obvious English word. [[note]]'Trouble' in French can also mean 'Disrupt' or 'Disorder'.[[/note]]
36* BlackMetal: Played with this trope, considering the fact that Neige was working on Alcest and he and Winterhalter were part of Peste Noire.
37* BreatherEpisode: The track "I XIII V XIX XV V XXI XVIII XIX - IX XIX - IV V I IV" is a pure slow instrumental piano piece. A few other tracks, such as "Video Girl" and "Amesoeurs", may also qualify.
38** ''Ruines humaines'' has "Faiblesse des Sens", though it's an unusual case of this trope in that it's the ending.
39** Inverted with "Trouble (Éveils-infâmes)", which is sandwiched between two of the quietest songs on the album.
40* CarefulWithThatAxe: Audrey can deliver some harsh shrieks out of nowhere during some songs. Neige has his moments during each release, too.
41* CrapsackWorld: Amesoeurs paint society as this, being a world of bleakness, loneliness, and full of disease and overall depression. This also fits Neige's mentality with city vs nature, as he has stated to feel alone and isolated within an urban environment compared to a nature environment.
42* DeliberatelyMonochrome: All their photos were taken in black and white.
43* DespairEventHorizon: Some of the songs invoke this at least from song translations such as the title track, "Au crépuscule de nos rêves", and "Faux Semblants".
44* EpicRocking: The longest song off the album is "Recueillement, ticking 7 minutes long. "Ruines humaines" is six and a half minutes long, and "Heurt" just barely scrapes by the six-minute mark.
45** "Au crépuscule de nos rêves" plays with this. The length says eleven minutes and sixteen seconds, but the song ends at around 5:35 and there's silence until the final 2:22, where we're hit with a [[HiddenTrack strange eletronic outro]] that makes up the rest of the track.
46* FakeOutFadeOut: "Trouble (Éveils-infâmes)" has this ''three times''. The last one is borderline BringMyBrownPants.
47* HarshVocals: Duh. (See CarefulWithThatAxe for more information).
48* HiddenTrack: The aforementioned strange electronic outro on the album.
49* LastNoteNightmare: "Trouble (Éveils-infâmes)" has some BrownNote distorting by the end of the song and "La reine trayeuse" halfway has Audrey going on what sounds like a mental breakdown and divulging into a MadnessMantra.
50* LoudnessWar: Mostly averted; the EP is [=DR8=] and the album is [=DR9=]. However, the album still clips somewhat.
51* LyricalDissonance: The album/band title track and "Heurt" have some pretty happy-like sounding beats...and then you read the lyrics. Pretty bleak stuff.
52* MoodWhiplash: After the soothing "I XIII V XIX XV V XXI XVIII XIX - IX XIX - IV V I IV" you get hit with the ''intense'' "Trouble (Éveils-infâmes)". It's ''jolting'' to say the least. Then the album goes back to a relatively subdued state with "Video Girl", one of the quieter non-instrumentals on the album.
53* NonIndicativeName: "Amesoeurs" means 'Soulmates' in french, but considering the band's shitck...
54** It's also sort of a MeaningfulName: Fursy said the name came from the fact he considered himself, Neige, and Audrey to be "soulmates", as in partners and best friends. Made what happened to them a lot depressing.
55* PostPunk: Has some rather elaborate influence of Post-punk mixed in with {{Shoegaze}} and BlackMetal.
56* RedOniBlueOni: Amesoeurs is the blue to the red of Alcest: Amesoeurs is cold, raw, depressing, and isolated while Alcest is beauty, nostalgia, wistful, and hopeful (most times anyway). Alcest also portrays [[TheWorldIsJustAwesome the world as beautiful and full of wonder]], while Amesoeurs portrays [[CrapsackWorld the world as unloving, hateful, and filled with sorrow]].
57* ShoutOut: "Video Girl" is this to the romance manga ''Video Girl AI''.
58** Although this isn't officially confirmed, it's likely that the ending of "Trouble (Éveils-infâmes)" is one to the ending of "[[Music/InTheCourtOfTheCrimsonKing 21st Century Schizoid Man]]" by Music/KingCrimson. Each song, which is already the heaviest on its respective album, devolves into [[LastNoteNightmare utter cacophony]] with [[FakeOutFadeOut several false endings]] before transitioning straight into one of the quietest and most melodic songs on its respective album. The structure is similar enough to seem like a deliberate homage.
59* StartMyOwn: Fursy went to form Les Discrets once Amesoeurs was shut down.
60* SpiritualSuccessor: Many of the FollowTheLeader bands became this somewhat, mainly Lantlôs. Music/{{Alcest}}, Les Discrets, and even some later Peste Noire material (particularly ''L’Ordure à l’état Pur'') can also be considered this.
61** Les Discrets took it up to eleven with their third album ''Prédateurs'', which featured their usual ambiance like sound mixed in with Audrey Hadron (Fursy's wife)'s lyrics but retaining a sound similar to the hidden track in Amesoeurs's debut.
62* SpokenWordInMusic: In "Reucuillement", there's spoken word from Markus Stock, vocalist of Empyrium (as well as the album's producer), as he recites the final part of Charles Baudelaire's poem of the same name.
63* SopranoAndGravel: Neige and Audrey both shared vocal parts, Neige singing at least three songs off the album and Audrey singing half of it. Although Audrey [[CarefulWithThatAxe could also do screams...]]
64** Same could be said with ''Ruines humaines'': Neige does only two songs and Audrey does the final track.
65* [[DVDBonusContent Vinyl Bonus Content]]: Both vinyl releases of the self titled contain a demo version of "Gas in Veins".

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