Band – Les Guillotines Délirés
Album – Les Guillotines Délirés
Country of Origin – Netherlands
Genre – Experimental Black Metal
Release Date – April 4, 2025
Label – Fiadh Productions
Author – Hayduke X
We are so proud to present “Why They Fight,” the first publicly available noises from new project Les Guillotines Délirés. This particular track, likely my favorite of the four exceptional tracks on the album, serves as a thesis statement for the concept embedded within (to be discussed in the full review below). With slow, steady strumming to start the track off, “Why They Fight” builds into an ominous, but introspective state, so that when the chaos finally drops, the listener doesn’t immediately realize. Layers of sound – electronic, guitar, drums, synth, howls from the abyss – immerse us so that we hear the importance of this work. Listen below, then continue on for my full review of the album.
Ok, so hear me out. Thematically, Les Guillotines Délirés is about “a swarm of vigilante guillotines on a nazi-hunting murder spree.” My reaction to reading that in the promotional materials was that the album was going to be goofy. I was also incredibly on-board before hearing a note, because if I knew how to build nazi-hunting guillotines, I would be hard at work doing so right now. So, with maybe a bit of a smirk, I pressed play,…
…and was immediately enveloped in a forward thinking and ominously entrancing mix of sounds and styles, clearly black metal at its core, but much more than that also. This is for sure not TRVE KVLT black metal, though it’s probably ready to hunt some of those who purport to be. This is a soundtrack to righteous violence, protection with purpose, and a brighter, wiser future through tremolo riffs, electronic rhythms, and screams of impassioned rage.
Les Guillotines Délirés is a brand new solo project from Rotterdam, The Netherlands by Partisan PAVL, also of Imagine A Boot and Netansatan. Of the track we are streaming today, Partisan PAVL writes the following:
‘“Why They Fight” deals with one of the darkest episodes of Partisan PAVL’s family history. After the invasion of Nazi Germany in May of 1940, The Netherlands suffered its biggest wave of suicides. Especially Jewish people saw no other way to escape the gruesome fate of the Nazi occupation than by taking their own life. Many of them had fled Germany earlier to get away from the oppression and persecution of the Nazis. Among those suicides two of Partisan PAVL’s ancestors and their families.’
Through the lens of this tragic history, PAVL envisions a better world, but understands that first the cancer of fascism must be removed from the collective body of the world. The song ends with the lines:
This is why…
Why they fight
Never again
means never again
Extirpate! Obliterate! Eradicate!
Now is never again
With blade and spirit they deliver our future
Biography: Hayduke X has been writing for MoshPitNation since June of 2016. He is also a contributor to The Metal Wanderlust. Prior to joining the MoshPitNation team, Hayduke published reviews on his own blog Rage and Frustration. In addition, he has DJ’ed an online metal radio show of the same name as his blog, written for TOmetal.com, done interviews for Metal Rules, and collaborated with The Art of B Productions to create video interviews with a wide variety of bands.
