French black metal vanguard SETH are unveiling a radical reinterpretation of Serge Gainsbourg’s infamous 1968 ode to Brigitte Bardot. Originally steeped in orchestral melancholy and sensual decadence, Seth’s cover of “Initials B.B.” emerges as a ceremonial descent through the fractured heart of post-Christian France—a realm haunted by divine absence, erotic delirium and the relics of fallen gods.
Watch the music video for “Initials B.B.” below:
Seth’s latest album La France des Maudits is out now on Season of Mist.
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“Initials B.B.” emerges as a new chapter in Seth’s ongoing rite of desecration. Falling on Bastille Day and the first anniversary of the French black metal institution’s latest album, the song deepens the image that the band have been conjuring of a France scorched by desire and spiritual collapse. As the republic recalls its hour of uprising, the band conjure another insurrection: one of shadows and silhouettes, where sound and image bleed together in an unholy communion.
As with the iconoclastic cosmology of La France des Maudits, Seth reimagine Brigette Bardot. In their blackened visage, she is as a mythic seductress, a corrupted Marianne veiled in red, muse to apostasy and forbidden glamour. Where Gainsbourg once sighed, the band now roars, threading the actresses memory into the album’s scarlet lineage of insurgent saints, diabolical poets and cast-out lovers.
The video for “Initials B.B.” was created by Pierre Reynard (@pierrereynard)
Prepare to march beneath the banner unfurled by SETH, in the grand tradition of those unyielding souls who once stormed the Bastille and dared to dream of a world remade. La France des Maudits beckons - not to the gallows, but to glory.
Lineup:
Heimoth - Keyboards, Guitars (Sinsaenum)
Alsvid - Drums (ex-Enthroned, Ad Patres)
EsX - Bass (Arkhon Infaustus, ex-Merrimack)
Saint Vincent - Vocals (Black Lodge)
Pierre Le Pape - Keyboards (Melted Space)
Drakhian - Guitars (ex-Loudblast, Griffar)
Recording Studio:
Sainte Marthe Studio
Production Credits:
Mixed, produced & mastered by Francis Caste
Cover Art:
Andy Julia (Photography)
Order & Stream: https://orcd.co/sethlafrancesdesmaudits
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