No Return
The last few years has seen a minor revival in French bands
making inroads in the international metal scene, after
a stretch of many years where it appeared no one from that
country played metal at all, at least not outside its borders.
Here we have one of the better of these bands in No Return.
Formed back in 1989, they released several albums (not
reviewed here) that garnered them a following in their home
country, but with 2000's
Self Mutilition came worldwide
acclaim.
A crunchy death/thrash fest in the vein of
The Haunted,
The Crown, or perhaps
Ritual Carnage,
Self Mutilation packs a punch, with solid riffing and
an excellent production, pretty much a faultless package.
Their following album,
Machinery, is reportedly in the same
mold, with an increased presence from samplist
Marko Pouchin.
A solid and recommended band.
Current Members
L Chuck D.
vocals
Alain Clement
guitars
Nicolas Coudert
guitars
(Korum)
David Barbosa
bass
Boban Tomic
drums
(Korum)
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Former Members/Guests
Philippe Ordon
vocals
Tanguy
vocals
Steeve Petit
vocals
Moreno Grosso
vocals
Eric Le Baron
guitars
Benoit Antonia
guitars
Laurent Janaut
bass
Olivier Herol
bass
Jiu
bass
Malko Pouchin
keyboards/samples
Didier Le Baron
drums
Dirk Verbeuren (guest)
drums
(Aborted, Lyzanxia, Malevolence, One-Way Mirror, Phazm, Powermad, Scarve, Soilwork, Yyrkoon)
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Discography
Psychological Torment
1990
Semetery
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- Mutants' march
- Reign of the damned
- Vision of decadence
- Tragic giving
- Radical disease
- Degeneration of the last decade
- Nightly aggression
- Electro mania
- Religion
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- Philippe Ordon
- Alain Clement
- Eric Le Baron
- Laurent Janaut
- Didier Le Baron
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Contamination Rises
1992
Semetery
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- Damnation
- Memories
- Raving lunatic
- Uncontrolled situation
- Trash world
- Sacred bones
- World of impurities
- Civil war
- Perversion
- Sorrow
- Mass grave
- Revolt of the hanged
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- Philippe Ordon
- Alain Clement
- Eric Le Baron
- Laurent Janaut
- Didier Le Baron
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Seasons Of Soul
1995
Semetery
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- Damnation
- Paralysed conflicts
- No respect / news reel
- Worrying / law of silence
- While poverty reigns
- Circle of hypocrisy
- Soul's virginity
- Psychological revenge
- Injustice system
- Wisdom
- Loaded gun #13
- Just one step (psychic sketch)
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- Tanguy
- Alain Clement
- Laurent Janaut
- Didier Le Baron
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(EP) Red Embers
1997
CNR
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- Sea of tranquility
- Artificial paradise
- Pictures
- The way of the walk
- Infinite divisibility
- You burst into tears
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- Tanguy
- Alain Clement
- Laurent Janaut
- Didier Le Baron
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Self Mutilation
2000
Listenable
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- Do Or Die
- Truth And Reality
- Lost
- Soul Extractor
- Sadistic Desire
- The True Way
- Fanatic Mind
- Individualistic Ideal
- One Life
- Trail Of Blood
- Sect
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- Steeve Petit
- Alain Clement
- Benoit Antonia
- Olivier Herol
- Malko Pouchin
- Didier Le Baron
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Reviews: Chronicles Of Chaos
Lords Of Metal
Machinery
2002
Kodiak
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- Machinery
- The Recycler
- Violator
- Synthetic
- Disillusion
- Virus
- Resurrection
- Disease
- Dynamo
- The Last Act
- Biomechanoid
- Secret Face
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- Steeve Petit
- Alain Clement
- Benoit Antonia
- Malko Pouchin
- Didier Le Baron
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Reviews: Sea Of Tranquility
Lords Of Metal
Metal Observer
No Return
2006
Season Of Mist
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- Despair
- Don't Judge Me
- Rust In You
- Utopia
- Trauma
- Sanction
- Endless World
- One Day
- Holy Money
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- Moreno Grosso
- Alain Clement
- Benoit Antonia
- Jiu
- Malko Pouchin
- Dirk Verbeuren
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Manipulated Mind
2008
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- Manipulated Mind
- Puzzle of Life
- Rising
- Take me Beyond
- New Items
- Blackness
- Carnal Violence
- The Right Course
- Out of Control
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- Moreno Grosso
- Alain Clement
- Nicolas Coudert
- David Barbosa
- Boban Tomic
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Inner Madness
2012
Great Dane
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- N.I.L. 2
- Inquisitive Hegemony (S€v€n)
- Backdoor
- Near Death Experiences
- Morgane's Song
- Inner Madness
- Borderline
- The Dead Inside
- Death Scars
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- L Chuck D.
- Alain Clement
- Nicolas Coudert
- David Barbosa
- Boban Tomic
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