GROS ENFANT MORT Unleash Video for New Single "Merci les cendres"

January 23, 2026 will see the release of "Le sang des Pierres", the brand-new album by French post-hardcore four-piece GROS ENFANT MORT, arriving via Moment of Collapse Records. Following the first single, "Saigne Saigne Saigne" (Listen), the band now unveils its latest track, "Merci les cendres". The song is accompanied by a new music video, directed and edited by Arthur Chowca, which you can watch below!

Stream the single HERE

Speaking about the single, the band explains:

"This song captures the fragile moment when, after watching one’s life go up in smoke, depression finally begins to lift. Sensations return, colors reappear, and with them, the possibility of a future - even if uncertain, even if built on ruins. It speaks of the lucid and painful decision to keep moving forward, using the still-warm embers and ashes of the past as the foundation for rebuilding. Caught between hope and vertigo, it’s a tentative attempt to be reborn in a world that’s still burning“.

Tracklist:

1. Cloué au sol 

2. Saigne! Saigne! Saigne! 

3. Château de cartes 

4. 3114 

5. Étranger à la Terre 

6. Paillasson 4ever 

7. L'art de perdre 

8. Merci les cendres 

9. Le sang des pierres

With "Le Sang des Pierres" GROS ENFANT MORT turn exhaustion into defiance. The Poitiers-based band - rooted in French screamo and post-hardcore traditions - craft a record that feels less like catharsis and more like survival. Born from emptiness and collapse, it captures the slow erosion of self under social pressure, isolation, and the absurdity of modern life.

Where 2022’s "La Banalité du Mal" dissected everyday cruelty, "Le Sang des Pierres" internalizes it. Depression here isn’t treated as a personal flaw, but as the symptom of a system that alienates and consumes. The band doesn’t seek healing or redemption; they bear witness.

Musically, the album hits harder than anything they’ve done before - dense, raw, and relentless. Guitars slash through walls of noise, drums hammer like a trapped heartbeat, while fleeting melodic fragments flicker through the ruins. It’s chaotic, but never directionless - a precise portrait of collapse and resistance intertwined.

Yet, amid the heaviness, there’s light: the "smell of rain on dry earth," a fragile reminder that life persists. GROS ENFANT MORT call it a "constructive rage" - not despair, but refusal. A decision to keep moving, even when the ground splits beneath you.

"Le Sang des Pierres" isn’t a comfort record. It’s a document of endurance - a howl against resignation, and proof that even at the edge, something within us still insists on surviving.

The album will be out on January 23, 2026 via Moment of Collapse Records and is available for pre-order at THIS LOCATION