GROS ENFANT MORT Releases New Single "Étranger à la Terre"!

With their brand new single "Étranger à la Terre", French post-hardcore four-piece GROS ENFANT MORT continue to carve out an uncompromising emotional landscape ahead of their forthcoming album "Le sang des Pierres", due out January 23, 2026 via Moment of Collapse Records.

"Étranger à la Terre" is out now and you can listen below or stream it HERE.

GROS ENFANT MORT explain: "This song explores the quiet, insidious way depression can take hold, often without us realizing it, until it slowly builds a sense of alienation that disconnects us from others and from ourselves. It questions the societal pressure to be resilient: to stay strong, to bounce back, to turn every fall into a lesson, even when standing back up feels impossible. It confronts the futility of symbolic band-aids placed over deep wounds, and the violence of having to pretend everything is fine while silently falling apart inside."

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.