THE PRESTIGE Usher In A New Artistic Chapter With Their New Single “Noire Nuit” Click to teach Gmail that this conversation is important

Hailing from Paris, The Prestige continues its evolution and opens a new chapter with “Noire Nuit”, a brand-new single accompanied by a video, and the first extract from their upcoming album, due out in Spring via Banshies. More than a simple preview, the track unfolds as an immediate immersion into a suffocating, dark, and organic universe. Recorded live, then mixed by Amaury Sauvé (The Apiary) and mastered by Thibaut Chaumont (Deviant Lab), “Noire Nuit” marks a significant step in the band’s trajectory. Here, The Prestige pushes its hardcore and post-metal identity to the edge, adopting a tuning far lower than on the previous album. Their visceral, adrenaline-fueled sound mutates into something heavier, more bogged down, more unhealthy, yet also riddled with cracks and vulnerability, as if violence could no longer exist without its emotional counterpart.

The song addresses depression through a central metaphor: a viscous swamp in which every attempt to move only worsens the sinking. Alex Diaz (vocals/guitar/piano/synth) reflects on this founding image: “While going through a difficult period in my life, I felt that the more I tried to struggle and look for futile solutions, to the point of draining all my energy, the deeper I was sinking into a state of distress”. He describes it as a futile fight “like quicksand or a sticky swamp” where the survival instinct paradoxically becomes destructive. The way out does not come from a sudden burst of strength, but from stopping: “It was by understanding that I had to accept my situation and make sense of it that I was able to climb back up”.

This feeling of sinking is not just a narrative theme, it's embedded in the very structure of the song. “Noire Nuit” relies on an unstable, deliberately disorienting meter that disrupts any sense of linear progression. Thibaut Cavelier (drums) explains that “The song’s particular beat reinforces the impression of mud that’s hard to move through” with each bar seeming heavier than the last. Movement becomes hesitant, almost clumsy: “each step is heavier than the previous one. You stagger. You falter”. A way to make mental exhaustion physically tangible. Within this opaque mass, The Prestige nonetheless introduces something new: a sung, central refrain, almost luminous by contrast. Fabien Gagnière (guitar) points out that this choice is far from insignificant: “The sung chorus reminds us that despite the feeling that nothing can get better, there is always a light in the darkness”. This melodic anchor, rare in the band’s discography, acts as a fragile breath at the heart of the chaos, and represents “Something quite new for the band, to have a chorus that is so central within a song”.

After the live recording, the band extended the process in their studio through a more experimental phase. Julien Bouladoux (bass) mentions “A few days spent doing extensive sound design work with vintage and modular synths” not to smooth things out, but to “Add even more texture and depth to the sound”. These subtle layers heighten the feeling of suffocation and give the track an almost tactile dimension, as if the sound itself were sticking to the skin.

The lyrics, blending French and English, reinforce this sense of inner confusion: languages intertwine, clash, and overlap, mirroring thoughts that spiral and contradict one another. Directed by the band themselves, the video extends this unfiltered approach, visually translating this sticky darkness and the silent struggle against oneself. With “Noire Nuit” The Prestige is not merely aiming for greater heaviness. The band deliberately ventures into an uncomfortable space, where sonic violence coexists with the admission of weakness, laying the foundations for an album announced as deeply introspective, dark, dense, and demanding - both for those who listen to it and for those who created it.

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