I like making lists and I have made lists with music from Japan, Belgium, Africa and Australia and now I have one about France. This is a list with noiserock, psych and heavy fuzz. I am open to suggestions and will keep updating this list with stuff I forgot and new stuff. Tune in and enjoy.
France
Kinda fits to start with the band France. This trio makes extremely hypnotic psych. Ended up real high on my end of the year list of 2020 too.
The Psychotic Monks
Really love this band, they make very heavy layered atmospheric rock.
Sofy Major
Excellent noiserock from France!
Karkara
Karkara is from Toulouse and makes gorgeous fuzzed out psych. They have a new album called ‘Nowhere Land’.
Fatima
Fuzzy stonerdoom from Paris!
Lysistrata
A mix of noiserock and postrock.
Modulator II
This band makes the most gorgeous heavy fuzz. Highly psychedelic with some garage vibes!
Dusty Mush
From Melun comes the trio Dusty Mush. High energy garagepsych who just released a new EP.
Igorrr
Igorrr makes all kinds of weird metal and they just have to be on this list because i love weird.
J.C. Satan
Bordeaux based band J.C. Satan makes whatever they like.
Rosaire
From Saint Brieuc comes Rosaire who mix garage in psych.
Cheveau
Experimental wild stuff from the Parisian ban Cheveau
Mange Ferraille
Experimental trippy music from Lyon.
ORGÖNE
Excellent heavy psych with some doom vibes.
Slift
One of the rising stars in space rock.
SCRTCH
High quality noiserock from Lille.
Pord
Noiserock from Marvejols
Schizo
Psychedelic rock from 1972.
The Liminanas
The duo from Perpignan makes hazy pop/psych
L’Epée
This is The Liminanas and Antone Newcombe from the Brian Jonestown Massacre.
Sloy
Sloy formed in Béziers, France, in 1991.
Les yeux de la Tête
Sax and noiserock is always a good combination.
Pneu
Very wild mathy noise rock.
We Insist!
Quite original heaviness from the Parisian band We Insist!
A Shape
Experimental noiserock from Paris/Toulouse.
Moodoid
Neo-psychedelia from Paris
Popera Cosmic
considered to be France’s first dedicated psychedelic album and the shrouded blueprint for the hugely influential Gallic concept album phenomenon that followed – including Serge Gainsbourg’s Histoire De Melody Nelson and Gérard Manset’s La Mort D’Orion.
Poutre
agressive noiserock fromes Arles.
Birds in Row
Hardcorepunk from Laval
DAiKiRI
The French Melt-Banana
Nose in the Nose
riff fueled Noiserock from Saint Étienne.
Flaming Demonics
Slushy
80’s experimental heaviness
Programme
Passe Montagne
Presque Maudit
Marilyn-Rambo
Awesome noiserock from Languedoc-Roussillo.
Ça
Chevreuil
‘Fils unique’ was recorded by Steve Albini.
Room 204
Kourgane
Echoplain
A trio from Paris that makes agressive postpunk/noiserock.
Vatours
Very angry harcore/noise/punk from Lille.
Valse Noot
Very awesome noiserock from Brest.
Cabale
The French rockers Cabale are going to release a new Ep and the first track from the EP is out and is called ‘Ditch’. The trio is made up of Rabih Gebeile (Mondo Cane, Murmuration, Backbone Party) on bass and vocals, Arthur Travert (Maud Octallinn, Sundown, Vodka Gun) on drums and Michel Malégeant (Moonman & The Unlikely Orchestra, Desmond Korma, Maps of Jupiter) on guitar.
Carver
New EP ‘White Trash’ is out now!
Wizard
A new band from Bordeaux that absolutely shreds your face of.
Black Ink Stain
From Clermont Ferrand comes Black Ink Stain, wich makes riff feuled sludge noiserock.
Tabatha Crash
This trio makes great noiserock that is fast paces and melodic, their latest album ‘Twist’ was released last year in November
Fuzzy Sun 