French mysterious black metal act Sainte Marie des Loups sets 25th November via Amor Fati Productions as the international release date for the highly anticipated second album entitled Funérailles de Feu. Sainte Marie des Loups may make mystery and near-anonymity a virtue, but its expression is nothing if not direct, forceful, and feverishly artful. Indeed, raw and grim and even punkish at times may be the band's attack, but there's equally a sense of aristocratic grandeur, a questing for absolution, a regal melodicism smothered in ashes of unknown origins.

With the second album, Funérailles de Feu, does Sainte Marie des Loups truly come into its own. The band's self-titled debut album, released in 2018 by the late/great Fallen Empire, was a blitzed'n'bleary smear of wayward melody and ethereal filth; on its follow-up, those rudiments are extended and embellished, rendered in more robust form.