Not actual footage of the French population on its way to burn down the First and Second estates on the inaugural Bastille Day. French history does not seem like a particularly metal subject. It seems like it would be heavy on horizontally-striped shirts, excessively long cigarette holders, berets and…

Coming off its 2016 opus, Paradise Gallows, Inter Arma was still getting lumped in with the doom metal troop. It was understandably frustrating, considering the Virginia quintet’s unique blend of old-school death metal, psychedelic sludge and avant-garde black metal. Beside the gargantuan riffs of Steven Russell and Trey Dalton, Andrew…