Rather than counting down the days until we can celebrate Christmas, this year we’re bringing you a series of metal posts will be celebrating the countdown until we don’t have to be inundated with Christmas music and decorations everywhere. To coincide with this countdown we’ll be posting our top 25 metal (and metal-ish) albums of 2012. 25 days of hell, 25 rad metal albums to make up for it.
At this point, Alcest are barely metal in any way, having journeyed far from their black metal beginnings to a foray in shoegaze. Throughout Les voyages de l’âme there are moments …

