“La Morsure” by CONTRE-FEUX: A Cry from the Depths of Societal Struggles

With their new EP “La Morsure“, French screamo band CONTRE–FEUX has etched a narrative seeped in the throes of political fervor and raw emotion. Their newest offering is a historical account, a reactive manifesto sparked between the years 2018 and 2022—a tumultuous era marked by sweeping social movements and governmental repression in France. “This record was written between 2018 and 2022, a period which saw successive political and social defeats in France, alongside an increase in police brutality and repression. In fact, since the election of Emmanuel Macron in 2017, between the yellow vest revolt, the pension protests, and the