ADX - Suprématie: A Gallic Gallop Through Metal Mayhem
Album Description:
ADX’s "Suprématie" (1987) is where the band stops sounding like eager students and starts sounding like they own the hallway. It’s French speed metal with the elbows out: brisk, sharp, and weirdly proud of its own rough edges. The riffs don’t politely “gallop” so much as they sprint past you, laughing, and the choruses hit with that late-’80s urgency that makes you turn the volume up before you even notice you did it.
Drop the needle and you can feel the record’s little opening feint—"Nostromo"—then the title track comes in like it’s already mid-argument. "Le Jugement de Salem" has that forward-leaning bite, and "Notre Dame De Paris" carries the album’s meaner sense of drama without turning it into theatre class. Melodic, sure—but not soft. More like steel that still remembers the furnace.
The credits matter only because they explain why it punches so cleanly: released by Sydney Productions, produced by Jean-Paul Godest, with Laurent Thibault on engineering/mixing. It’s not sterile, it’s focused—every instrument gets its space, then immediately uses that space to shove somebody. Put it on the shelf if you want, but it was never built for polite storage.
