Hangman's Chair

Hangman's Chair
Hangman's Chair in 2023
Background information
OriginCrosne, Essonne, France
Genres
Years active2005–2025
Labels
Past members
  • Julien Chanut
  • Mehdi Birouk Thépegnier
  • Sid-Ahmed Azzouni
  • Kéo Nackphouminh
  • Adrien Lederer
  • Bernard Quarante
  • Clément Hanvic
  • Cédric Toufouti
Websitehangmanschair.com

Hangman's Chair were a French doom metal band formed in Crosne, Essonne, in 2005. The group's final lineup consisted of vocalist and guitarist Cédric Toufouti, guitarist Julien Chanut, bassist Clément Hanvic and drummer Mehdi Birouk Thépegnier.

With roots in the hardcore punk scene and after participating in several local bands, Chanut, Thépegnier and Sid-Ahmed Azzouni formed Hangman's Chair. The band's debut album, (A Lament for...) The Addicts, released in 2007, featured Kéo Nackphouminh on vocals. After Nackphouminh's departure and the band's reconfiguration, they released Leaving Paris in 2010. Both albums were more oriented towards stoner and sludge metal. Azzouni died in 2010.

With a stable lineup in place, Hangman's Chair launched a trilogy, beginning with the 2012 album Hope /// Dope /// Rope, when they found a musical identity and worked to dissociate themselves from the stoner and sludge metal designations. This Is Not Supposed To Be Positive, released in 2015, marked the introduction of coldwave synthesisers into their sound. Their fifth album, Banlieue Triste (2018), showcased an abundant use of reverb and chorus effects. Hangman's Chair have been praised for blending doom metal and post-punk atmospherics. They then signed with Spinefarm Records for releases in all territories outside France; they also benefited from media exposure in the country.

Hangman's Chair left Spinefarm and signed with Nuclear Blast Records in 2021. The following year saw the release of A Loner, which was characterised by more melody, introspection, and atmospheric and gothic sounds. The album was the first of a new trilogy and spawned the singles "Loner", "Who Wants To Die Old" and "Cold & Distant". 2025's Saddiction continued where A Loner had left off, blending their metal with gothic and coldwave, while also integrating shoegaze, post-rock and other musical styles. It spawned four singles, including "2 am Thoughts". The band's themes are generally dark and gloomy, set amidst mysterious, "claustrophobic" urban landscapes, while their discography demonstrates a gradual transition towards a clean singing voice. Hangman's Chair suspended their activities in November 2025 for an indefinite period.

History

Origins (1992–2004)

Julien Chanut grew up in the Essonne department,[1] south of Paris, in France.[2] Mehdi Birouk Thépegnier,[3] born in Morocco (Maghreb), arrived in France at the age of 12.[4] They met in 1992[5] at a college in Essonne, and they became friends.[4] Chanut and Thépegnier were passionate about 1990s hardcore punk, heavy metal and grunge.[4] The hardcore scene consisting of bands such as Confusion, Integrity, Only Living Witness, Section 8, and Sheer Terror, and the do-it-yourself philosophy associated with this culture, motivated them to perform music.[6] Chanut found his path between the ages of 13 and 14 by beginning to play hardcore punk.[1] The two friends first stepped onto the stage at around 15 or 16.[7]

Thépegnier was a member of Mouvement Colère (lit. 'Anger Movement') and later a bassist in Drowning, which toured as the opening act for All Out War and Merauder.[8] Over time, Chanut and Thépegnier performed in various local bands, including Arkangel (band), Es la Guerilla and Rising Dust.[4] Clément Hanvic was part of their circle; he was the singer of Knockoutz and the bassist of L'Esprit du Clan and Es la Guerilla. The bassist for Knockoutz was Kéo Nackphouminh.[8] After playing bass for a while, Thépegnier switched to drums.[7]

Formation and (A Lament for...) The Addicts (2005–2007)

In 2005, Chanut (guitar), Thépegnier (drums), and Sid-Ahmed Azzouni (guitar) formed the metal band Hangman's Chair[3][4] in Crosne,[9] Essonne.[10][11][12]

The band's first album, (A Lament for...) The Addicts,[13] was released in 2007[14][15] via the Bones Brigade Records label, with Chanut, Thépegnier,[16] Nackphouminh (vocals),[1] Adrien Lederer (guitar), and Bernard Quarante (bass).[16] Chanut later told Clara Lemaire of Rock & Folk that Nackphouminh had not stayed in the band for long, as he went through "a lot of bad moments".[1]

Lineup change, Azzouni's death and Leaving Paris (2008–2011)

In 2008, Hangman's Chair were joined by Hanvic, who became the bassist, and Cédric Toufouti, who took over as singer-guitarist.[4]

In 2010, Azzouni died in a car accident.[3][4] Leaving Paris, the band's second album, was released the same year,[14] through Bones Brigade Records, with Chanut, Thépegnier, Hanvic, Toufouti, and Lederer in the lineup.[17]

Hope /// Dope /// Rope and This Is Not Supposed To Be Positive (2012–2017)

The following album, Hope /// Dope /// Rope,[1] was released in 2012.[6][18] The album "marked a turning point in our history", said Thépegnier, the band having found, with the arrival of Toufouti and Hanvic, stability and a musical identity.[18] With Hope /// Dope /// Rope, the band made a name for themselves on the metal scene.[6]

The band's next album, This Is Not Supposed To Be Positive, was released in 2015.[1][4][19]

Hangman's Chair were in the habit of recording three or four additional tracks at each studio recording session for their albums, intended for split album releases. While Chanut was on tour in Japan with Arkangel, he met the members of Greenmachine. Hangman's Chair subsequently recorded a split album with Greenmachine, released through Music Fear Satan in France and Daymare Recordings in Japan.[20]

Banlieue Triste (2018–2020)

Hangman's Chair's fifth album, Banlieue Triste (lit. 'Sad Suburb'),[21] was released in March 2018[22] through the Parisian independent label Music Fear Satan.[4] It includes a collaboration with French synthwave musician Perturbator on "Tired Eyes".[3][23] The album, characterised by profuse use of reverb and chorus,[24] spawned a music video for "Naive" released in April 2018, starring French actor Nicolas Duvauchelle.[25] Duvauchelle, who was part of the Parisian hardcore scene with his band Cry Havoc and is a longtime friend of Hangman's Chair, stated: "I didn't hesitate for a second. They're such a negative band, and I love it"[26] He played his part as a volunteer.[27]

Banlieue Triste was "already very noticed", said Frank Colombani of Le Monde, and the band was therefore courted by the Spinefarm Records label.[4] On 28 September 2018, the album was released by Spinefarm Records in all territories outside France. A special double-vinyl edition of the album was released simultaneously, following the signing of the quartet Chanut, Thépegnier, Hanvic, and Toufouti to Spinefarm Records, thereby guaranteeing worldwide distribution for their future recordings.[28]

The album was a continuation of This Is Not Supposed To Be Positive, with personal themes.[29] Hope /// Dope /// Rope, This Is Not Supposed To Be Positive and Banlieue Triste "are part of a whole", Chanut said.[1] On Banlieue Triste, Hangman's Chair addressed the same thematic elements but less metaphorically, taking a more straightforward approach. The lyrics evoke a band member's overdose with his narrowly averted death in 2016 on "04/09/16" and the loss of family on "Negative Male Child" and mental health and its associated difficulties on "Touch The Razor". The instrumental "Sidi Bel Abbes" was a tribute to Azzouni.[3]

Banlieue Triste enabled the band to appear on the French television channel Canal+ in L'album de la Semaine (lit. 'Album of the Week'), as well as on FIP and France Inter, and to obtain articles in the mainstream press.[29] While the band frequently toured the Upper France region during the winter of 2018, they opened for Zeal & Ardor at L'Aéronef in Lille and for Samael in Dunkirk. They regularly performed in Belgium and the Netherlands because their manager was based in Lille.[29]

On 16 August 2019, Hangman's Chair performed at the Psycho Las Vegas festival in the US, and later that year released a four-track EP, Bus de Nuit (lit. 'Night Bus'), featuring two unreleased tracks and two remixes.[30] It was preceded by the single "Lost Brothel" in line with the dark themes addressed by the band: "Prostitution, night, suburbia and unhappy loves".[30]

A collaborative performance by Hangman's Chair and black metal band Regarde Les Hommes Tomber, which took place live in Paris on 25 September 2019 during the Major Arcana evening as part of the Red Bull Music Festival,[31] was due to be repeated at the Roadburn Festival 2020, but was ultimately cancelled.[32]

A Loner (2020–2023)

Hangman's Chair recorded the album A Loner between December 2020 and January 2021 for an October release, but concert cancellations delayed it.[33] The band returned to record with Francis Caste for the sixth time,[34] at his Studio Sainte-Marthe in the 10th arrondissement of Paris.[35]

Thépegnier said that the band's relationship with their former labels, Bones Brigade and Music Fear Satan, had always gone well. They had high expectations for Spinefarm Records, but ultimately, things did not go as planned.[18] "Communication with Spinefarm has become very complicated", said Thépegnier.[4] To amicably terminate their contract, Hangman's Chair initiated negotiations through their new manager. They were approached by the German and French offices of Nuclear Blast Records.[18] The deal had accelerated after the opening of the French office because the band had already been in contact with the German office since This Is Not Supposed To Be Positive.[18]

Following their signing with Nuclear Blast Records, Hangman's Chair released a single titled "Cold & Distant" on 21 May 2021,[36] accompanied by its music video featuring French actress Béatrice Dalle.[33][37] In early October 2021, the band released a new single titled "Loner", which was accompanied by a music video.[38] The band also composed the soundtrack for the French rapper Joeystarr's Gang Stories podcast.[18][33]

On 3 January 2022, Hangman's Chair appeared on the Culturebox program on France 4.[18][33] The band released the single "Who Wants To Die Old" along with a music video,[39] directed by Oscar Bizarre, and filmed before "Cold & Distant".[40] A Loner was released in February 2022.[37][41] Mathieu David of Rolling Stone France said that Hangman's Chair "experiments, plays with effects, textures and nuances".[41] At this stage of their musical evolution, the band demonstrated a greater presence of melodies and introspection and was sometimes more atmospheric.[37] A piece was finally performed by the pairing of Hangman's Chair and Regarde Les Hommes Tomber at the Roadburn Festival 2022 in Tilburg, Netherlands.[32]

Arte Concert and Rolling Stone France teamed up to broadcast the band's performance at Hellfest 2022 on YouTube.[42] On 26 June 2022, the band collaborated once again with the Nantes-based band Regarde Les Hommes Tomber for a concert on the Valley stage at Hellfest.[43] On 16 July 2022, Hangman's Chair performed at the annual multi-genre music festival Les Francofolies in La Rochelle, France.[44] The band toured with Paradise Lost and then spent another five weeks performing at festivals.[45]

In 2023, Hangman's Chair were encouraged by their label to release a short, three-minute documentary titled A Portrait, directed by Kendy TyOrder, in which the band members recount their career and the A Loner era in a condensed and introspective way. For the documentary, the musicians returned to their neighbourhood, the school, and the playground where they grew up.[45] In July 2023, the band performed at the Dour Festival in Belgium.[46]

Saddiction and hiatus (2024–2025)

In October 2024, the band released the single "2 am Thoughts" and its music video, taken from the upcoming seventh album, Saddiction.[47] "2 am Thoughts" features a guest appearance from Raven van Dorst of Dool.[48] The music video follows Nackphouminh, the original singer of Hangman's Chair, through a day in his life, three years after he adopted a healthier lifestyle combining sport and spiritual exploration.[1] He is the author of the video's closing line.[1] Other singles followed, each with an accompanying music video: "Kowloon Lights",[49] "Healed?",[50] and "The Worst is Yet to Come".[51]

On 14 February 2025, Hangman's Chair's album Saddiction was released via Nuclear Blast Records, with the group's lineup remaining unchanged: Chanut, Thépegnier, Hanvic, and Toufouti.[49] Saddiction continued in the vein of A Loner by being "more personal, more introspective", with Chanut stating that these albums would be part of a new trilogy.[1][52] David wrote that Hangman's Chair "continues to weave their simultaneously heavy and hovering ambiences amidst mysterious urban landscapes". He added that while A Loner "hovered at 10,000 feet in an ethereal cloud, Saddiction brings back the riffs, reminiscent of the harshest ambiences of Banlieue Triste".[53]

In mid-November 2025, Hangman's Chair announced on their social media that the band was going on hiatus "for an indefinite period" and that their online merchandise store would close on 31 December.[54] The band stated that the store will reopen "as soon as the band becomes active again".[55]

Musical style

Influences and inspirations

Hangman's Chair were influenced by Type O Negative,[12][56] 1980s post-punk, Asylum Party, Nothing, Sad Lovers & Giants, Slowdive, and Soft Kill.[1]

The band were inspired by coldwave music.[1] Chanut and Toufouti also cited Alice in Chains, Chris Cornell, and Dax Riggs as musical and artistic inspirations.[57]

Life in Paris has influenced the band, and their "way of living" in the city is reflected in their music by a more pronounced "urban mood" and a "cold atmosphere" than is usually associated with this type of "dark metal".[21]

Coming from a hardcore background, the members of Hangman's Chair appreciated the similar trajectory of Type O Negative, with Thépegnier particularly liking the way Carnivore, Peter Steele's previous band, sounded on the album Retaliation.[56] Thépegnier cited Type O Negative's style as inspiring, describing their music as "urban cold wave hardcore" that blended "dark" gothic metal with the Brooklyn urban atmosphere, a combination primarily apparent in their lyrics and album covers.[21] For Hangman's Chair, the city of Paris is a source of inspiration.[21] The band initially drew inspiration from "old Paris", particularly from neighbourhoods like Barbès, Ménilmontant and Pigalle. However, their 2018 album, Banlieue Triste, focused on the suburbs where they grew up.[20]

Chanut was musically influenced by the Sound's From the Lions Mouth and its lyrics by Adrian Borland when composing 2022's A Loner.[40] For the sound of his guitar on this album, he cited Slip by Quicksand and Brighter Than a Thousand Suns by Killing Joke for guitar effects.[40]

Sound

Genres

Hangman's Chair have generally been considered a doom metal,[a] stoner (rock or doom),[b] sludge metal,[1][7] doom rock,[59] gothic metal,[62] progressive [metal],[7] and coldwave band.[1]

In 2018, Rich Hobson of Metal Hammer wrote: "Hangman's Chair are masters of utilising a blend of doom metal riffs and moody post-punk atmospherics".[3] Journalist Jean-Charles Desgroux said in 2022 that the band dares to experiment beyond doom, sludge "or at worst that muddy stoner which they will never claim".[33] In 2022, Angela Davey and Nick Ruskell of Kerrang! wrote that the band blends gothic rock and epic doom metal.[63] Hobson described their music the same year as "80s-tinged goth-doom".[64] The newspaper L'Alsace echoed these statements in 2023, describing the band's sound as a "melancholic doom tinged with cold wave".[65]

In 2025, Toufouti stated that the band did not like tags, though they appreciated the term "cold doom" to describe their music.[7]

Development

Chanut told Lemaire: "Our first two albums were a bit of tests. We were very Sludge, very Stoner, with influences not well digested yet".[1] Hangman's Chair have been described as a "French doom rock band" or, in its early days, as sludge or even "stoner", which led Thépegnier to acknowledge that being categorised within the doom scene did not bother the band members because their instruments are tuned "very low" and they play at slow tempos. "We sounded Sludge in our beginning", he said, adding, "I think we moved away from that pretty quickly". Thépegnier rejected any comparison to the "stoner" genre, further saying, "We are very far from Stoner, both in terms of imagery and the 'psychedelic rock' side".[18]

Chanut stated that 2012's Hope /// Dope /// Rope had enabled "to detach ourselves from all this stoner stuff, sludge, that sticks to us".[33] 2015's This Is Not Supposed To Be Positive marked the use of coldwave synthesisers in Hangman's Chair's sound, which would become an important sonic layer.[19] Kerrang! described Banlieue Triste (2018) as an album whose sound displays "a darkness that comes not from the wilderness that so often makes up doom, but a more gritty, claustrophobic urban setting".[21] In October 2021, Toulouse radio host Christophe Droit wrote that Hangman's Chair's has "found and refined" their own sonic identity over the years, "blended with a certain street credibility linked to the band's roots in hardcore".[59] In their respective analyses of 2018 and 2021, Hobson and Droit drew comparisons between Hangman's Chair and Type O Negative,[3][59] Life of Agony,[59] and the Sisters of Mercy.[59]

While the band blended various doom sounds to create an atmosphere on This Is Not Supposed To Be Positive, Hangman's Chair sounded like a different band on A Loner (2022) than in their early work, with gothic sounds closer to goth rock and coldwave at this stage. Their past as a "stoner band", however, had left some traces. A Loner features moments leaning towards shoegaze and gothic rock, with heavier passages, the melodies primarily serving "to sustain the gloom".[61] Olivier Ducruix of the French magazine Guitar Part wrote that Hangman's Chair "have gone even further" with A Loner, "as if to free yourselves a little more from the stoner/sludge/doom tags that have stuck to the band's skin since their beginnings".[34] For the recording of A Loner, Chanut used an old Marshall JMP head to add more upper mids, giving the sound a more defined character. He used his Rivera in the studio for a "really fat sound". For the guitar parts, the band wanted a "bright sound" with less gain and "to remove this flattering aspect" of the sub-bass characteristic of sludge or doom metal.[34]

Michel Valentin of Le Parisien wrote that 2025's Saddiction is "still rooted in metal but with numerous atmospheric passages, gothic, even 'cold wave'".[11] Chanut used a Bass VI to record the album, which he described as a cross between a guitar and a bass, bringing "much more consistency" to the sound, and had also changed tuning to boost creativity and approach the band's music "from another prism".[66] On Saddiction, the band continued in the same artistic direction initiated on A Loner.[52] Saddiction's sound encompasses dark metal, gothic, shoegaze, pop, alternative and post-rock.[52] In 2025, Metal Hammer's Matt Mills drew a parallel between their melodies and those of the Sisters of Mercy, but with guitar distortion and drums' "fierceness" turned up in Hangman's Chair.[62] "Post-punk is almost perfect ... It just needs bigger riffs", said Hangman's Chair.[48]

Voice

Toufouti did not consider himself a singer when recording 2010's Leaving Paris. At that time, he was mainly inspired by the "slightly broken, slightly gravelly" vocals over stoner and bluesy riffs, mentioning the band Down.[1] On Hope /// Dope /// Rope, his bandmates encouraged him to abandon that vocal style and sing, telling him, "think crooner", which led him to learn to "desaturate" his voice. Toufouti's voice retained a certain harshness on this album, though it was "clearer"; he continued the improvement sought over the next albums to reduce saturation as much as possible.[1]

In their review of Hangman's Chair's concert at DesertFest 2022 in the UK, Davey and Ruskell wrote that the band's music "culminate[s] in soaring riffs which serve to bolster the raw emotion of Cédric Toufouti's cleanly sung vocals".[63]

Band members

The lineups are adapted from the Hard Force website,[67] a former magazine published from 1986 to 2000.[68]

Final lineup
  • Cédric Toufouti – lead vocals, guitar (2008–2025)
  • Julien Chanut – guitar (2005–2025)
  • Clément Hanvic – bass (2008–2025)
  • Mehdi Birouk Thépegnier – drums (2005–2025)
Former members
  • Sid-Ahmed Azzouni – guitar (2005–2009; died 2010)
  • Kéo Nackphouminh – lead vocals (2005–2008)
  • Adrien Lederer – guitar (n/a–2010)
  • Bernard Quarante – bass (2005–2008)
Touring musicians
  • Christophe Marconato – bass (2011)

Discography

Studio albums
  • (A Lament for...) The Addicts (2007)
  • Leaving Paris (2010)
  • Hope /// Dope /// Rope (2012)
  • This Is Not Supposed To Be Positive (2015)
  • Banlieue Triste (2018)
  • A Loner (2022)
  • Saddiction (2025)
EPs
  • Bus de Nuit (2019)

Notes

  1. ^ Genre A:
  2. ^ Genre B:

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