Biography
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Years Active
2002 – 2006 (4 years)
Mihai Edrisch was born in early 2002 when four people from Lyon, France met. They rip out an intense chaotic screamo hardcore style with dark feelings rooted in the iconic French screamo tradition. Sometimes rapid and unpredictable, and sometimes loud and aerial, their music always has a desperate or melancholic presence.
During their shows, Mihai Edrisch perform in almost total darkness, with only a few red lights to allow people to see moving shadows (a practice Celeste perpetuated). After playing numerous shows with bands like Daïtro, Simfela and Overmars in 2002, they did an Eastern European Tour in July 2003.
The band has two albums to their name, the first, "L'un Sans L'autre", was released on Alchimia in Europe and on Godschild in the US, Japan, and China. The second, "Un Jour Sans Lendemain", was released on Pure Pain Sugar.
Mihai's riffing style was very dissonant in nature with many angular melodies intertwined alike with melancholic clean guitar sections. They are exorbitantly intensive whilst not even being relatively "emoviolence". They could very well be described as being "psychological emoviolence terror".
Johan's vocals were particularly very emotional and heartfelt, exclusively sung in French, with a strong accent that punctuated every word. He abandoned this approach when he started singing for Celeste, in favour of a more blackened rasp.
Footage of their last show finds them playing some unknown songs that were going to be part of their third record that never came to fruition, they probably ended up becoming Celeste songs. Being a post-Mihai project, their debut EP still had many Mihai elements that were subsequently abandoned in favour of a new sound. But no other screamo band; old, new, French or otherwise, has ever displayed the Mihai sound. Johan has since then expressed he wished this new band had kept exploring this type of songwriting approach Mihai possessed.
Band members: Johan, Remi, Florian, Benoit, Guillaume
Mihai Edrisch broke up in late 2005, although some of their members continued to play in other bands, such as Daïtro and as mentioned, Celeste.
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