Impure Wilhelmina share third advance single »Train mort« from forthcoming full-length album »Le sanglot«; out May 22nd via Season Of Mist!

Geneva, Switzerland based post-hardcore/metal collective Impure Wilhelmina drops new single and music video »Train mort« taken from their upcoming full-length album, »Le sanglot«, set to release on May 22nd, 2026 via Season Of Mist.

Tracklist:
01. Électricité noire
02. Cent mille plaies
03. Abîme
04. Larmes de joie
05. Dévoreur d’étoiles
06. Train mort
07. Frelon ivre
08. Blanche réalité
09. Demain j’abandonne
10. À jamais radieuse

Courtesy of Season Of Mist:

Impure Wilhelmina, the Swiss post-metal and progressive dark rock quartet, have shared »Train mort«, the third advance single from their forthcoming album »Le sanglot«, due May 22nd on Season Of Mist. The track is accompanied by an official visualizer and marks the album’s most confrontational moment, arriving ahead of the full ten-track release.

»Train mort« opens on an oppressive, industrially-tinged guitar riff that builds slowly before giving way to a moment of desperate stillness, only for the weight to return, head-on, in the final passage. Where the two preceding singles established the melodic and atmospheric range of »Le sanglot«, this track cuts to something rawer. The lyrics are carried by Michael Schindl’s alternating screamed and whispered vocals, describing a man pushed past the point of return, and observe with cold precision the violence that festers at the far end of endurance. The track is the album’s most abrasive and makes no concessions.

Photo credit: Mehdi Benkler

»Train mort« features French artist Mütterlein (Marion Leclercq), whose howls of despair are woven throughout the track. The collaboration, the first in Impure Wilhelmina’s history, arose from a natural affinity between Mütterlein’s tormented artistic universe and the atmosphere of the song. She co-wrote the track and, in the band’s own framing, darkened the darkness further.

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Born in Geneva’s alternative underground in 1996, Impure Wilhelmina has forged a singular path between metal and progressive dark rock, marked by density, melody, and emotional restraint. After three decades of evolution and renewal, the quartet now enters a new chapter with »Le sanglot«, their most radical, yet organic, transformation to date.

Entirely written and sung in French, »Le sanglot« sharpens the band’s vision into something more direct, more cutting, and more exposed. The album is conceived as a sob in sound, the musical equivalent of human tears. Its lyrics observe a fractured world with surgical coldness, portraying ugliness, mediocrity, and quiet violence, yet never abandoning the possibility of grace. From the cathartic surge of »Électricité noire« to the fragile radiance of »À jamais radieuse«, darkness and light circulate in constant tension. The record refines Impure Wilhelmina’s blend of progressive, dark, and melodic rock metal, driven by magnetic vocals and deeply textured arrangements. The arrival of guitarist Edouard Nicod broadens the sonic architecture, while the collaboration with Marion Leclercq (Mütterlein) on »Train mort« pushes the album into its most abrasive terrain.

»Le sanglot« will be released on May 22nd, 2026 via Season Of Mist. It is the band’s first record written and sung entirely in French, and the first to feature guitarist Edouard Nicod. The album was recorded and mixed by Yvan Bing at Kitchen Studio, Geneva, and mastered by Magnus Lindberg at Redmount Studio, Stockholm.

Impure Wilhelmina is:
Michael Schindl – Vocals, Guitar
Mario Togni – Drums
Sébastien Dutruel – Bass
Edouard Nicod – Guitar

Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well