Impure Wilhelmina unleashes new single and music video »Blanche réalité«; new album »Le sanglot« out May 22nd via Season Of Mist!
Geneva, Switzerland based post-hardcore/metal outfit Impure Wilhelmina premiere a music video for the second single »Blanche réalité« taken from their upcoming 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 share »Blanche réalité«, the cold heart of »Le sanglot«!
With »Blanche réalité«, Impure Wilhelmina offer the second glimpse into »Le sanglot«, their forthcoming album due for release via Season Of Mist. An official music video accompanies the single, drawing further into a body of work built entirely in French for the first time in the band’s history.
»Blanche réalité« (White Reality) maps a state of persistent, low-grade alienation: a person going through the motions of daily existence, disoriented at the centre of a world from which all warmth has been subtracted. The song finds its biographical root in a winter hike vocalist and guitarist Michael Schindl took, during which he nearly lost himself in the fog. That real, physical experience of erasure sits at the core of the track’s emotional logic, grounding an otherwise interior state in something concrete and felt.
Photo credit: Mehdi Benkler
The accompanying video extends the song’s territory rather than illustrating it. Shot entirely on location in fog-bound natural landscapes with no band performance, it follows a solitary figure moving through mist-consumed fields and bare woodland without ever arriving anywhere. The palette is almost entirely desaturated throughout, with animals functioning as the visual counterpart to the lyrics: present, unreachable, moving through the fog with a purposefulness the human figure lack. Only in the final seconds does colour return, a handful of amber leaves around water, an image that offers no clear resolution.
Watch the official video for »Blanche réalité« HERE.
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.
Pre-order & pre-save HERE.
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