Among the new wave of French industrial projects, few burn with the same intensity as Moaan Exis. Formed by vocalist and programmer Mathieu Caudron and drummer Xavier Guionie, the duo has built a reputation for transforming industrial noise into something simultaneously primal and cinematic. Their music balances mechanical precision with a sense of ritual urgency, as if each track were less a composition than a convulsion — an act of catharsis pressed into rhythm and distortion. Their breakthrough album Necessary Violences was described as “a sound object burning melancholy with the violence of a catastrophe,” a work that channels raw emotion into relentless sonic assault. Critics praised its ability to be both savage and hypnotic, welding punishing bass with spectral atmospheres. That trajectory only deepened with Postmodern Therapy, a record hailed as “savage, psychotropic, and sublime in its own way,” where walls of bass and searing percussion created a trance-like intensity that felt as much ritual as performance. Moaan Exis thrives in collaboration as well. Their work with MORIS BLAK on State Rejects / Moments of Dissent delivered a brutal collision of cyberpunk noise and industrial chaos, a “battle of extremes” that pushed both projects into new terrain. Yet it is on stage that the duo’s vision comes fully alive. Surging rhythms and abrasive textures lock audiences into a visceral communion, as if the music itself were conducting a collective rite. For Audiotrauma Fest 2025, Moaan Exis arrives at full force, armed with a reputation for shows that leave no one untouched. Their sound is an act of destruction and reconstruction — fury distilled into trance, chaos sculpted into form. In their hands, noise becomes something elemental, a fire both devastating and purifying.