Interviews About Albums: Sainte Obyana Du Froid - The Purest Ending (2025)

In this new interview, we sat down with the French Atmospheric Black Metal band, Sainte Obyana Du Froid, to ask questions about their album "The Purest Ending". 

1. What can you say about The Purest Ending?

The Purest Ending is the first album of the SAINTE OBYANA DU FROID project that I have with Obyana. It is rather cold atmospheric black metal where violence is not the most important element. It is quite far from the current black metal scene, where there is a kind of escalation in violence, speed, and often a redundancy of riffs, sounds, artwork, and atmospheres. With The Purest Ending, I tried to bring something different from what I had done with my other projects, with luminous moments where the music is atmospheric, and much more violent moments with black metal that is, at first glance, fairly classic, but wrapped in a mystical aura that serves the concept. There is no question here of hatred toward anyone, but rather of an elevation of the soul, a transcendence of being in contact with the cold of a snowy, icy winter.ù

2. What is the meaning of the album name?

The ending is, of course, Obyana’s death, or even its opposite, the fact of being in harmony with winter. It is almost more her ultimate goal, a beginning. The end is always the beginning of something else. Maybe it is, in fact, only the beginning of what she can feel? The purest aspect is the fact that she becomes one with winter; she finds the climax of her emotions there when she abandons herself to nature. It is her strongest wish, but its fulfillment is also a lie.

3. Which one is the composer of The Purest Ending?

It’s me. I compose all the tracks and write all the lyrics. Obyana provides the vocals, but I decide everything. I tell her how to sing, what I expect from her, and her work is perfect; it is in total harmony with the music and with what I wanted to bring out from this screamed female voice. I hesitated a bit at first about who would be the voice, but from the very first try, I understood that I had not made a mistake. What she offers is full of emotion, at the same time extremely depressing and violent.

4. If you had to pick one song, which one would you pick?

The Purest Ending. It is the end of the project, it is also the last track composed for SODF, and I think it contains everything this album has to offer: the atmospheric side, the black metal, the mystical aspect, and this ending that I love (perhaps the best black metal piece I have done so far). There are many textures; the track takes a long time to really start and symbolizes the fog of her mind, the hesitation that Obyana has regarding what she wants and what she does.

5. Is there a special message in The Purest Ending? If there is what it is?

No, there is clearly no hidden or special message. If you read the lyrics, you should understand what it is about.

6. Are there some lyrics that you'd love to share?

In the booklet, there is this small text between quotation marks that is quite special to me on the last track:

"the snow falls on her

she is waiting for a sign

his body is bruised

exhausted"

It is the only part of the lyrics where it is not Obyana who speaks. The whole album is written in the first person, and there is this text that I was supposed to sing/scream myself, but I decided to leave Obyana alone on the entire album. I felt that it served the concept better to leave her completely alone. But I wanted to keep this part in the booklet, like a testimony, an explanation of what one could see of her.

7. Which inspirations have been important for The Purest Ending? Like musically or friends, family, someone you'd love to thank especially?

Color. White inspired me, even if it gradually became gray. There is even a touch of dirty yellow in the album, a bit of very pale blue like an arctic landscape toward the end of the album, but the whole thing remains very coherent, with all these emotions colliding throughout the record. Color has an incredible importance in my eyes, in the way I compose or listen to music. I have already had tracks that I wanted to be white or another color, which I completely erased because once finished, I felt a different color than what I had intended at the beginning of the composition. All of this is extremely important to me.

8. Something to add?

Thanks for the interview.