Year Of No Light (often abbreviated as
YONL) is a French post-metal band from
Bordeaux formed in 2001. For their début album,
Nord, YONL drew influence from several genres, including
post-rock,
sludge, somber
psychedelics and depressive atmospheric
shoegaze. The second album,
Ausserwelt, was not released until 2010 after a significant line-up change in 2008 which established the band as an
instrumental sextet, including two drummers and three guitarists. Ausserwelt saw the band's sound develop in the direction of
black metal and
doom metal while retaining a progressive, post rock feel.