The thought of combining rave and house music with stompy glamminess, chainsaw-whirring guitars and the gut-dropping drama of black metal, would have seemed like an unreachable oxymoron years ago.

But for France's Black Strobe, the recipe is a seamless and wholesome one. The four piece's full-flow debut 'Burn Your Own Church' is like a pill-popping Nine Inch Nails being brutally crossbred with Depeche Mode at an all-night rave party for closet goths. And to make the melee more dramatically spectacular, they even cover songs from rockabilly eccentric Bo Diddley! Bizarre magazine caught up with giant moustachioed frontman and electronics wizard Arnaud Rebotini to discuss the punchy new opus...

You’ve called the album Burn Your Own Church.