French Metal

French band I know:

That Old Black Magic (death, good)
Drowning (death)
Imperial Sodomy (poetry)
Taliandörögd (sympho black)
Korum (death/hardcore)
Hegemon (I bought that very shit by mistake)

And 2 great bands, they're Swiss-French in fact
Nostromo (hardcore/grind)
Unfold (Emotional hardcore)
 
ok, I'm french so here we go ;)

Heavy Metal (old and nearly all disbanded) :
Killers (cult Speed Metal since 1984, their new album is out, kinda thrashy)
ADX (heavy/speed, great)
Sortilège (my fave french band, awesome singer and writing skills!)
Blasphème (very provocative lyrics eheh)
Satan Jokers (strange band, disco metal sometimes on the 2nd LP lol!)
High Power
Demon Eyes
Titan
Warning (great hard/heavy)
and thousands more...

Heavy Metal (new blood) :
Malédiction (mix between ADX and Sortilege)
Dyslesia (mix between Helloween and Judas Priest)
Overstep (sung in 3 different languages)
Lonewolf (ala Running Wild)
Manigance (excellent, Pretty Maids / Sortilège / Dream Theatre mix)
Phenix (progressive heavy metal, Maiden / Queensryche mix)

Thrash / Death :
Massacra (cult death metal)
Loudblast (now reunited)
Agressor
No Return (killer live band!)
Blackness (thrash)
and many more...

Black/etc. :
you know more about this than me :)
(even if I've seen Anorexia live a few months ago)

and I also like Misanthrope a lot, very original band! :headbang:
but I don't really like Adagio...