{ "id": "ep1wcxzphd", "slug": "egregore-ep1wcxzphd", "title": "Égrégore", "updated": "2026-10-25", "topic_path": [ { "id": "culture", "label": "Arts and culture", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture" }, { "id": "culture.music", "label": "Music", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.music" }, { "id": "culture.music.works", "label": "Musical works and recordings", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.music.works" }, { "id": "culture.music.works.recordings", "label": "Albums and recorded releases", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.music.works.recordings" }, { "id": "culture.music.works.recordings.studio_albums", "label": "Studio albums", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.music.works.recordings.studio_albums" }, { "id": "culture.music.works.recordings.studio_albums.pop-albums", "label": "Pop albums", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.music.works.recordings.studio_albums.pop-albums" }, { "id": "culture.music.works.recordings.studio_albums.pop-albums.2020s-albums", "label": "2020s albums", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.music.works.recordings.studio_albums.pop-albums.2020s-albums" } ], "geo": [ { "id": "geo.weu.t1800.culture.music.works", "label": "Western Europe · 1800 to 1945: Musical works and recordings", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.weu.t1800.culture.music.works", "path": [ { "id": "geo.weu", "label": "Western Europe", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.weu" }, { "id": "geo.weu.t1800", "label": "Western Europe · 1800 to 1945", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.weu.t1800" }, { "id": "geo.weu.t1800.culture", "label": "Arts and culture", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.weu.t1800.culture" }, { "id": "geo.weu.t1800.culture.music", "label": "Music", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.weu.t1800.culture.music" }, { "id": "geo.weu.t1800.culture.music.works", "label": "Musical works and recordings", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.weu.t1800.culture.music.works" } ] } ], "excerpt": "Égrégore (egregore) is an esoteric term for a group spirit formed from collective minds. Known through Mylène Farmer's 2026 album Égrégore, several metal bands named Egregore, and Jean Antonin Billard's book on the automatistes.", "snippet": "Égrégore (egregore) is an esoteric term for a group spirit formed from collective minds. Known through Mylène Farmer's 2026 album Égrégore, several metal bands named Egregore, and Jean Antonin Billard's book on the automatistes.", "node": "culture.music.works.recordings.studio_albums.pop-albums.2020s-albums", "markdown": "# Égrégore\n\n**Égrégore** (French spelling of *egregore*) is a term used in esotericism for a group spirit, a psychic entity said to manifest from the collective minds of people linked in pursuit of a common goal[1](https://ninecircles.co/2026/03/17/review-egregore-it-echoes-in-the-wild/) • [2](https://www.mylene.net/mylene/mylene-farmer-egregore.php). The word has entered wider circulation through album titles in French pop and underground metal, a book on the Quebec automatist movement, and the singer [Mylène Farmer](https://www.edgepedia.org/mylene-farmer), who named it as her favorite word.\n\n| Key fact | Detail |\n|---|---|\n| Meaning | In certain strains of esotericism, a psychic entity that manifests from the collective minds of a group[1](https://ninecircles.co/2026/03/17/review-egregore-it-echoes-in-the-wild/) |\n| Definition as quoted | \"Un terme essentiellement utilisé en ésotérisme qui désigne un esprit de groupe qui subirait l'influence de désirs communs de personnes liées dans la poursuite d'un même objectif\"[2](https://www.mylene.net/mylene/mylene-farmer-egregore.php) |\n| Best-known musical use | *Égrégore*, 13th studio album by Mylène Farmer, released 30 October 2026[2](https://www.mylene.net/mylene/mylene-farmer-egregore.php) |\n| Metal use | Canadian blackened death metal band Egregore, with albums *The Word of His Law* (2022) and *It Echoes in the Wild* (2026) on 20 Buck Spin[3](https://distortedsoundmag.com/album-review-the-word-of-his-law-egregore/) • [4](https://wonderboxmetal.com/2026/03/18/egregore-it-echoes-in-the-wild-review/) |\n| Book | *Égrégore* by Jean Antonin Billard (Du Passage, 342 pages), a reference work on the Quebec automatistes[5](https://revue.leslibraires.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/0017__Lib86.pdf) |\n\n## Meaning in esotericism\n\nThe word designates a collective thought-form. One metal review glosses it as \"a concept by which a psychic entity manifests from the collective minds of a group\"[1](https://ninecircles.co/2026/03/17/review-egregore-it-echoes-in-the-wild/). The definition the novelist Tatiana de Rosnay transcribed after asking Mylène Farmer for her favorite word runs along the same lines: a term used essentially in esotericism for a group spirit subject to the influence of the shared desires of people bound together in pursuit of the same objective[2](https://www.mylene.net/mylene/mylene-farmer-egregore.php). Farmer explained her attraction to the word by \"la notion vibratoire de la communion\", the vibratory notion of communion[2](https://www.mylene.net/mylene/mylene-farmer-egregore.php).\n\n## Mylène Farmer's album Égrégore\n\nThe most prominent recent use of the word is Égrégore, the thirteenth studio album by the French singer Mylène Farmer, released on 30 October 2026, four years after *L'Emprise* (2022)[2](https://www.mylene.net/mylene/mylene-farmer-egregore.php). The album was announced on 24 June 2026 with the cover photo and title, and it is described as an \"album événement\" produced in part by DJ Lewis[2](https://www.mylene.net/mylene/mylene-farmer-egregore.php) • [6](https://www.fnac.com/o11502792/EGREGORE/w-4).\n\nThe rollout was unusually elaborate. The lead single \"C'est à qui le tour\", produced by DJ Lewis, appeared on 29 May 2026, with a video directed by [Julia Ducournau](https://www.edgepedia.org/julia-ducournau); the second single \"Des lols et des quoi\" followed on 11 September with a video by Thierry and Didier Poiraud[2](https://www.mylene.net/mylene/mylene-farmer-egregore.php). On 27 October 2026, three days before the record, cinemas in France, Belgium, and Switzerland screened *Égrégore - L'Avant-première*, a 65-minute film directed by François Hanss that put the new album \"en images\", with previews in 39 IMAX theaters[2](https://www.mylene.net/mylene/mylene-farmer-egregore.php).\n\nThe album runs 45 minutes across 13 tracks[2](https://www.mylene.net/mylene/mylene-farmer-egregore.php). DJ Lewis co-wrote most of the material, with collaborators including Ana Zimmer, Antoine Chatenet, and Ragio; [DJ Snake](https://www.edgepedia.org/dj-snake) features on two tracks, \"Combien pour la nuit\" and \"Sans amarres\", and Moby composed two, \"Recréer un jour\" and \"Plus d'écho\"[7](https://www.mylene.net/mylene/mylene-farmer-egregore-tracklist.php). The tracklist also includes \"Confession\", the song Farmer performed at the opening ceremony of the 2025 Cannes Film Festival as a tribute to [David Lynch](https://www.edgepedia.org/david-lynch)[2](https://www.mylene.net/mylene/mylene-farmer-egregore.php). Physical editions span standard and collector CDs, a double vinyl, a crystal vinyl, and an orange vinyl exclusive to Fnac[6](https://www.fnac.com/o11502792/EGREGORE/w-4).\n\n## Egregore in metal\n\nSeveral extreme metal acts have taken the word as a name or title, drawn to its occult connotations.\n\n**Egregore (Canada).** A Canadian blackened death metal band featuring current and former members of [Mitochondrion](https://www.edgepedia.org/mitochondrion), Auroch, and Funeral Circle released its debut album, and first recording, *The Word of His Law*, on 20 Buck Spin in 2022[3](https://distortedsoundmag.com/album-review-the-word-of-his-law-egregore/) • [4](https://wonderboxmetal.com/2026/03/18/egregore-it-echoes-in-the-wild-review/). The sophomore album *It Echoes in the Wild* followed on 20 March 2026, ten songs in about 48 minutes, described as old-school death metal with a blackened flavor and occasional thrash influences[4](https://wonderboxmetal.com/2026/03/18/egregore-it-echoes-in-the-wild-review/) • [8](https://music.apple.com/us/artist/egregore/1610814415). Reviewers place the band near The Chasm, Negative Plane, and Mortuary Drape, with frenetic drumming from Essentia Collapse, the pseudonym of Shawn Haché[1](https://ninecircles.co/2026/03/17/review-egregore-it-echoes-in-the-wild/).\n\n**Other namesakes.** A separate grindcore band called Egregore issued *Synchronistic Delusions* on Sentient Ruin Laboratories on 1 September 2023, a 33-minute record mixing d-beat, death metal, and Carcass-style melodies[9](https://ninecircles.co/2023/08/31/album-review-egregore-synchronistic-delusions/). The French atmospheric black metal project Bâ'a titled its second album *Egrégore* (2022), six tracks in about 43 minutes built on hermetic polarity and the four horsemen of the apocalypse[10](https://mystificationzine.com/2022/03/22/baa-egregore-2022-review/). The [Pittsburgh](https://www.edgepedia.org/pittsburgh) technical death metal band Victims of Contagion released an album called *Egregore* in 2026, and the [Minneapolis](https://www.edgepedia.org/minneapolis) progressive sludge band Phase Meridian released its sophomore album *Egregore* on 28 May 2026[11](https://pitstopmetal.com/en/reviews/victims-of-contagion-egregore-album-review-technical-death-metal) • [12](https://phasemeridian.bandcamp.com/album/egregore).\n\n## In literature\n\nThe word also titles a substantial work of Quebec cultural history: *Égrégore* by Jean Antonin Billard, published by Du Passage at 342 pages, described as the most complete work on the automatistes, a mine of information, images, and reproductions of the group's journals[5](https://revue.leslibraires.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/0017__Lib86.pdf).\n\n## References\n\n1. [Review: Egregore – It Echoes in the Wild, Nine Circles (March 17, 2026)](https://ninecircles.co/2026/03/17/review-egregore-it-echoes-in-the-wild/)\n2. [Mylène Farmer – Album Égrégore, Mylene.Net](https://www.mylene.net/mylene/mylene-farmer-egregore.php)\n3. [Album Review: The Word Of His Law – Egregore, Distorted Sound Magazine (April 16, 2022)](https://distortedsoundmag.com/album-review-the-word-of-his-law-egregore/)\n4. [Egregore – It Echoes in the Wild (Review), Wonderbox Metal (March 18, 2026)](https://wonderboxmetal.com/2026/03/18/egregore-it-echoes-in-the-wild-review/)\n5. [Les choix de la rédaction, Les Libraires no. 86](https://revue.leslibraires.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/0017__Lib86.pdf)\n6. [ÉGRÉGORE, Variété Française, Fnac](https://www.fnac.com/o11502792/EGREGORE/w-4)\n7. [Mylène Farmer – Égrégore – Tracklist, Mylene.Net](https://www.mylene.net/mylene/mylene-farmer-egregore-tracklist.php)\n8. [Egregore, Apple Music](https://music.apple.com/us/artist/egregore/1610814415)\n9. [Album Review: Egregore — Synchronistic Delusions, Nine Circles (August 31, 2023)](https://ninecircles.co/2023/08/31/album-review-egregore-synchronistic-delusions/)\n10. [BÂ'A – Egrégore (2022) | Review, Mystification Zine (March 22, 2022)](https://mystificationzine.com/2022/03/22/baa-egregore-2022-review/)\n11. [Victims of Contagion – Egregore Album Review, Pitstop Metal (October 2, 2026)](https://pitstopmetal.com/en/reviews/victims-of-contagion-egregore-album-review-technical-death-metal)\n12. 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