Founded in southern Luxembourg in late 1996, LE GRAND GUIGNOL (back then acting under the name of Vindsval) release a first raw demo in 1997.

Soon they discover their passion for outré compositions, preserving the harshness of extreme metal, yet adding wickedly catchy tunes, symptomizing in deep-felt emotions and thus creating gloomy atmospheres, which the band refers to as "grotesque metal".

A first convicting piece of evidence was to be unearthed in 1999, embodied by the self-financed and -released debut-album "Imperium Grotesque", which was to be re-released in the following year by Skaldic Art Productions.

Years marked by live-performances and dedicated studio-work were to follow. Reconsidering both musical and lyrical concepts, coherence had Vindsval change their name into LE GRAND GUIGNOL at the dusk of 2006.

In 2007, Maddening Media prepares the stage for LE GRAND GUIGNOL, who hereby unleash upon the audience a chef d'oeuvre of yet unheard grandeur and grotesque sublimity, carrying the haunting name of "The Great Maddening".

On this album, LE GRAND GUIGNOL amalgamate firm metal tones with an opulent classical orchestration and genre-external elements to generate a yet unheard musical complexity which knows best how to grab the listeners' attention and put them under the band's addictive musical spell. Highest attention was put on the perfect elaboration of the multi-complex sound-design and production (e.g. Mastering by Grammy-Award-winner Darcy Proper at Galaxy Studios – Manowar, Lacuna Coil, Porcupine Tree etc.).