​Guillaume Barreau-Decherf

The 43-year-old journalist and music critic for ‘Les Inrocks’ magazine was among the victims of the terrorist attacks at Bataclan in Paris. The French newspaper Libération, where the journalist , aka Guillaume B. Decherf and fan of metal music began his career in 1999, paid him a moving tribute,. He worked as Libé special correspondent in Chicago in 2000 and contributed to Rolling Stone and Metro. He then joined Hard Rock Mag as editor-in-chief before moving to Inrocks in 2008, where his main speciality was Hard Rock. His last publication of 28 October 2015 was on Zipper Down, the latest CD of Eagles of Death Metal group in which he announced their Paris concert at the Bataclan.

Source: Libération

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