Messa – Pilgrim

MESSA’s rising trajectory hits the stratosphere on their immense new album “Close”. Soaring up out of the Italian Doom Rock underground in 2014, MESSA have been rapidly garnering a frenzied throng of devotees, in thrall to their monumental and broad-ranging sound craft. Releasing two widely celebrated cult records, the latest of which “Feast For Water” in 2018 was a critical breakthrough success, with Rolling Stone calling the whole album “captivating, wringing maximum drama out of its savvy stylistic clash,” Messa have had everyone on tenterhooks, waiting for what was next.

New album “Close” draws us further into MESSA’s spellbinding textures and immersive dynamics. Described as “Stevie Nicks fronting Black Sabbath,” singer Sara’s colossal voice omnipotently carries the listener on an emotional rollercoaster ride where the sonic cauldron of Iommi guitars gives way to Arabian oudh and progressive solos in a masterful style-clash that well befits Messa’s incendiary reputation.

The hushed Fender Rhodes piano intro on opener “Suspended,” picks up where Messa left off on their previous album “Feast For Water” but then collapses gloriously into Jazz guitar and widescreen impassioned crushing riffs, lighting our way for the odyssey ahead. The scene is set magnificently for the journey that “Close” expertly takes the listener on, with MESSA’s obvious care and passion for the album as a pilgrimage of sonic experience. Heavyweight tracks like “If You Want Her To Be Taken” or “0=2” are modern Doom Rock classics that expertly upgrade and leave the genre reeling in their wake. “Pilgrim” and “Orphalese” are woven with tapestries of Mediterranean sounds where oudh and eastern chord phrasings expand Messa’s cinematic palette with a panache that is all their own. Atmospheric and grandiose belters like “Rubedo” and “Dark Horse” build into an almost limitless climax of discord and harmony where blast beats and saxophones descend into a thrilling cacophony that’s a masterclass in artful cutting edge Doom.

Referencing bands like DEAD CAN DANCE, SWANS and OM, MESSA have created an album where song, experience and atmosphere are focused into a crystalline modus where high art flawlessly embraces good old fashioned riff-worship. Transcending the occult and noir-tinted atmospheres of their past works, “Close” confidently weaves Messa’s multifarious influences into a singular breath-taking sound that leaves the listener enthralled. Perfection or something extremely close, MESSA’s “Close” is not just a Metal record, but it’s definitely one of the best things to break out of the confines of Metal in a long time.

Nakh: a ritual dance performed by women along the Algerian/Tunisian border. It features the swaying of the dancer’s head and thrashing of the hair. An altered state of consciousness is induced by the repetitive yet simple movements performed during the dance.

"Close" was recorded between April and May 2021 at Inside Outside Studio in Volpago del Montello (TV). Vocals recorded at La Distilleria in Bassano del Grappa (TV). Recorded and mixed by Maurizio ‘Icio’ Baggio. Mastered by Maurizio ‘Icio’ Baggio and Matt Bordin.

Headbang: slang to nod one’s head violently to the beat of loud rock music.

Sara: Vocals, Lyrics, Percussions
Marco: Bass, 8 Strings Bass, Acoustic Guitar, Vocals, Synth, Dulcimer
Alberto: Guitar, Slide Guitar, 12 Strings Guitar, Oud, Mandolin,
Vocals, Moog Bass, Rhodes Piano, Synth, Percussions
Rocco: Drums, Percussions, Screams

Today's tune "Pilgrim", MESSA’s first single from new album "Close", released in March 2022 by Svart Records.



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New Candys - Vyvyd

Monday, new week, time to introduce "Record Of The Week".

"Vyvyd" is the fourth and latest album by the Italian alternative rockers NEW CANDYS, it was released on 4 June 2021 via Little Cloud Records. NEW CANDYS was formed in Venice in 2008. "Vyvyd" has its own mythology where they played with religious, pagan, and archetypal symbols, which have been distorted through their own lens. If you have to sum up the album in one concept it would be the contradiction of light: God/good is often represented with a bright glow, whilst Lucifer, the personification of evil, means light-bearer. They have been inspired by the visionary cinema of Kenneth Anger and Alejandro Jodorowsky among others. "Vyvyd" is a very interesting release, where the music oscillates between some old-school psych-rock, 60's pop with vibes of shoegaze, and indie rock. Catchy melodies with a great vibe, but there is a shimmer of sad loneliness, with a happy shell. Hard to explain but that's the feeling I get when spinning this, nothing bad at all as my thoughts go into this pandemic and I guess that infects what they create whether they want to or not. But hey, this is freaking good. Give it a spin and you get my drift. It's a bit different but it works so well. Take the electro riff and the pummeling drumming of opener "Twin Mime" that grabs you by the neck into their world with fuzzy sonics and glorious chorus. Followed by heavy riffing and thunderous drumming in "Zyko". Then we change the direction to a softer and smoother ride in "Factice", quickly hear PRIMAL SCREAM echoing in the background. Nice song with good drive. "Begin Again" is a trippier number and "Evil Evil" opens the gate for some electro fuzz, amazing tune. "Helluva Zoo" is a guitar-driven rocker until it's time for "The Clockmaker", the more compact riffing and drumming change the direction again and in "Q&K" they have invited Jancy Buffington (MØAA) to add some of her dreamy vocals on the track and wow! Her voice really boosts the tune. The album closes up with "Snake Eat Snake", a drumming beat and a softer vocal line that almost masses out the record. This is really great work from these Italians, I do Highly recommend "Vyvyd" for anyone of likes marvelous and well-creating melodies and has their heart close to psych, then this babe will follow you.

Arranged, performed and produced by Fernando Nuti (vocals, guitars, keys), Andrea Volpato (guitars, synthesizer, backing vocals), Alessandro Boschiero (bass) & Dario Lucchesi (drums, percussion). Music and words by Fernando Nuti. Recorded and mixed by Andrea Volpato at Fox Studio (Venezia). Additional mixing by Tommaso Colliva at Laboratorio Testone (Milano). Mastered by Giovanni Versari at La Maestà (Cesena). Guest vocals on “Q&K” by Jancy Buffington (MØAA). Additional recording on “Snake Eat Snake” by Pierluigi Ballarin at Unnecessary Recordings (Bologna). Additional arrangement on “Helluva Zoo” by Diego Menegaldo. Artwork by Fernando Nuti & Laura Gamba (Lucy Færy).

Today's tune "Twin Mime" is taken from "Vyvyd", enjoy!



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Black Elephant - Seven Swords

Monday, a new week and it's time for another "Record Of The Week".

The planets have aligned, and space itself has opened up to grace us with the heavy roll of BLACK ELEPHANT's "Seven Swords".

The Italian four-piece fuzzmongers mark 10 years of cooperative corporeal existence in 2020 and last checked in from their native Savona in Summer 2018 with the aptly-titled "Cosmic Blues", read about it here! and two years and an entire lifetime later they're back with the second collection of classic-minded heavy groovers, picking the best the '70s, '90s and '10s had to offer in riffery and melding spacey blowouts with desert-hued hooks.

"Seven Swords" is a well made album, the production is really nice, perfectly of the fatness is the bass line and the drums and the fuzziness and a glorious scream in the guitars makes the music very enjoable.

From the solid album opener "Berta’s Flame" that takes your hand with a firm grip, throws you into a cosmic universe that you float around in and feel the rythms tickles your body and you almost lose consciousness until "The Last March Of Yokozuna" takes over with it's gentle guitar which caresses your senses so incredibly beautifully. The heaviness is back when it's time to gear up in "Yayoi Kusama", fuzzy distorted guitar and the Italian vocals sets a great touch on this number. It's wandering further on half pace in "Mihara" with some attacks of melodic and stylish guitars. "Red Sun And Blues Sun" increases the pace a few steps. The blusey rocker "Seppuku" gives the record another face, cool. The near-nine-minute album closer "Govinda" ends this thirty four minutes cosmic trip. "Seven Swords" is a great fuzzy psychedelic rock album that suits all Heavy rockers out there.

Sum: Ready for some cosmic fuzz, then "Seven Swords" it is entirely in your home area.

"Seven Swords" was released August 21, 2020 on Small Stone Records. Recorded and mixed by Giulio Farinelli. Recorded at Green Fog Studio, Genoa, Italy. Mastered by Chris Goosman at Baseline Audio Labs, Ann Arbor, MI. Cover and Design by Robin Gnista.

BLACK ELEPHANT is:

Alessio Caravelli: guitar and vocals

Massimiliano Giacosa: guitar

Marcello Destefanis: bass

Simone Brunzu: drums 

Today's tune "Berta's Flame" is taken from "Seven Swords", enjoy!



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Elli De Mon - Vampire Blues

From Vicenza, Italy comes Elli de Mon, a onewomanband that play guitars, bass drum, snare drum, rattles, saturated sounds and Indian psychedelia. Drawing heavily on the shamanic tradition of distant enchanters Bessie Smith, Fred McDowell and Son House, Elli fights her demons with the instrument most congenial to her: music. A new blues, made of wild slides and contaminated by punk influences (Elli also played in Almandino Quite Deluxe), and by Indian music, Elli's great love.

She released her debut 7", "Leave This Town" in 2013. Followed by an self titled album 2014 and a signing with CORPOC and Otis Recordings. Since then she have been a busy, she has been playing everywhere, sharing the stage with artists such as The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, AFTERHOURS, REVEREND BEATMAN, THE MONSTERS, Molly Gene onewoamanband, Big John Bates, Chuck Ragan, Larry and His Flask, Cedric Burnside, Bror Gunnar Jansson, Carmen Consoli along with a numerous festivals. In 2015 it was time to release album "II" on Pitshark Records. In 2016 the split record "VS" with Diego Deadman Potron was released. In 2017 came the mini album "Blues tapes: the indian sessions". "Songs Of Mercy And Desire" was released in 2018. And now in 2020 got the split EP with Daily Thompson "Elli De Mon VS Daily Thompson" where we find today's tune "Vampire Blues". The Video is by FrameByFrame Studio Venezia, directed by Solenn Le Marchand, animated by Alberto Stevanato, Francesca Ferrario and Solenn Le Marchand, model making by Alberto Stevanato.

Enjoy!



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Void Of Sleep - Unfair Judgement

Italian progressive sludge rockers VOID OF SLEEP did release their new album "Metaphora" on March 27th via Aural Music. Forged in Ravenna, Italy, in 2010, VOID OF SLEEP – conjure a cosmic amalgam of stoned-out, progressive sludge rock where epic rhythms melt into bottom-heavy doom breakdowns, complex time signatures, and psychedelia.

In support of the album, they have released an amazing new video for "Unfair Judgement", see and hear it below. The video is a complex, and emotional story. The video stars Starring Edo Tagliavini and Fausto Fori, was filmed by Gerardo Lamattina & cinematography by Gerardo Lamattina Film, with editing by Edo Talgiavini. It was written and directed by Edo Tagliavini and Gerardo Lamattina.

VOID OF SLEEP is:

Allo - Drums and percussions

Burdo - Vox and Guitars

Andrea - Bass

Gale - Guitars and Chorus

Momo - Synths and Keyboards

"History, like injustices, always repeats itself…"

Enjoy today's tune!



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Veuve - Death Of The Cosmonaut

VEUVE is a heavy psych stoner rock tro based in Pordenone, Italy. Seventies fashioned fuzzy riffs, krauty desert drifts and liquid delay trails could sum up the bands music. They formed 2014 and since then 3 records have been released, the self-produced EP (February 2015), a full-lenght album "Yard" (via The Smoking Goat Records & Acid Cosmonaut Records, February 2016) and the latest album "Fathom" (May 31, 2019) via Argonauta Records.

VEUVE are:

Riccardo Quattrin - bass & vocals

Stefano Crovato - guitar

Andrea Carlin - drums

Today's tune "Death Of The Cosmonaut" taken from the album "Fathom", release on May 31st, 2019



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Black Elephant - Cosmic Soul

One would be hard-pressed to come up with a better descriptor for the Italian, BLACK ELEPHANTs "Cosmic Blues" than the title of their third album itself.

BLACK ELEPHANT is a four-piece rock band from Savona, Italy that has conjured ghosts of '70s heavy psychedelic rock to blues and masterful '90s riff-mongering southern sludge to offer a brew both potent and thoroughly modern.

BLACK ELEPHANT is comprised of lead vocalist/lead guitarist Alessio Caravelli, rhythm guitarist Massimiliano Giacosa, bassist Marcello Destefanis, and drummer Simone Brunzu.

Today's tune is the title track from "Cosmic Blues", the album is recorded and mixed by Giulio Farinelli. Recorded at Green Fog Studio, Genoa, Italy. Mixed by Giulio Farinelli at Everybody On The Shore studio, Milan, Italy. Mastered by Maurizio Giannotti at New Mastering Studio, Milan, Italy. Cover and Design by Robin Gnista. Published by Small Stone Records (ASCAP).



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Caronte - Abraxas

CARONTE is an heavy acid doom metal band hailing from Parma, Italy, formed in the 2010. CARONTE tunes are inspired by drugs, alcohol abuse, death, black masses, sex, esoterism ,mysticism and shamanism.

They have unleashes an impressive serving of quality doom/stoner metal.

The band have already made six works. 2011 - "Ghost Owl", 2012 - "Ascension", 2013 - "Split Caronte", 2014 - "Church of Shamanic Goetia", 2016 - "Codex Babalon" and 2017 – "Yoni"

The good feedbacks received have permitted at the band to play all over the Europe, share the stage with bands like ELECTRIC WIZARD, BLOOD FARMERS, COUGH, FORGOTTEN TOMB, THE DEVILs BLOOD, IN SOLITUDE, PAGAN ALTAR among many others.

CARONTE are:

Dorian Bones – Vocals
Henry Bones – Desecratorbass
Tony Bones – Guitars
Mike de Chirico – Drums

Today's tune "Abraxas" is taken from the bands latest album "Yoni", enjoy!



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Kayleth - Forgive

Italian space rockers KAYLETH have an almighty record on their hands. Like the bastard son of ORANGE GOBLIN and MONSTER MAGNET, an album sets out for outer space with heavy riffs, plenty of fuzz and enough attitude!

KAYLETH were born in Verona on 2005 with the target to create a stoner rock, inspired by KYUSS, ORANGE GOBLINB, 7ZUMA7 and MONSTER MAGNET. KAYLETH are: Massimo Dalla Valle (guitar), Daniele Pedrollo (drums), Michele Montanari (synth), Alessandro Zanetti (bass) and Enrico Gastaldo (voice).

KAYLETH latest album "Colossus" was released January 12, 2018 on Argonauta Records. Recorded at Sotto il Mare Studio by Luca Tacconi, Mastered at Eleven Mastering by Andrea De Bernardi, Artwork by Carlo Sandri, All songs and lyrics wrote by KAYLETH

Today's tune "Forgive" is taken from the new album "Colossus", enjoy!



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Haunted - Watchtower

Catania based death-on-ten-legs HAUNTED manifest themselves in 2015, when gathered to came out in the wash their slow sub- sabbathian dirge occultish terror.

The banshees released their debut self titled full-length album in Digital and Digipack formats via TWIN EARTH RECORDS on August, 31st 2016. Two month later the Vinyl version got printed and released in two colored versions. Distributed worldwide the 31st October, 2016. Recorded & Mixed by Carlo Longo at NuevArte Studio, Catania, IT. Mastered by James Plotkin at Plotkinworks, Bethlehem, PA, June 2016. Artwork & Layout by Sandro Di Girolam. The albums music is a kind of ritualistic doom, characterized by long tracks, unmistakable B-movie horror vibe, churning heaviness and ethereal vocals.

HAUNTED is the soundtrack to your dark summoning ritual. All you have to do is draw yourself a pentagram and make sure the cameras are rolling. Don’t forget the candles."

HAUNTED Is:
Francesco Bauso: Guitars
Cristina Chimirri: Vocals
Valerio Cimino: Drums
Francesco Orlando: Guitars
Frank Tudisco: Bass

Today's tune "Watchtower" is an heavy, slow and deep piece of pagan distorted rock. A thick fog of bass lines and heavy smoky guitar riffs with poems/chants of Cristina Chimirri. Enjoy!



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Cadaveria - Death Vision

The Italian extreme metal band Cadaveria was formed in April 2001, forged by the erstwhile Opera IX personnel Cadaveria and Flegias, (a.k.a. Marçelo Santos), the latter reverting back to his real name. The band signed to Scarlet Records for the opening 2002 album The Shadows' Madame. Cadaveria and bassist Killer Bob would also be operational as singer for Industrialists DyNAbyte.

Cadaveria's second album, Far Away from Conformity released in early 2004, was recorded and mixed at Capitan Woofer Studios. In early 2007 the band joined Season of Mist and released In Your Blood in May 2007.

The fourth album Horror Metal was released in January 2012 and it's from that album we find todays tune. The band has elements of thrash, death, black, gothic and symphonic metal.

Todays tune "Death Vision" ('Post Mortem' Video-Edit). Directed and edited by Raffaella Rivarolo.



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