#Italian Death Metal

[drondskaath]

Keres | Homo Homini Lupus | 2024

Italian Black/Death Metal

Artwork by Cristian Giaco

[thethroneislost]

Electrocution - "Inside the Unreal" - LP 1993 Italy

[thethcministry]

[lilarctos]

Fulci

[auralatrocityabyss]

Fleshgod Apocalypse 3/12/23

Come and Take It Live

Photos by me.

[musicalburgerman]

Fulci - Duck Face Killings

The musical equivalent to an Italian pizza restaurant cashier telling you about murders committed in the neighborhood

7/10

[doomreturn]

[rottingwaysofmisery]

So, you want to get into Italian Metal?

Who the fuck has ever asked for that? Anyways, here’s some recommendations:

Mortuary Drape

Old School Black Metal band, I highly recommend the albums “All the Witches Dance”, “Tolling 13 Knell”, and “Secret Sudaria”. 

Sadist

Excellent Progressive Death Metal. Extremely technical and yet soulful.

Death SS

Despite the unfortunate name, they are NOT Nazis. The “SS” is short for “Steve Sylvester”, as in “The Death of Steve Sylvester”. Now since that’s out of the way, their music is more in the vein of traditional heavy metal with a tinge of doom, that sonically wouldn’t be too unbefitting next to First-Wave Black Metal.

Abysmal Grief

Doom Metal that’s heavily reliant on the “Church Organ” setting on keyboards. If you’re looking for something slow and yet spooky, this might be up your alley (although personally I’d just listen to some of the doomier Type O songs).

Cultus Sanguine

Doom Metal. I like to think of this band as a cousin to Abysmal Grief, in that they’re instrumentally similar with the main difference being the anguished vocals. Same appeal as Abysmal Grief, although the songs do get a bit same-y.

Gargoyle

A mix of extreme metal and traditional doom metal. Would definitely highly recommend. Unfortunately they’re not on Spotify, so I can’t put them on my playlists as much as I’d want to.

That’s all I have for now! You might ask, “Wait, where’s [blank]! They’re widely known and important to the Italian metal scene!” and the answer is they probably suck ass (I’m looking at you, Lacuna Coil). This is mainly just my personal taste, anyways.

[drondskaath]

Hour of Penance | Devotion | 5th April, 2024

Italian Technical Death Metal

[toxicmetalzine]

Lacuna Coli

LACUNA COIL Release New Single And Video “In The Mean Time” Check out the video right here: https://toxicmetalzine.com/post/lacuna-co

[thethcministry]

[triste-guillotine]

DEATH SS “The Cursed Singles” (’...Reunited in the dark I renew my pact with the dead. World of ghosts now rules over us 'cause they know all we seek day by day. I call the spirits from the dark blazes. I call the spirits for this spiritualist seance’)

1. Zombie 2. Terror 3. The Night of the Witch 4. Black Mummy 5. Profanation 6. Spiritualist Seance 7. In the Darkness 8. The Mandrake Root

“These singles are based on old ideas from the 1977-1982 period but were actually recorded in 1993, during the recording sessions of Steve Sylvester's first solo album (with Paul Chain and the other early Death SS members) and were never first released in the 80s, as is widely believed.”

https://nuclearwarnowproductions.bandcamp.com/album/the-cursed-singles

[metalsongoftheday]

Wednesday, May 8: Shores of Null, "Ruins Alive"

It took a while, but Katatonia’s sound and approach would ultimately prove influential, with groups like Shores of Null building on their strain of heavy melancholy on “Ruins Alive”.  The track began on a more conventional black metal tip, but the drumming quickly took more dynamic twists before the sonorous vocals kicked in.  It was nominally heavier than Katatonia, and Davide Straccione’s singing was more varied, frequently going for a more soaring quality but also bringing in some Nick Holmes-style barking.  And with the last 45 seconds or so picking up the pace, Shores of Null showed how they were able to take Katatonia’s influence while adding other dimensions to their sound.