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Post-Black/Post-Hardcore/Avant Garde Artist LUCYNINE Announces ‘Melena’, A Claustrophobic Album About Unease and Hopelessness
- The Metallist PR
- Sep 5
- 3 min read
The Italian post-black/post-hardcore/avant garde artist LUCYNINE has revealed that his new album, entitled Melena, will be released on October 3rd via Talheim Records Germany.
Unlike the 2020 album Amor Venenat, a very heterogeneous concept resulting from a couple of years of work, Melena was born in a few months, very spontaneously, as the result of an almost physiological necessity. The album was born in a period of acute personal malaise, as an intimate and brutal expression of this desperation.
Melena is anticipated by the song Narciso Non Muore, available as a single on the main digital streaming platforms as well as video on the label’s YouTube channel.
Apple Music: https://tinyurl.com/633w24rb
Amazon Music: https://tinyurl.com/ycx2298n
Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/3kcpxwac
Pre-order: https://tinyurl.com/yc399dxu
melèna noun Medicine/Medical [from greek μέλαινα, μέλας «black» (tacit νόσος «illness»)]. – In Medical language, the discharge of black, tarry, bloody stools, usually resulting from a hemorrhage in the alimentary tract.
Blood and shit.
The visceral need to communicate his personal unease involved not only the composition and writing of the lyrics (first time completely in Italian), but also the stylistic choices in the production: the sound is claustrophobic, the vocal line is kept very underneath, as if it was suffocated by the wall of sound that subjugates it, the immoderate use of the compressors dries all the possible air out. In the fifth track “Opera al Nero”, an intricate 15 minute song, all of this described above is exacerbated to the limit and beyond. It is a record born from suffering to make you suffer as well.
The cover represents complete hopelessness, the death of one of the most common symbols of freedom and joy - a magpie. Bird that, in addition to being rigidly monogamous (the sentimental element linked to depression recurs in the lyrics), in Nordic mythologies is considered messenger of the gods and bird of the goddess of death. In the British Isles it is seen as a harbinger of bad news and a harbinger of mourning. In Scandinavia the magpie is associated with witchcraft.
Tracklist:
1. Uomo in mare (03:55)
2. Narciso non muore (02:48)
3. Melena (06:20)
4. Oltre la soglia (04:26)
5. Opera al nero (15:01)
Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Lucynine. Artwork, logo and photos by Sergio Bertani.
Discography:
Melena (Talheim Records Germany, Full-Length, 2025)
Amor Venenat (Inverse Records, Full-Length, 2020)
Tribute to Titor (Self-Released, EP, 2020)
Chronicles from Leri (Ænima Recordings, EP, 2013)
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“Lucynine has created what will easily be among my favourite albums of this year.” (Nick Hudson on The Progressive Aspect)
“This album is unlike anything I have experienced. This is a must-listen. You don’t want to miss this one. There is this wonderful depth and evolution throughout the whole thing and the delivery feels so completely genuine. I can’t think of a single thing I would improve. This is a masterpiece. It is an experience worth living. Go pick it up. You won’t regret it.” (Über Rock)
“A top-level album by a musician of great caliber and great will, who makes us navigate through troubled and little-known waters, black yet beautiful.” (Massimo Argo on In You Eyes Webzine)
“‘Amor Venenat’ is an album that surprises for its freshness and compositional originality, the choices made in the arrangement and production phases give us an album of a maturity that is rare to find in a debut album. It is an unexpected pearl from the prolific underground world.” (Alberto Gandolfo on Metal Hammer IT - TOP ALBUM OF THE MONTH)
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