Varego Set June 11 Release for Self-Titled Album
A thing or two to notice in the info below for Varego‘s upcoming self-titled fourth album, in addition to the standard stuff like preorders and a streaming single and the release date. The essentials. While you’re taking those in and further considering the takeover of digital distribution that DistroKid has quietly pulled off in the last couple years — at least that part of it not solely devoted to Bandcamp — note too that Varego are now a three-piece after apparently parting ways with guitarist Gero Lucisano since 2019’s I, Prophetic (review here).
The exclusion (however it came about) of Lucisano would seem to have coincided as well with a separation from Argonauta Records — which the now-former guitarist heads — and finds the band releasing their record on their own. They herald a new sonic direction as well, and at the very least a shift from two guitars to one would affect their dynamic, so yeah, I’m sure there are some stylistic shifts present. You can get a taste for what that means in the visualizer they’re presenting for “Limbo” below. And no, they’re not talking about the lean-way-back kind of limbo.
From the PR wire:
VAREGO Release new single and video for ‘Limbo’
“Varego” out on June 11th
Italian post prog trio VAREGO recently announced their return to the scene and today they are proud to unveil the details of their new self-titled album, ‘Varego’, out on June 11th, 2021.
To celebrate and to give a first taste of their new sound, the band presents the first single and visualizer for ‘Limbo’.
Listen/download the new single ‘Limbo’ here: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/varego/limbo
“Limbo was the first track on the new album that we created. The powerful bass intertwines with heavy rock guitar riffs, while the drums bring us back to a connatural rhythm.
The lyrics talk about all those stalemates in our lives, where we think we are conditioned by events but in reality it is us and our fears that cause this state of life: by destroying them we can become the food for our dreams”, says the band.
Pre-orders of “Varego” are now available here:
CD Digipack and digital: https://varego.bandcamp.com/album/varego-2
The band’s fourth studio album, “Varego”, was recorded in a few days almost entirely in real time at Greenfog Studio in Genoa, with producer Mattia Cominotto (Meganoidi, Tre Allegri ragazzi Morti) who also did the mixing and mastering.
The album preserves the strength of the wildness and the organicity of the songwriting, leading to a new maturity. VAREGO’s sound found a new fresh energy and it is significantly more powerful, an exanthema with grunge echoes, stoner rock riffs, post metal and prog rock nuances, that pushes the evolution of the group one step further. It’s the manifest result of a creative peak and, in the meantime, a point of arrival and a new start.
“The special feature of this new album is its instinctiveness. The composition of the songs was written on the spur of the moment, in fact in the studio we wanted to give this feeling by recording all the rhythmic parts, including the guitar, in real time. The lyrics are about war, drugs, madness, death and everything that poisons the lives of human beings, trying to ‘exorcise’ and transform all this poison into medicine. Also on a musical level, the intention is to make people feel that darkness and light are complementary, the two sides of the coin called life”, states the band.
Like the coal reveals the diamond over time, in this new record VAREGO know how to refine their visceral instinct, transforming it into a definite and incisive force. Their poisonous properties have become the exacerbated healing balm to the discomfort of today’s world.
“Varego” tracklist:
1.Tunnel
2. Limbo
3. Death
4. Needles
5. One
6. Wave
7. Raptus (Un passo e muori)
VAREGO are:
Davide Marcenaro – vocals, bass
Alberto Pozzo – guitars
Simon Lepore – drums
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