Roman heavy psych instrumentalists L’Ira del Baccano issue their fifth full-length, The Praise of Folly, tomorrow, Feb. 20, through Subsound Records. It follows behind 2025’s split with Yama, Tempus Deorum (review here) and the increasingly progressive four-piece’s 2023 outing, Cosmic Evoked Potentials (review here), comprising four tracks splitting with longest-then-shortest symmetry across two sides for a total 42-minute run keyed on immersion and dynamic.

The latter is showcased quickly amid the resonant tonality of “The Praise of Folly (Pt. 1),” which in its first half enacts a fully realized linear build brought from silence to a howling clarion set to the slow march of Gianluca Giannasso‘s drumming before, shortly past the six-minute mark, the lead cut breaks to mostly-standalone guitar exploration from Alessandro Santori and Roberto Maldera, with newcomer bassist Gabriele Montemara renewing the heft gradually as they go. They finish big, as one frankly would hope, but “The Praise of Folly (Pt. 1)” is more about getting there than resting upon arrival, and the transition to “The Praise of Folly (Pt. 2)” introduces more synth to the proceedings, ending up somewhere along the lines of a sharper-cornered, earlier My Sleeping Karma, deceptively heavy and delivered with remarkable poise.

You can see in the tracklisting below that each half of The Praise of Folly breaks down to a song around 13 minutes long and one in the eight-minute range. I don’t know how the writing process goes for L’Ira del Baccano, but 12 years on from their debut, Terra 42 (review here), the band have never lost their sense of purpose or forward progression. The patience across side A here speaks to that, with side B for reinforcement as “Stigma” grows from its initial guitar line to answer the synthery of “The Praise of Folly (Pt. 2)” while also getting very, very heavy in a way that satisfies for both immersion and impact even before you get to the first solo — nearly but not quite three minutes into the song. It doesn’t meander from there, but neither does it take such a clear structural approach, feeling fluid as it lumbers, twists for a time and then floats on the other side of its midpoint, gradually shaping itself around the guitar line, which hits into a more solidified payoff riff after 10 minutes in and rides that to an engaging finish just in time for “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead” — sharing its title with the Tom Stoppard play turned into a 1990 film based around the Hamlet characters — to slam in with immediate, purposeful heft.

That transition isn’t to be understated, as it speaks to the ways in which the material is in conversation with itself throughout The Praise of Folly, one part complementing the next, referencing what’s come before without repeating, and so on. They don’t exactly finish “Stigma” light, but even a momentary drop of the roll is enough for “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead” to feel monolithic. They soon enough shift to dreamier fare, and that raw heft doesn’t show up again, but a rumbling threat persists as they delve toward proggier atmospheres topped with liberally-strewn shred, resolving clearheaded as they nod into the last fadeout, encompassing and expansive in kind. Like the record as a whole, those last moments are rife with energy despite a moderated tempo, and they feel likewise thoughtful and explorational. This is where L’Ira del Baccano have come to reside in terms of style, and the level of craft on The Praise of Folly is one at which the band have likewise arrived organically over time.

Live shows to support the record start this weekend, appropriately enough, and will continue through next month with more reportedly to come. On the player below, The Praise of Folly premieres in full. Subsequent info came down the PR wire.

Please enjoy:

Doomdelic Instrumental Space Prog Rockers L’IRA DEL BACCANO are back with their official 5th full length album on Subsound Records “The Praise of Folly”. Out on February 20th 2026.

Preorders: https://subsoundrecords.bigcartel.com/product/lira-del-baccano-the-praise-of-folly-lp-limited-cd

Rome based L’IRA DEL BACCANO melt doom & stoner rock influences such as Black Sabbath, Kyuss, Monster Magnet ; the psychedelia of Pink Floyd & Hawkwind; the heavy-prog vibes of early Rush; modern bands like Motorpsycho, Elder, Monolord and the italian progressive heritage. Since 2014, the collaboration with the Italian label Subsound Records has led to the release of four full-lengths and one split album : ‘Terra 42’ (2014), ‘Paradox Hourglass’ (2017), ‘Si non Sedes is Live’ (2018), ‘Cosmic Evoked Potentials’ (2023) & ‘Tempus Deorum” (2025).

In february 2026, the fifth album, “The Praise of Folly”, will be released. L’IRA DEL BACCANO has toured intensely in Europe and participated in festivals as Dome Of Rock , Psychedelic Network Festival, Pietrasonica Fest… Thanks to the broad and heterogeneous kind of listeners, who goes from metalheads to progressive rock fanatics and Stoner-Doom fan the band played in different kinds of venues and shared the stage also with different types of bands. (Church of Misery, Ozric Tentacles, Ufomammut, Zu, Nebula, Orange Goblin, Samsara Blues Experiment and more).

Power, dynamics, psychedelic sounds layers and a love for improvisation are the defining features of the Italian combo’s live shows. The long tracks that have always characterized L’Ira Del Baccano are in constant evolution and motion during every concert.

Tracklisting:
1. The Praise of Folly (Pt.1) (12:55)
2. The Praise of Folly (Pt. 2) (8:08)
3. Stigma (13:04)
4. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (8:45)

The band will begin the live promotion of the album immediately after its release with an initial series of concerts across Germany and Austria :

The road to Folly 2026 part 1
22/02 Bologna – Freakout Club
25/02 Salzburg – Rockhouse
26/02 Wien – Venster 99
27/02 Bayreuth – Glashaus
28/02 Berlin – Neue Zukunft – Blues Bumps Fest
01/03 Dresden – Chemiefabrik
03/03 Weimar – C. keller
04/03 Nuremberg – Kunstverein
05/03 Recklinghausen – Backyard Club
06/03 Würzburg – Immerhin
07/03 Erlangen – Transfer
27/03 Rome – Defrag
More TBA

Production & Mix: Alessandro Santori
Main Instruments recorded LIVE in one take
Music by: A. Santori & R. Malerba
Arrangements: Santori with Malerba, Giannasso & Montemara’
Mastering by Claudio Gruer at Pisistudio
Artwork by Michele Carnielli

L’IRA DEL BACCANO is:
Alessandro Santori- Guitars, Loops, Synths
Roberto Maldera- Guitars, Fx, Slide Guit, Synths
Gabriele Montemara’- Bass
Gianluca Giannasso – Drums

L’Ira del Baccano website

L’Ira del Baccano on Bandcamp

L’Ira del Baccano on Instagram

L’Ira del Baccano on Facebook

Subsound Records webstore

Subsound Records on Facebook

Alright, day two. Here we go. I never really know how a given day of the Quarterly Review is going to flow until I get there. The hope is that in slating releases for a given day — which I mostly do randomly over time, though I generally like to lead with something ‘bigger’ — I’ve considered things like not putting too much that sounds the same together, geographic variability, and so on. Sometimes that plan works, and I get a day like yesterday, which was pretty close to ideal. If that was the pattern for this entire QR, I’d be just fine with that, but I know better. One day at a time, as all the inspirational tchotchkes say.

Feeling good though headed into day two, so I’ll take it.

Quarterly Review #11-20:

Blackwater Holylight, If You Only Knew

The narrative around L.A.-by-way-of-Portland’s Blackwater Holylight at this point is one of growth, and well it should be. At seven years’ remove from their self-titled debut (review here), the four-piece offer the four-song If You Only Knew — three originals and a take on Radiohead‘s “All I Need” — as something of a stopgap four years after their third LP, Silence/Motion (review here). And like that 2021 album, “Wandering Lost,” “Torn Reckless” and “Fate is Forward” see the band working to expand their sound. They’re not upstarts anymore, and the marriage of dream-pop and crush on “Wandering Lost” alone is worth the price of admission, never mind the downward swirl of “Torn Reckless” the melodic burst-through and quiet space of “Fate is Forward” or the explosion in the back half of the Radiohead tune. Pro shop, all the way.

Blackwater Holylight website

Suicide Squeeze Records website

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Spider Kitten, The Truth is Caustic to Love

There’s a deep current of Melvinsian quirk in Spider Kitten‘s thickly-riffed slog, and it’s in the creeper-into-noiseburst of “Revelation #1” with its later rawest-Alice in Chains harmonies as much as the false start on “Febrile and Taciturn” and a chugblaster like “Wretched Evergreen” which is just one of the six songs in the 14-song tracklisting under two minutes long. Throughout the 37 minutes, shit gets weird. Then it gets weirder. Then they do folk balladeering in “Sueño” for a minimal-Western divergence prefacing the later soundtrackery of “Woe Betide Me.” Then they’re back to bashing away — but at what? Themselves? Their instruments certainly. Maybe a bit of shaking genre convention if not outright, all-the-time defiance. The key blend is ultimately of the crunch in their guitar and bass tones and the melodies that come to top it — not that all the vocals are melodic, mind you — with a kind of creative restlessness that makes each cut find its own way through, some at a decent clip, to leave a dent right in the middle of your forehead.

Spider Kitten links

APF Records website

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Mooch, Kin

Montreal three-piece Mooch align with Black Throne Productions for their fourth album release. The band, comprised of guitarist/bassist/vocalist Ben Cornel, guitarist/vocalist/bassist/keyboardist Julian Iac and drummer/vocalist Alex Segreti, have run a thread of quick, purposeful growth through the last several years, with 2024’s Visions (review here)  following 2023’s Wherever it Goes following their 2020 debut, Hounds, and other singles and such besides. At their hookiest, in a piece like “Hang Me Out (False Sun),” they remind some of At Devil Dirt‘s heavy-fuzz poppy plays, but one knows better than to expect Mooch to be singleminded on an LP, and Kin plays out with according complexity, finding a particularly satisfying resolution in “Prominence” before hitting successive, different crescendos in “Lightning Rod,” “Gemini” and the eight-minute “Zenith” to end the record. A band who genuinely seem to follow where the material takes them while refusing to get lost on the way.

Mooch links

Black Throne Productions website

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Snakes & Pyramids, Disappearer

I’m not a punker. I was never cool enough to listen to punk rock. Generally when I hear something that’s rooted in punk and it lands with me, I assume that means the band are doing punk wrong. If so, I like the way Snakes & Pyramids do punk wrong on Disappearer. The tonal presence, their willingness to make not-everything be exactly on-the-beat, the liberal doses of wah treatment on the lead guitar to give a psychedelic edge, the effects on the vocals helping that as well, plus the flexibility to roll out a heavy riff. There’s not a whole lot to not like as they push genre limits across 38 minutes and eight songs, finding space for post-punk in “Disappearer” or “All the Same” before they really dig in on the near-eight-minute closer “Seven Gods.” For future reference, the band is the doubly-Brian’ed three-piece of Brian Hammond (ex-The Curses), Brian Connor (ex-Motherboar) and Cavan Bligh. Psychedelic punk, even more than punk-metal or any other way you might want to try to blend it, is incredibly difficult to pull off well. That seems much less the case here.

Snakes & Pyramids on Bandcamp

Snakes & Pyramids on Instagram

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Unbelievable Lake, I Have No Mouth and Yet I Must Scream

There is only one song on I Have No Mouth and Yet I Must Scream, and it’s the title-track. At 41 minutes long, that’s all you need, and Northern Irish psych-drone experimentalists Unbelievable Lake — think Queen Elephantine, but longer-form, more effects on the guitar, and dramatic in the ebbs and flows — the first 10 minutes are a movement unto themselves, with a linear build into a consuming payoff; due comedown provided. Those comparatively still stretches can be some of the most difficult for a band who’ve just blown it out to dwell in, but Unbelievable Lake use negative-space as much as crush to make their way toward the next culmination, which sort of gradually devolves instrumentally but makes its way along the path of residual noise toward one last round of pummel. You bet your ass they make it count. This is a significant accomplishment, and enough on its own wavelength that most ears will glaze over to hear it. But there’s just the right kind of brain out there for it, as well. Maybe that’s you.

Unbelievable Lake on Bandcamp

Cursed Monk Records website

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Krautfuzz, Live at the Church

Krautfuzz scorch the ground on the 23-minute “Live at the Church A” to such a degree that I’m surprised there was anything left to plug in for when they bring out J. Mascis of Dinosaur Jr. and Witch to take part in “Live at the Church B,” let alone a full album-unto-itself 39 minutes’ worth of go. Rest assured, there’s plenty of noiseshove in “Live at the Church B” as well, and it arrives quicker than in the preceding slab, guitar running forward and back in loops even before the swirl cuts through the fuller distortion surrounding at about seven minutes in, howls and wails and wormholes and spacetime bend inward, flex outward, breathe like the cosmic microwave background, and the exploration continues after the rumble (mostly) subsides, getting ready to sneak in one more mini-freakout before they’re done. Damn, Krautfuzz. Save some lysergic push for the rest of the class. Or better, don’t. Clearly they were rolling out the ‘red carpet’ for Mr. Mascis. It just happened to be red from all the plasma churning thereupon.

Krautfuzz on Instagram

Sulatron Records website

Mirror World Music website

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Sleeping Mountain, Sleeping Mountain

Even before they get to the six-and-a-half-minute “The Door” or the dreamy midsection of closer “Medusa,” London’s Sleeping Mountain demonstrate patience in their delivery early on with the instrumental-save-for-the-sample leadoff “Humans” and “Walls of Shadows,” which leads with guest vocals before the full tonal crux of the riff is unveiled, and continues in methodical, doom-leaning fashion. That’s a vibe that doesn’t necessarily persist as the later “Akelarre” puts the cymbals out front and pushes a more uptempo finish ahead of the closer “Medusa,” but the dude-twang “Alibi” and the all-in nod of “Tennessee Walking Horse” underscore the message of dynamic, and while this self-titled may be the first album from Sleeping Mountain, it portrays the three-piece as confident in their approach and sure of their direction, even if they’re not 100 percent on where that direction is going. Nor should they be. They should be writing the songs and letting the rest work itself out over time, which is what you get here. They sound like a band I’ll still be writing about in a decade, so I guess we’ll see how it goes.

Sleeping Mountain website

Sleeping Mountain on Bandcamp

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Goblinsmoker, The King’s Eternal Throne

Behold the awaited first album from Durham, UK, sludge-doom, put-a-pillow-over-your-face-and-it’s-made-of-riffs betrayers Goblinsmoker. Dubbed The King’s Eternal Throne and indeed capping with the three-minute minimalist homage “Toad King (Forest Synth Offering),” the preceding title-track works its way from its more poised opening into an engrossing meganod of hairy-ass distortion, with the later-arriving throatripper screams ready for whatever Dopethrone comparison you want to make, and no less sharp in the biting. Of course, by the time they get to that third-of-four inclusions, this has already been well proven on side A’s “Shamanic Rites” and “Burn Him,” the leadoff holding to a steady and malevolent lumber while the follow-up takes a faster swing to upending witchy convention as the vocals offer the most vicious devourment I’ve heard from an English band since Dopefight roamed the earth. Down with humans. Up with toads. Familiar enough in its sludgy roots, The King’s Eternal Throne makes its own trouble like dog food makes gravy (with added liquid, in other words), and basks in heaps of shenanigans besides. The songs are like slow-motion razor juggling.

Goblinsmoker on Bandcamp

APF Records website

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Onioroshi, Shrine

The three-song sophomore full-length, Shrine, from Italian heavy progressives Onioroshi is the band’s first outing since 2019’s debut, Beyond These Mountains (review here), and is duly adventurous for that. Set up across “Pyramid” (18:18), “Laborintus” (15:35) and “Egg” (20:31), the album feels cohesive in refusing to be anything other than one it is. Its psychedelia is met with fervent terrestrial groove, and “Laborintus” spends most of its 15 minutes sounding like it’s about to fall apart, but never does. Duh, should I call it expansive? The truth is at 54 minutes, it’s a significant undertaking, but “Laborintus” ends up thrilling for the element of danger, and though raw in the production, “Egg” builds its own world in atmospherics, pushing further in the ebbs and flows of “Pyramid,” which itself takes loud/quiet trades to a less-predictable place. Some of Shrine feels insular, but that seems to be the point. A creative call to worship, and maybe worshiping the creativity itself.

Onioroshi on Bandcamp

Bitume Productions website

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L’Ira del Baccano & Yama, Tempus Deorum

Whoa. First of all, with Tempus Deorum, you’ve got L’Ira del Baccano. The Roman psychedelic explorers follow 2023’s Cosmic Evoked Potentials (review here) with the 19-minute piece “Tempus 25,” an ether-bound reach that hypnotizes well ahead of unveiling its full tonal breadth and even crushes a bit before receding ahead of the next go. With synth cascading through the midsection and a duly expansive build that hits two more climaxes before it’s through, “Tempus 25” sets itself up in contrast to Tilburg, the Netherlands’ Yama, whose 2014 debut, Ananta (review here), is well remembered as they offer three songs “Wish to Go Under,” “The Absolute” and “Naraka,” that feel more solidified in their structure but that offer complement to “Tempus 25” for that. Not short on scope themselves, Yama let the chug patterning and vocal soar of “The Absolute” stand in evidence of their progressivism, and after 11 years, they sound like they have more to say. One only hopes that’s the case all around on this somehow-tidy, 35-minute split LP.

L’Ira del Baccano website

Yama on Bandcamp

Subsound Records store

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Certainly L’Ira del Baccano have been kicking around this whole time — their maybe-fourth full-length, Cosmic Evoked Potentials (review here), came out in 2023 — but it’s something of a surprise to see Tilburg, the Netherlands, classic desert rockers Yama. The Dutch outfit released their debut album, Ananta (review here), in 2014, and one assumes after doing a show together or some such, the two bands became friends.

A decade later, here comes Tempus Deorum, a new split with L’Ira del Baccano‘s first new material since the last record (not that long) and Yama‘s first new material in 11 years. Curious to hear what both bands have come up with for it, but definitely some added intrigue in the assertion of psychedelic experimentation in doom and so on. There’s no audio from the LP posted yet that I’ve found, but keep an eye out.

I don’t remember if this was from socials or the PR wire, but I’m not sure it matters. Info and preorder links follow, from the internet:

L’IRA DEL BACCANO and Yama team up for a special split album entitled “Tempus Deorum”, to be released on March 28th !

We are super stoked to start the presale of this this incredible split !

Formats : LP/CD/DDL
Artwork : Michele Carnielli
Mastering : Claudio Pisi Gruer Claudio Mastering Pisi

PREORDERS:
https://subsoundrecords.bigcartel.com/artist/l-ira-del-baccano
https://subsoundrecords.bigcartel.com/artist/yama

In the summer of 2015, in the Italian Dolomites, a friendship between two European heavy underground bands was struck. About a decade later, Roman psych-doom quartet L’Ira Del Baccano and Tilburgian doom rock outfit Yama join forces in a musical collaboration: their split album ‘Tempus Deorum’, to be released on March 28th through Subsound Records (Italy).

L’Ira Del Baccano’s contribution comprises a drawn-out 19-minute instrumental psych doom jam, in which they fully expand the concept of an ever-evolving song, taking a theme and leading it on a dynamic roller-coaster journey, reshaping it through the heaviness of doom, the psychedelia of improvisation and the precision of progressive rock.

Yama bring some of their doomiest tracks to the table and experiment with psychedelic drone elements, in collaboration with producer David Luiten (Autarkh).

‘Tempus Deorum’ (‘Time Of The Gods’) is not only an allegorical congregation of deities, it is also the blossoming of psychedelic heaviness.

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https://www.facebook.com/LiraDelBaccano42/
https://liradelbaccanoofficial.bandcamp.com/
http://www.iradelbaccano.it/

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https://yama.bandcamp.com/

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L’Ira del Baccano, Cosmic Evoked Potentials (2023)

Yama, Ananta (2014)

Anybody remember November? Yeah, me neither. It’s the end of January, the start of February this week, so November might as well have been 1922 it was so long ago. That said, there was something distinctly familiar about the list of tour dates from L’Ira del Baccano as the Italian Subsound Records denizens set forth to promote their ’23 LP, Cosmic Evoked Potentials (review here), and indeed, some of them were announced last Fall. I didn’t figure anybody would be yelling at me for getting them up again — some of the TBD dates have filled in, which is nice to see — and perhaps snag an ear or two who missed the album when that came through because, well, it might make your day better. Ain’t no mystery to what we’re doing here these days.

Maybe they’ll announce a summer tour next week and I can post that and then do it again in June, just keep a thread going. Would you notice? Of course not.

Dates from social media:

L’IRA DEL BACCANO official artworks for our Tour created by Michele Carnielli a.k.a. @visione444 . See you on the road!!

(SEARCHING 4TH BETWEEN WÜRZBURG & WEIMAR,HELP US!!)

L’IRA DEL BACCANO Feb/March Tour 2024
17-02 Rome Defrag
27-02 Verona Fine Di Mondo
28-02 Bolzano @pippostage
29-02 Altotting Plattenzimmer e.V.
01-03 Nuremberg Kunstverein Hintere-Cramergasse e.V. with @j.ø.t.u.
02.03 Schmalkalden Kulturverein Villa K with GODDYS
03-03 Würzburg Immerhin Würzburg
04-03 NEED..BOOK US!!
05-03 Weimar C.Keller & Galerie Markt 21 e. V.
06-03 Dresden Chemiefabrik Dresden (Chemo) with Methadone Skies
07-03 Prague @klubmodravopice Těžká psychedelika
08-03 Bayreuth Glashaus Bayreuth
09-03 Heidelberg Yolo Hof
10-03 Salzburg Rockhouse Bar with Humulus

L’IRA DEL BACCANO “COSMIC EVOKED POTENTIALS” order:

SUBSOUND: https://subsoundrecords.bigcartel.com/artist/l-ira-del-baccano
BANDCAMP: https://liradelbaccanoofficial.bandcamp.com/album/cosmic-evoked-potentials

L’Ira del Baccano:
Alessandro Drughito Santori: Guitars, Loops , Production
Roberto Malerba: Lead Guitar, Guitar FX, Synth, Loops
Gianluca Giannasso: Drums
Ivan Contini: Bass

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https://liradelbaccanoofficial.bandcamp.com/
http://www.iradelbaccano.it/

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L’Ira del Baccano, Cosmic Evoked Potentials (2023)

L’Ira del Baccano, “The Strange Dream of My Old Sun” official video

Supporting their 2023 album, Cosmic Evoked Potentials (review here), on Subsound Records, Italian heavy psychedelic rockers L’Ira del Baccano will head out on a round of European touring starting at the end of February. There are dates to be filled in — I also don’t have venue info, so I guess there’s that as well — here and there as the band courses mostly through Germany, with some shows in Italy and a date in Prague for good measure. They’re hoping to tag a couple more shows onto the end as well, and I’d assume there’s some flex there geographically, since they can head in whatever direction might make sense and then just turn back home after. If all comes together as planned, it’ll be a solid two weeks of shows without a day off. Not insignificant.

The following was posted on socials. If you can help out, do. If you missed the record, you’re never too late no matter what internet fomo tells you. Good music is never irrelevant, especially not for having been out for several months already.

Dig:

Doomdelic Instrumental Space Prog Rockers @L’IRA DEL BACCANO will be on tour in Germany next March promoting the last album Cosmic Evoked Potential. Few slots are still to be filled. Any suggestion is much appreciated!! (better contacts/names of promoter/booker of course ). Below list of dates, Links. DM the band or Alessandro Drughito Santori for info. Free dates : MARCH 3rd -4th ( 2nd we will be in Schmalkalden and 5th in Weimar)- MARCH 10th & 11th South Germany/Switzerland

L’IRA DEL BACCANO Feb/March Tour 2024

17-02 Rome
27-02 Verona
28-02 Bolzano
29-02 Altotting
01-03 Nuremberg
02.03 Schmalkalden
03-03 NEED..BOOK US!!
04-03 NEED..BOOK US!!
05-03 Weimar
06-03 Dresden
07-03 Prague
08-03 TBA
09-03 Heidelberg
10-03 NEED..BOOK US!! ( South Germany, Switzerland, South France)
11-03 NEED..BOOK US!! ( South Germany, Switzerland, South France

L’IRA DEL BACCANO “COSMIC EVOKED POTENTIALS” order:

SUBSOUND: https://subsoundrecords.bigcartel.com/artist/l-ira-del-baccano
BANDCAMP: https://liradelbaccanoofficial.bandcamp.com/album/cosmic-evoked-potentials

L’Ira del Baccano:
Alessandro Drughito Santori: Guitars, Loops , Production
Roberto Malerba: Lead Guitar, Guitar FX, Synth, Loops
Gianluca Giannasso: Drums
Ivan Contini: Bass

https://www.facebook.com/LiraDelBaccano42/
https://liradelbaccanoofficial.bandcamp.com/
http://www.iradelbaccano.it/

http://subsoundrecords.bigcartel.com/artist/l-ira-del-baccano
https://www.facebook.com/subsoundrecords/

L’Ira del Baccano, Cosmic Evoked Potentials (2023)

L’Ira del Baccano, “The Strange Dream of My Old Sun” official video

This week marks both the album release and the launch of the tour to support it for L’Ira del Baccano‘s new LP, Cosmic Evoked Potentials (review here). No, it’s not the longest string of tour dates you’ll ever see, but that’s the point; it’s a band getting out and doing what they can to spread the word about their new record. Pretty much the ideal of underground heavy in all its forms. The Italian instrumentalists will be out for nine shows in their home country and of course Germany, and whether it’s the only run they do or the beginning of a series of such sojourns, considering the work they’ve done on the album, I think it’s a good time to show up at a gig if you happen to be in their path or adjacent to it.

That’s pretty much the story here. The record is coming out through Subsound, and most of what I have to say about it is in the review linked above — these tour dates were also posted there, but I’m a big believer in supporting independent tours for cool albums — but if this nudge gets a few more ears on it or maybe a body out to a show, that’s enough of an excuse to me to repeat myself. This is the internet. Not like there isn’t room.

The video that was previously premiered for album opener “The Strange Dream of My Old Sun” is below. By all means, dive in:

L’IRA DEL BACCANO COSMIC MARCH TOUR 2023 starts this week!

03-03 MANTOVA – Arci Tom (with I BARBARI )
04-03 ROSENHEIM – Asta Rosenheim (with Status Seeker)
05-03 WURZBURG – Immerhin Würzburg for Freakshow.In.Concert
06-03 NUREMBERG – Kunstverein Hintere-Cramergasse e.V. (with @Pyramid )
07-03 WEIMAR – C.Keller & Galerie Markt 21 e. V.
08-03 HILDBURGHAUSEN – Molle HBN
09-03 MANNHEIM – Geschichtswerkstatt Altes Volksbad
10-03 ULM – Hexenhaus Ulm Rockt Hexenhaus Ulm
11-03 KAUFBEUREN – ROUNDHOUSE Kaufbeuren Subdivisions e.V.

L’IRA DEL BACCANO “COSMIC EVOKED POTENTIALS” pre order :

SUBSOUND: https://subsoundrecords.bigcartel.com/artist/l-ira-del-baccano
BANDCAMP: https://liradelbaccanoofficial.bandcamp.com/album/cosmic-evoked-potentials

L’IRA DEL BACCANO : New album on March 3rd

L’Ira del Baccano:
Alessandro Drughito Santori: Guitars, Loops , Production
Roberto Malerba: Lead Guitar, Guitar FX, Synth, Loops
Gianluca Giannasso: Drums
Ivan Contini: Bass

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L’Ira del Baccano, Cosmic Evoked Potentials (2023)

L’Ira del Baccano, “The Strange Dream of My Old Sun” official video

I was sitting on the couch earlier this week, in the usual spot, putting this playlist together and, knowing that I wanted to start with the title-track of the new Mansion album — something about Alma crooning that second death is upon you felt just right — I was immediately stuck. How on earth do you follow that? I was glad that I remembered Samán and could use them to transition to a kind of riffier take, but yeah, in terms of vibe, the severity of that Mansion record is a tough one to answer immediately with something else. Where do you go from there beyond an actual dungeon?

This show kind of divides in half. The first hour is new music. The second hour is a look at some Polish heavy, which if you’ve been paying attention to the last few Friday Full-Lengths (including today’s, which isn’t posted yet), you know has been on my mind. Dopelord, Major Kong, Belzebong, Sunnata and Weedpecker represent Poland well, I thought — Spaceslug are the obvious name left out, but I’m keeping them in reserve for later — and after that I wanted to close with SubRosa just because “Black Majesty” is long, brilliant, not a jam, and something that was in my head. It’s been an up and down couple of weeks, I guess, as regards general well-being.

If you’re unfamiliar, keep an ear out for Moodoom early, plus the tracks from The Machine, Swan Valley Heights, Stoned Jesus and Troll Teeth. The 1782 track isn’t my favorite off their new record — anything about lady-demons is kind of a turnoff for me at this point — but the band is cool and that’s the single from the album, so I wasn’t about to be a jerk and pick something else. And if you didn’t hear the L’Ira del Baccano earlier this week when it premiered, that’s time well spent in instrumental immersion, and makes a great leadoff for that extended block of tunes, I think.

As always, I hope you enjoy the show if you listen. Thanks for reading.

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Full playlist:

The Obelisk Show – 02.17.23 (VT = voice track)

Mansion	Second Death	Second Death
Samán	A las puertas	II. Monta​ñ​a Roja
1782	Succubus	Clamor Luciferi
Moodoom	Las maravillas de estar loco	Desde el Bosque
VT
L’Ira del Baccano	The Strange Dream of My Old Sun	Cosmic Evoked Potentials
The Machine	Reversion	Wave Cannon
Swan Valley Heights	The Hunger	Terminal Forest
Stoned Jesus	Get What You Deserve	Father Light
Troll Teeth	Garden of Pillars	Underground Vol. 1
Dopelord	Doom Bastards	Sign of the Devil (2020)
Major Kong	Fading Memory of the Planet Earth	Off the Scale (2020)
Belzebong	Roached Earth	Light the Dankness (2018)
Sunnata	A Million Lives	Burning in Heaven, Melting on Earth (2021)
Weedpecker	Big Brain Monsters	IV: The Stream of Forgotten Thoughts (2021)
VT
SubRosa	Black Majesty	For This We Fought the Battle of Ages (2016)

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Italian instrumentalist heavy progressive rockers L’Ira del Baccano will release their new album, Cosmic Evoked Potentials, on March 3, through Subsound Records. Recorded live in 2021, the band count it as their fourth full-length behind 2017’s Paradox Hourglass (review here), 2014’s Terra 42 (review here) and 2013’s Si Non Sedes iS: Live MMVII (reissue review here), though the latter was a live album taken from the first show they played under the L’Ira del Baccano name; they’d previously been known as Loosin’ o’ Frequencies and before that as Dark Awake, the collaboration between guitarist Alessandro Drughito Santori and guitarist/synthesist Roberto Malerba going back to the mid-’90s doom scene in Rome. Completed by bassist Ivan Contini Bacchisio and drummer Gianluca Giannasso, the Roman four-piece reemerge post-pandemic with a 40-minute collection of thoughtfully executed tracks.

They put their two longest pieces, opener “The Strange Dream of My Old Sun” (10:44) (video premiering below) and “Genziana (Improvisation 42)” (13:21) on side A while “The Electric Resolution” (6:37), “Cosmic Evoked Potentials” (6:38) and “Eclipse Omega…Old Sun Reprise” (2:50) highlight a more drifting psychedelic approach on side B, not without movement, but balancing its heft against a meditative patience and synth-laced far-out-ism, the title-track rooting its way into a nebular cloud of synth and drum atmospherics that feels broader in reach than the band were even just a few years ago. The general mission of L’Ira del Baccano hasn’t changed, in terms of bringing Santori‘s songs to life in a full, vibrant and engrossing fashion with marked chemistry all the more apparent for their commitment to live recording (which has obviously been there since the start), but as one might expect, they’ve grown firmer in their purposes, more mature, and more solidified even as they explore new avenues of their sound — and not at all just in the two longer tracks at the outset, though “The Strange Dream of My Old Sun” and “Genziana (Improvisation 42)” do make for a particularly dive-right-in beginning on the longer first side of the platter.

Strangers neither to fluidity nor heft, L’Ira del Baccano launch Cosmic Evoked Potentials in immediate communion with the titular space. An introductory drone leads to a stretch of methodically building soft guitar before the drums enter, synth or guitar drone coinciding as the bass and the drums lock in the central groove. Over the next few minutes, they solidify around a procession that brings to mind My Sleeping Karma before seeming to find another level of heavy shortly before the five-minute mark. Tied together in some ways by its synth, “The Strange Dream of My Old Sun” flows in its transitions and is hypnotic as it plays back and forth, one element rising in the dynamic mix before receding back, be it heavier guitar, the keyboard or some looped effects either from Santori or Malerba. A second (or third, depending on where you hear the divisions) movement to the track begins at around seven minutes, shifting into slower roll, with weightier low end and a distinct sense of punctuation in the snare as the guitars strum harder and the synth moves toward its eventual freakout apex, residual after the crash of the other instruments as a lead-in for “Genziana (Improvisation 42),” the 13 minutes of which were reportedly carved out of a 45-minute jam.

It’s hard to imagine that full session won’t see release at some point in this age of infinite capacity to throw something out there to stream for interested fans, but there’s something to be said as well for the manner in which L’Ira del Baccano construct “Genziana (Improvisation 42)” — one also wonders if they actually keep count, and if so, if they have a hard drive somewhere containing this and the 41 other improv jams leading up to it — working off the spontaneous foundation and overdubbing synth and effects in ways that build out the ambient impression of what becomes a complete idea of a song, growing to some of Cosmic Evoked Potentials‘ heaviest moments rather than simply meandering through space, finding a progressive chug in its second half around which the band seem rally and collectively push forward, and while I know editing is a part of the art here, the musical conversation between players is nonetheless what makes “Genziana (Improvisation 42)” such a highlight, the way the turns are anticipated and fleshed out and all the more cohesive for the keyboard so crucial to its makeup.

“The Electric Resolution” finds itself more quickly directed into a winding but still riffy movement, some fuzz to the tone but a kind of distortion that would work as well for metal as it does for the ultimately still-languid purposes L’Ira del Baccano put it to as the backing for the midpoint lead on their side B leadoff. That solo legitimately soars, and the rhythm that reemerges after seems to carry all the more punch for its having been there, the two guitars finding a harmonized moment before splitting off for dual-channel solos and a stop that brings the keyboard to the forefront ahead of a complex but welcoming ending and direct turn into “Cosmic Evoked Potentials” itself, which is a mellower counterpoint to “The Electric Resolution.” The two feel purposefully paired even before one notes the similarity in runtime, and though the title-track gets plenty heavy and even works in a bit of shove to its ending, the abiding spirit is more subdued, not as hard-edged as the song prior, which is a turn well made in leading to “Eclipse Omega” and its synth/drone communion with “The Strange Dream of My Old Sun” back at the start.

If the idea with “Eclipse Omega” was to underscore the journey that’s been unfolding as L’Ira del Baccano convey the ways in which creativity seems ether-born — the potentials evoked from the cosmos, they might say — and to look back and see the place they started as a small dot like the distant Earth as viewed from Saturn’s rocky, icy rings, then fair enough. What that doesn’t necessarily tell you is how well Cosmic Evoked Potentials functions as a distinct entirety in tone and performance. The molten vibes throughout and the manner in which the band create space and then work to fill them are a fitting manifestation of their style and evolution as a group (Giannasso, making his first appearance, fits right in and plays a large role in setting the mood), and they’ve yet to find the end point, it seems, as “Eclipse Omega” calls out to the void in the resonant long fade that caps the album. Considering these recordings are two years old — something not all that uncommon in the era of global wakeup — it’s entirely possible L’Ira del Baccano have already moved forward from where these songs find them, but the accomplishments here in atmosphere and expression aren’t to be ignored. It is a work to be engaged with which it is a pleasure to engage.

The video for “The Strange Dream of My Old Sun” premieres below, followed by more info on the record from the PR wire, including some words from Santori on the subject.

Please enjoy:

L’Ira del Baccano, “The Strange Dream of My Old Sun” video premiere

Alessandro Santori on “The Strange Dream of My Old Sun”:

“The Strange Dream.. ” is a roller coaster, a trip about our expectations, on what and where the highs and lows of our lives will bring us.

L’IRA DEL BACCANO “COSMIC EVOKED POTENTIALS” pre order :

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L’IRA DEL BACCANO : New album on March 3rd

Doomdelic Instrumental Space Prog Rockers L’IRA DEL BACCANO are back with their official 4th album on Subsound Records ‘‘COSMIC EVOKED POTENTIALS’’. The album release will be preceded by a video for the single ‘‘The Strange Dream of My Old Sun’’.

Producer and guitarist Alessandro Santori says about the album: Cosmic Evoked Potentials is a rite of passage, the end of a circle and already blooming of another. Surely our most instinctive effort so far. We went back to our roots of live recording, this time instead of a stage we chose an old mansion from late ‘1700 outside Rome. The atmosphere there was so charming and stimulating that 13 minutes of a 45 min long improvisation ended up in the album. We wanted the dynamics and moods of the parts to be the most important thing, taking more time than our usual developing the “story” of the songs.

L’Ira Del Baccano will start promoting “Cosmic Evoked Potentials” live in March 2023:
COSMIC MARCH TOUR 2023
03-03 MANTOVA IT – Arci Tom
04-03 ROSENHEIM DE – Asta Rosenheim
05-03 WURZBURG DE – Immerhin
06-03 NUREMBERG DE – Kunstverein Hintere
07-03 WEIMAR DE – C. Keller
08-03 HILDBURGHAUSEN DE – Molle
09-03 MANNHEIM DE – Altes Volksbad
10-03 ULM DE – Hexenhaus Ulm
11-03 KAUFBEUREN DE- Roundhouse
12-03 TBA

Tracklisting:
1. The Strange Dream of my Old Sun 10:44
2. Genziana (Improvisation 42)* 13:21
3. The Electric Resolution 06:36
4. Cosmic Evoked Potentials 06:37
5. Eclipse Omega…Old Sun Reprise 02:50

(* Genziana is an improvisation extract from a 45 minutes live session with post overdubs)

L’Ira del Baccano:
Alessandro Drughito Santori: Guitars, Loops , Production
Roberto Malerba: Lead Guitar, Guitar FX, Synth, Loops
Gianluca Giannasso: Drums
Ivan Contini: Bass

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