The part that sold me on checking out La Morte Viene Dallo Spazio was the part where it says it’s a ‘solid departure from anything you will be listening to right now.’ I wasn’t actually listening to anything when I saw the press release, but the point was well-enough taken, and if you like your space rock hard-hitting and equal parts cosmic and weird, Trivial Visions will likely prove anything but. The Milano five-piece’s second record is due out in March through respected purveyor Svart Records, and while they’re not necessarily a second Big Bang, the ‘solid departure’ bit is an accurate description, if perhaps underselling the liquefaction of the record itself and its nebular swirl.

A five-minute post-Hawkwindian thrust called “Cursed Invader” is the first streaming audio to come from Trivial Visions and you can hear it at the bottom of this post.

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La Morte Viene Dallo Spazio – Trivial Visions

La Morte Viene Dallo Spazio (Death Comes From Space)’s name is taken from an a late 50s Italian sci-fi b-movie, and this ensemble’s cinematic odyssey of sound is like Argento, Fulci and Bava taking acid with Magma and Jodorowsky. A solid departure from anything you will be listening to right now, La Morte Viene Dallo Spazio’s free-form journeys leave you in unknown astral territory and bake your brain.

Composed of an open gathering of players, the Italian quintet combines flavours of Middle Eastern scales, droning theremin and guitars. Their flute-player’s frantic, progressive and abstract elements tear open the cosmic gates like Jethro Tull in a Giallo nightmare. The first album, ‘Sky Over Giza’, released in 2018, was a synth laden soundscape full of ancient mysticism and alien apparitions which gained them a rabid following in their home country of Italy and beyond.

La Morte Viene Dallo Spazio’s second album on Svart Records; ‘Trivial Visions’, is a wholly unique experience. An enthralling listen in a confluence of sound and ritual atmospheres that craft a both vibrant and hypnotic effect with nods to black metal and extreme ends of the sound spectrum. This vivid, dreamy and cosmic material will transfer the listener to vast sonic dimensions where one could easily lose the way back to reality. Is this Jazz, Stoner-Rock, Psych-Rock or Progressive Rock? This is La Morte Dallo Spazio and they’re in a universe of their own. Start receiving your deathly visions when the new album drops via Svart Records on the 26th of March 2021.

All songs written and composed by La Morte Viene Dallo Spazio

La Morte Viene Dallo Spazio are:
Melissa Crema – theremin, organ, synthesizers, vocals and lyrics
Stefano ‘Bazu’ Basurto – guitars, sitar and vocals
Camilla Chessa – bass
Angelo Avogadri – flute and guitars
Federico Rivoli – drums

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La Morte Viene Dallo Spazio, Trivial Visions (2021)