Ponte Del Diavolo are blessed with a taste for the dark arts. These Italians weld doom and black metal into a sleek but towering force that’s just as cruel as the infamously steep bridge that medieval peasants has to cross on the way to their home country.
The band teased then danced with the devil on their previous two singles. Today, they’re pulling back the curtain on the more depraved part of their aesthetic.
Watch the bloody and burbling visualizer for “Nocturnal Veil”, which was created by Daniele Brancaccio: https://youtu.be/xEmQdnKGvk0
Fire Blades From The Tomb is out February 16, 2024.
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“Nocturnal Veil” billows with gloomy clarinet. But the band’s new single really shows off their bad side. Cymbals clank like chains through a pitch-black dungeon, while the riffs crack with the patient speed of a whip or the pointed finger of a siren.
“Everything is nothing”, Erba Del Diavolo chants, calling you into the void. Her croon is bewitching, beguiling and all-too-inviting.
“Let yourself be carried away by a dark mantra that brings with it images of annihilation”, says Ponte Del Diavolo. “Immensity overwhelms us, we are null”.
Early praise for Ponte Del Diavolo
“A rhythm section that sounds like thundering hooves; music that dangerously rings and swirls, like fleeing from something fatal” – No Clean Singing
“What strikes me most about the album is the sheer genre bending ability of this band. One minute, you think that you are listening to Doom Metal, and then turn the screw and another sound materializes” – Metal Temple
Track-list
1. Demone (5:00) [WATCH]
2. Covenant (6:56)
3. Red As The Sex Of She Who Lives In Death (6:20)
4. La Razza (8:03)
5. Nocturnal Veil (5:17)
6. Zero (5:26)
7. The Weeping Song (5:33)
Total: 42:35
PONTE DEL DIAVOLO bridges the gap between two separate worlds.
The Italian band proposes a Doom / Black metal sound with old-scho[1]ol roots, adding a modern and outside the box background. The female voice – with strong dark wave influences – is the lyric cor[1]pus of this strongly esoteric project. The solid presence of two bassists creates the massive foundation for the rhythmic guitar, everything marked by a raw and dynamic drumming.
Mystery of Mystery / Secret Live Session marked the quintet’s debut EP. It was recorded live and without editing at Dracma Studio with the producer L’Os[1]sario in their home base of Turin in March 2020. “I” was released on the web by Iopan Records. It was soon followed by their second single, “The Wickedest Wo[1]man In the World”.
At the end of 2021, Ponte Del Diavolo recorded their second EP, Sancta Menstruis at Deepest Sea Studio in Turin with Danilo Battocchio. The first single, “The Unborn”, arrived in February 2022.
The band’s third EP, Ave Scintilla!, was also recorded in Turin. This time around, they reconvened at Dracma Studio with L’Ossario.
Now that they’ve signed with Season of Mist, Ponte Del Diavolo are ready to release their debut album. Fire Blades From the Tomb forges classic, cultish doom metal with modern bents of post-punk. Lead single and opening track “Demone” is whipped along by a boiled black bass line and dark-wave induced vocals.
Prepare to cross over into the Italian dark arts.
Line-up
Elena Camusso (as Erba Del Diavolo) – Vocals
Alessio Caruso (as Krhura) – Bass
Andrea l’Abbate (as Kratom) – Bass
Stefano Franchina (as Segale Cornuta) – Drums
Rocco Scuzzarella (as Nerium) – Guitars
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