In January I named Nero Di Marte’s forthcoming self-titled debut album my pick as The Album of 2013 That Will Fuck Your Face Off. This after I raved about them not once but twice in our Unsigned and Unholy series, back when they were called Murder Therapy. Now’s your chance to either tell me how right I was about this band or to call me out on my bullshit: your choice.
Nero Di Marte’s sound encompasses the churning, slow-grind death of Ulcerate, the fierce aggression of Gojira and the experimental and progressive elements of bands like The Ocean and Burst. See for you yourself. The album will definitely be in my top albums of 2013 list when December comes along, I can all but guarantee.
Nero Di Marte comes out on March 19th.
Italian experimental metal quartet NERO DI MARTE will release their self-titled debut album on March 19th in North America, March 18th in the UK and March 22nd in continental Europe.
The track listing for the album – the cover art for which appears above – is as follows:
The band recorded the album at Italy’s Regrexion Studios with producer Michele Trasforini. Mixing and mastering was completed at Studio73 with producer Riccardo “Paso” Pasini (EPHEL DUATH, THE SECRET, EXTREMA, AT THE SOUNDAWN).
The band is scheduled to play their record release show alongside GODFLESH in their hometown of Bologna on March 22nd.
Prosthetic Records has announced the signing of experimental metallers NERO DI MARTE.
Founded in Bologna, Italy in 2007, NERO DI MARTE will unveil its long-awaited self-titled release, a unique and experimental approach to structure, sound and atmosphere, in the spring of 2013. You can check out a teaser video of the new album below.
Commented NERO DI MARTE vocalist/guitarist Sean Worrell: “We are absolutely thrilled and honored to be working with Prosthetic Records, a label which has had and still has some of the most amazing bands out there. We are very thankful to them and can’t wait for you all to hear our album, the release of which is long overdue. We will hopefully see you on the road during 2013!”
Duncan Dinsdale, European label manager of Prosthetic Records, added: “It’s a rarity to discover such an exciting and forward-thinking new band that equally balances texture, heaviness, intelligence and perfect musicianship as NERO DI MARTE does with ease. We’re very excited for you to hear the upcoming new album shortly.”
Nero di Marte is the Italian name of a pigment, an iron oxide that produces a deep, dark, intense black that, when in contact with other colors, can permanently coat or noticeably transform them. Formerly known as MURDER THERAPY, the band signed to Dutch label Deity Down Records to release their debut, “Symmetry Of Delirium”, in 2009, which showcased a very personal style of modern death metal. They have played numerous shows and festivals around Italy and Europe, including performances with major acts such as CYNIC, DECAPITATED, THE OCEAN, INTRONAUT, ULCERATE, SVART CROWN, RED FANG, JUCIFER, THE SECRET and more. The group also performed at the prestigious Neurotic Deathfest in Tilburg, Holland with CARCASS, IMMOLATION, SIX FEET UNDER, NAPALM DEATH, BOLT THROWER and ORIGIN, among many others.
NERO DI MARTE’s broadened approach to songwriting was already audible in the 2010 self-released EP “Molochian”, which marked a stylistical step forward towards more progressive and atmospheric compositions. The following year, the group entered the studio to work on their new album. It was recorded in roughly nine days at Regrexion Studios with Michele Trasforini and then mixed and mastered at Studio 73 in Ravenna with producer Riccardo “Paso” Pasini (EPHEL DUATH, THE SECRET, EXTREMA, AT THE SOUNDAWN).
During the summer of 2012, the band decided to change its name to NERO DI MARTE, the name their new album was originally given; they now have a few shows in Italy to finish up the year, including dates with Norway’s VIRUS. and are planning to tour extensively in 2013 to promote the record.
It makes its way like a cloud, unexpected
when everything around is serene
What if, in its dark hues,
everything that was patiently ordered
collapsed with a crash
If everything ended here…
If the dreamed, the constructed
The past, the only hoped-for,
The achieved, the unfulfilled
If everything ended here
Would you stay?
Si fa strada come una nube inattesa
quando tutt’attorno è sereno
Se nei suoi bui riflessi
tutto il pazientemente ordinato
cedesse con uno schianto
se tutto finisse qui
Se il sognato, il costruito
Il passato ed il solo sperato
Il compiuto, l’irrealizzato
Se tutto finisse qui
Tu rimarresti ?
Clouded Allure
I run alone
In a forest of glass and remembrance
Thoughts I’ve never known
Swayed by the mist
Shards pierce my feet
The pain is awakening
This place isn’t safe
There’s no air to breathe
Search all that has gone
Find meaning for never remembering
Clouded by fear, clouded by nothingness
Distant sounds allure me, a hymn to follow
I find you there at its origin
I transcend all imprisonment
From nothing I have come
To it I shall return
All the emptiness is something I create
The mist is paralyzing me
Things it lead me to believe
Breach through my skin
Dissolve into the air
And disappear
But the mist will never leave
Pulsar
Smoke dissipates and I become self deceiving
Smoke dissipates I am hollowed and there’s nothing left but me
You asked to cut the strings that blinded us here
You asked me to leave the weight that kept us here
Infant hiding in the sun
You are just waiting to be born
Let us go
Lost
Is this what you saw
Starless
How you thought it would be
This isn’t what you wanted
What you believed
Thought it would be
You couldn’t see
Nothing is here
Now you’re free to go adrift
Dite
Eyes hollowed in memory
one closed – one lifeless.
Eyes path to your disguise
one shivers – one far away.
Eyes as the nights ends
one recognizes – one turns away-
Eyes as our time here ends
one sneers – one opens.
You’ve returned
The eyes of Dis are mine
Simulacra
Undo what was done
The beasts emerge beneath the stone
From deeper than what we recall
So unfamiliar
We are deluded insignificance,
With empty thoughts and empty faces
We are fixated on our invention
And erect imperial walls of design
I wonder these rules, meanings, races
Just structures for all places
Sheltered from these hailing stones
We are rulers of a world that is not our own
I am the animal
I am reborn
Come now, undo what was done
you’ve failed to learn
My child, you’ve failed to learn
You ignore that you’re condemned to endure
Forces that you say don’t exist
You’re self-satisfied by your illusion of omnipotence
When that is precisely your weakness
You search for an escape but it’s useless
You lie to yourself
You collapse
Engulfed by the vortex
You lose your senses, the notion of time
Engulfed by the vortex
Uprooted from your nature
Engulfed by the vortex
Not a glimmer of light
Engulfed by the vortex
With no beginning nor end
The flood will never cease
But when you bring yourself closer
Everything becomes less immense and more circumscribed
These sensations are what you want to feel
These illusions are what you want to see
They suffocate me
Let what you’ve created collapse
Ignori il fatto che sei condannato a subire
Forze di cui neghi l’esistenza
Sei compiaciuto dalla tua illusione di onnipotenza
Quando è proprio questa la tua debolezza
Cerchi una via di fuga ma è inutile
Tu menti a te stesso
Sprofondi
Inghiottito dal gorgo
Perdi i sensi, la nozione del tempo
Inghiottito dal gorgo
Sradicato dalla tua natura
Inghiottito dal gorgo
Nessun barlume di luce
Inghiottito dal gorgo
Senza inizio né fine
Il Diluvio non cesserà
Ma mentre ti riavvicini quieto
Tutto diventa meno immenso e più circoscritto
Queste sensazioni sono ciò che vuoi sentire
Queste illusioni sono ciò che vuoi vedere
Mi soffocano
Lascia che crolli ciò che hai creato
Those Who Leave
Are you there?
Was it ever there?
Were you?
Are we not those who leave?
Can’t we be afraid?
Convergence
This is the end
Plans unfold
And everything converges
All converges
Deformed and remoulded
A veiled conviction for all to see
Give it a name, leave it behind
Break them and then bring them back to life
You can’t stop
When all converges
Close your eyes, take a step forward
Sink in the abyss with us
In the art of falling forever
Time Dissolves
As ground dissolves from underneath
The statue shatters lifted from the burden
While spiraling further down
Replaced
Feel it weighing down
It comes to pass
So it waits
It rests, unprepared
Hidden to the numb, from itself
Until time dissolves
Under a different light
Torn by the sun
Time wears us down
Showing who we are
Resilient
Lost all emotion
Feel it inside, its emptiness
This isn’t fear
Just immense cold nothing
This is what we want
Flood, wash everything away
So we can be dry to the bone
Lost all emotion
This isn’t fear
Just immense cold nothing
Nero Di Marte
Sentenced to chase one another
But never reach in a maze with no end
we descend
Sentenced to whirl and never stop
This flightin a maze with no light
So be it
This obsessive beating
This immense abyss that pulls us
So be it
We surrender ourselves, once again
To this dissonant vibration
Verso il luogo dove la parole muore
Ed un unico colore chiude l’orrizonte
Un ultima volta
Con un boato silenzioso
Nero di Marte
Sentenced to chase one another
But never reach in a maze with no end
we descend
Drawn Back
Where does the sea start and where does it end?
Every wave breaks, draws back, creates a new line
Pick up a stone and cast it
How far is it from the shore?
Between today and tomorrow
there will always be a difference
The ocean brought back shreds of what I had cast
Dirty with sand and salt, encrusted and refined
Gather – rediscover
Ask myself the reason why
I threw
Objects so crucial
The same saltiness
Anoptikon
Welcome to my architecture
Held by fear
Watch and you’ll see
Flashing red lights
Hiding truth
With a thousand blind eyes
Watch and you’ll see
My ultimate portrait
Of a collapsing reality
I’m the moral hidden
in the depths of your mind
Moulded and conformed
Collected and ordered
God’s eyes have been
Replaced by me
A drowning hopelessness
A shared judgment
I’m the moral hidden
in the depths of your mind
I’ll oversee you
God’s eyes have been
Replaced by me
Locked forever
in a prison you plead me to build
Watch
You can’t see
Blind is your belief
Finis Terrae
(written and performed by Nero di Marte)
Ti ho cercato in tutto quello che
è scosso e trema
come mosso dal grido di un vento che
non trova pace
Ti ho trovato
dove l’acqua scura scrive
e cancella ogni giorno
un libro che non conosce parole
E la terra finisce
A Man With No Way Out
(written and performed by Void of Sleep)
A life caged by the sickness
And a lesson never learned
It’s a prison of the mind,
While your bones writhing in pain
Nailed to the cross
Exposed and humiliated
A man long time forgotten
Never ending paying his guilt
Violated in his soul
Deprived of dignity
Blank eyes, hollow brain
A man with no way out
Facing the fear and your disease,
There is no one who can help you
Trying to survive at the voices,
There is no one who can save you
There is no one who can help you,
You’re out of your head…out of your head
There is no one who can save you, alone with yourself,
Alone with yourself with your sickness who tries to
Defeat you again…
Trying to breathe a bit of life inside
You still don’t know if you’re alive
Trying to catch a glimpse of hope tonight
Realize you’re a man with no way out
