Italian trio SCONFITTA will release their debut album “Essere Nessuno” on May 1, 2026, marking the first official statement from a project built on the deliberate rejection of success, coherence and convention.
SCONFITTA has as its sole objective in failure.
By fluidly blending various niche musical genres, from hardcore punk to metal, passing through dark wave, post-punk, and jazz, we aim to be a dissonant and out-of-tune note in the paradoxically homogeneous and artificially harmonious chorus of protest music.
In a system, both related to the music industry and life in general, that promotes the hegemony of ambition and considers victory the sole measure of excellence, even protest is stifled within traditionally predefined genres and languages, which end up neutralizing its revolutionary force by confining it to an uncritical and self-referential model.
The lyrics are important, and they are all political.
Shifting rapidly between feelings of anger, introspection, indignation, and reflection, “Essere Nessuno” speaks only to those and with those who have no interest in winning, only to those and with those who place the nobility of failure before success at all costs.
Schizophrenic music against standardized dissent.
FFO: Negazione, Mr Bungle, Refused, Hüsker Dü, and Johnny Dorelli (for non Italians, imagine some ‘70s nightclub jazzy vibes of sort). But all blended together.
Tracklist:
1) Sconfitta (3:33)
2) Brucia sempre così (2:34)
3) Senza esempi (3:27)
4) Buio nella mente (2:35)
5) Lunghe ombre (1:39)
6) Non un vizio di forma (2:01)
7) Essere nessuno (3:25)
SCONFITTA was born from a (bad) idea by Simone.
After failing almost all of his previous musical incarnations (Antropofagus, Feed Them Death, Nganga, Grieving Sea, Pseudodoxia), he felt the need to create a new project to add to the long list of things no one else really needed.
The nearly seven years spent with Giorgio (Derhead, Katiusha, Dual, Grieving Sea, Ultio) stubbornly sowing seeds of failure with the label Brucia Records became the blueprint on which the duo decided to lay the foundations for their new musical failure.
Last but not least, Enrico arrives to complete the debacle. Technically gifted and strangely showing no signs of obvious mental health issues, he is still a drummer and therefore plays and collaborates with various bands simultaneously (ExpiatoriA, IKITAN, The Healing Process, Derhead, and Noisext). He’s the most handsome and successful of the three, but he’ll lose by osmosis.
In just a few months, the trio has composed an album without rhyme or reason that’s unlikely to please anyone, and they’ve even topped it all off with a little book that no one will ever read.
Defeated, possibly, by name and by nature, but always by choice.
SCONFITTA online:
https://sconfitta.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/w.sconfitta/
https://www.instagram.com/w.sconfitta/
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