“Do you see our cities? Our constant struggle to earn a place in the front row and admire the glory of the powerful? Then pull your eyes out and look at what we truly are: we are the dream of a dying god“.
This is where the anticipations of the dystopian universe of “Il mondo aldilà”, the new concept album by INSANIA.11, lay deep.
It portrays a society where technological progress imposed a rigid discipline upon humanity that reduced human beings to a state of alienating servitude. The story unfolds through the eyes of a spiritual movement developed in this surreal reality. By using psychedelic drugs, the followers of this subversive cult force open the boundaries between the physical world and the astral plane.
The distortion of reality thins the veil separating humanity’s confined existence from other realms, making their perception possible. Fragile and undefined in some of these worlds, a clarified essence of our chronicle reflect a heightened and distorted version of our own reality, while others echo memories of ancient myths acknowledged in our childhood. Some are worlds of prisons, others are worlds of theshold and of a transition from embryo to chrysalis to butterfly. A flutter of wings that shakes the structure of reality itself.
“Il mondo aldilà” is a complex and nerdy work that plunges the listener’s ear labyrinths into the labyrinth of the film The Shining. It’s like a Rubik’s Cube of extreme metal that dismantles and reassembles death metal, black metal and progressive sound to serve its narrative by challenging both ears and mind. This is a multidimensional object whose most recognizable reflections recall Death, Coroner, Necrophagist and Necrophobic.
Bleak, claustrophobic, razor-sharp and liberating, “Il mondo aldilà” is now available on all digital platforms. Physical copies are available on Bandcamp.
Listen to “Il mondo aldilà” on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/intl-it/album/5X2LaMYRsxcA9q6aLoGARS
INSANIA.11 emerged from the ashes of Insania, a thrash(core) band active between 1989 and 1997 with a demo and a handful of rough recordings. The project turned in 2008 into a studio-based entity led by Samaang, eventually materializing in 2010 with the EP “I Diari di Samaang: lo Stato Larvale”.
Following an attempted reunion with the original lineup, the project consolidated around the core duo of Samaang and Ethrum, leading to the release of “Di Sangue e di Luce” in 2017. Despite limited distribution, the album received positive feedback from the specialized press. In 2019, “L’Orrore” was released after a few setbacks and hardship.
New material emerged from 2019 and despite the difficulties encountered by the isolation of the pandemic period, the creative process expanded into a broader and more structured work. Alongside the songwriting, a unified conceptual framework took form, while vocal techniques were refined through the collaboration with Scream Studios. Once the arrangements and recordings were completed, “Il mondo aldilà” reached its final form with the contribution of Marco Allemandi who handled mixing and mastering at Triora Records.
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