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Dark Italian Art

by Selvans

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Ippocalyptica I initially listened to Dark Italian Art via my home speakers, but only truly understood what was happening here when I absorbed it through my headphones. And what, exactly, is happening here? On paper, the blending of Italian progressive rock with folk-infused black metal and operatic theatricality might seem like too much, but Selvans, master of his craft that he is, effectively gives us the Devil Doll album for which we have yearned these many years! A top EP of 2021, beyond any doubt. Favorite track: Verrà Corvo Morto.
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Nuno Lourenço I already loved this project, but when you reference Devil Doll and Goblin as influences and then cover a Metamorfosi track...then Selvans reaches yet another level and becomes a personal fav!
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    Hardcover Mediabook CD (ltd. 1000) with the tale 'Verrà Corvo Morto' by Luigi Musolino, in both English and Italian.

    This press will be the only one in this format with the tale and a special surprise in the CD. Once gone, the EP will be eventually repressed in a standard digisleeve edition without this extra contents.

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1.
Introduzione (Metamorfosi cover) 02:16
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2.
Verrà Corvo Morto 06:51
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3.
L'Inferno (Metamorfosi cover medley) 04:09
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4.
The Hanged Ballad (Death SS cover) 08:17
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5.
Iò Pan! 05:45
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6.
L'Errante 02:31
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about

Three years after the second full-length 'Faunalia', the singer/keyboardist Selvans returns with a new EP.
'Dark Italian Art' is definitely the Manifesto of the Italian composer. Selvans confirms the prog rock and symphonic influences introducted in the previous work (with Goblin and Devil Doll ruling the roost), imprinting them definitely in his folk-horror scenery.

The EP introduces 'Corvo Morto' (Italian for 'Dead Crow'), a character created by Selvans in collaboration with the horror writer Luigi Musolino and to whom the track 'Verrà Corvo Morto' (Italian for 'Corvo Morto will come') is connected, as well as the homonimous tale attached to the 80 pages digi-book version of the EP.
Aside from the second new track 'Iò Pan!' and the outro 'L'Errante', Selvans celebrates the artistic heritage of his country with the cover of 'The Hanged Ballad' taken from the first Death SS' album and a cover medley of the legendary album 'Inferno' by Metamorfosi, a progressive italian rock band from the 70's.

This will be the first work in which Selvans is joined by his full live band, made of valid musicians who are with him since several years of concerts.
Learnt the lesson of the great masters of the horror and the absurd in music – with Screamin' Jay Hawkins and King Diamond above all – Selvans offers a decandent and peculiar interpretation which is brazenly Italian.
Walking among woods and ruins of ghost villages, Selvans leads a procession of outcasts hidden behind animal masks, on a muddy stage weaved with roots, whispering rituals of rural magic and cursed doggerels.
Curtains up!

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released November 12, 2021

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⊱ THE ITALIAN HORRORIST ⊰
Black/heavy metal with prog-rock vibes and lyrics/visual linked to italian folk-horror tales.

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