OvO‘s eleventh studio album Gemma, celebrating their twenty-five years of activity, is a manifesto of transformation.
Like a seed that makes a promise, Gemma is not just the title of the album, set to be released on October 3rd, 2025 on CD, vinyl, and digital by the Canadian label Artoffact Records, but also an invitation to regenerate, to rediscover the hidden potential in everything. It is a dance of exploration between human nature, matter, and the mystery of existence.
The music of OvO, already legendary in the vast landscape of noise rock, industrial metal, and avant-doom, continues in the sign of perpetual reinvention, seeking further synthesis between electronics and experimentation, connecting to their brave and acclaimed records from the past few years, Miasma (2020) and Ignoto (2022).
Each track from Gemma is like an act of creation, an alchemical passage through the elements toward a form of new weird life that blossoms, explodes, and changes.
The electronics blend more and more with the guitars of Stefania Pedretti (Alos) and the percussions of Bruno Dorella (Bachi da Pietra, Ronin, Sigillum S), forging an even more solid and cohesive alloy, where the basic substances melt and confuse each other, united by unique and unmistakable Pedretti’s voice, which becomes the key that dissolves all barriers, shaping a personal and timeless language.
According to Pedretti and Dorella: «Gemma is a reflection on change, a seed that sprouts in the fertile soil of new inputs. Gemma is metamorphosis, a challenge to immobility. It is an artistic gesture that aims to redraw the boundaries, to go beyond what has already been heard, towards new sound horizons».
The first new single Opale immediately highlights the breakdown of musical genres. With Dorella’s programming, and the guitars and vocals of Pedretti, it also features the abrasive voice of Martin Kaja aka Lord Spikeheart, with whom OvO share an ancient affinity, going well beyond music, rooted in a mutual recognition of unconventional paths, free from compromise. Opale takes on a dance-like pulse, hinting at iridescent shades in the future of the duo, beyond any predetermined structure.
The second single Stagno – in English, “Tin” – is resistance. It makes it through the world’s changes, like OvO during these years maintained its essence through a number of events, progressing but keeping their precise and fierce identity. Stagno is a mine that razes everything to the ground, with a tight industrial rhythm inspired by Ministry.
As the beauty of existence is in its continuous evolution, that of OvO is in the ability to renew themselves infinitely. From this suggestion started the collaboration with the tattoo artist Neroatto, to arrive at a cover artwork that evokes the themes exposed so far in a visionary perspective. Visionary like Gemma, like OvO.
Gemma European Tour
03/10 – IT Castiglione Delle Stiviere, ARCI Dallò
04/10 – IT Milano, ARCI Bellezza
11/10 – IT Firenze, CPA
24/10 – IT Modena, Kalinka ARCI Dude
25/10 – IT Padova, Pedro
07/11 – IT Pesaro, ARCI Artigiana
08/11 – IT Taranto, Mercato Nuovo
09/11 – IT Bologna, Improved Sequence Festival
14/11 – IT Asti, Diavolo Rosso
15/11 – IT Imperia, La Talpa E L’Orologio
27/11 – FR Paris, Les Instants Chavirès
28/11 – FR Clermont-Ferrand, Raymond
29/11 – FR Lyon, Grrrnd Zero
30/11 – CH Basel, Mental Load Agency
01/12 – CH Zurich, Boschbar
02/12 – DE Freiburg, Slow Club
03/12 – BE Kortrijk, The Pit’s
04/12 – BE Namur, Belvedere
05/12 – NL, Utrecht, Moira
06/12 – TBA
07/12 – DK Aalborg, 1000 Fryd
08/12 – DK Copenhagen, Råhuset
09/12 – DE Leipzig, ZxRx
10/12 – DE Berlin, Neues Zukunft
11/12 – CZ Plzen, Pod Lampou
12/12 – SLO Maribor, Pekarna
13/12 – AT Wien, EKH TBA
14/12 – HR Zagreb, Mocvara
15/12 – SLO Ljubljana, Channel Zero
19/12 – IT Roma, Forte Prenestino
More to come…
