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“Ignoto” is the new album by OvO, to be released on September 23rd, 2022 via Artoffact Records; listen to the first single “La Morte Muore (Part 2)”

Ignoto is the new and tenth album by OvO, legendary Italian duo formed by Stefania Pedretti (? Alos, Allun) and Bruno Dorella (Ronin, Bachi da Pietra, Tiresia , GDG Modern Trio, Sigillum S). The album will be released on September 23rd, 2022 on CD, vinyl and digital by Canadian label Artoffact Records.

Following Miasma – dating back to February 2020 – and the chaos afterwards, OvO felt the need of an album that would be different from the others, that would have new elements, some of which might be refined in the future, but also the need to continue the discourse that began with Miasma. In fact, if on one hand the band continues to evolve as it has always done over its career of more than twenty years, on the other hand the Miasma Tour was greatly compromised by the fact that the album came out right after the start of the pandemic leaving the band with the desire to continue performing those songs during the next tour.

Ignoto contains two tracks both lasting over twenty minutes. In this sense the album could be described as doom or sludge but with OvO nothing is ever that simple. The electronic elements that have been present over recent years are still there and play important roles in both pieces.

Above all, however, the lyrics are composed of complete sentences in Italian, a thing which rarely happened in the past. Stefania Pedretti took her inspiration from science fiction and horror classics (Octavia E. Butler, Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, H. P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, Philip K. Dick, Ray Bradbury, Clive Barker, Ambrose Bierce…) bringing out the more esoteric side.

The musical language dilates (and for this reason this album will most likely remain unique in OvO’s discography) whereas the lyrical side is enriched with explicit meaning compared to the past where the lyrics where left up to interpretation. Ignoto means “unknown” in italian. It refers to what happened in the last two years in the world and to the band members personally. Especially Pedretti experienced some major health issues that changed her perspective on many things. But most of all it refers to what expects all of us next.

First track La Morte Muore as four movements. First single La Morte Muore (Part 2), now available on all digital platforms, means that Death Dies, literally. It’s the album’s manifesto. A sludge vision, morbid but poetic. Science fiction and reality meet in the twilight zone.

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