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Dark Italian Art

by Selvans

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Metallurgical Fire
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Metallurgical Fire Dark Italian Art is the most on the nose album title possible, but this release surpasses all expectations. It’s one of my favorites upon first listen. Too many covers to be an EP of the year contender I guess, but I enjoyed it more than most music in 2021. Favorite track: Iò Pan!.
Saffron Robe
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Saffron Robe Not a Selvans album as we know it, a bit too whacky and OTT. I thought it was slightly inconsistent at first, due to the diverse influences, but as a fan of both Italian prog and Death SS I persevered and have come to really quite enjoy this weird concoction of prog, horror and black metal!
Dave Aftandilian
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Dave Aftandilian Over the top--in a good way!--prog-influenced black metal. Cinematic and deeply emotional in the finest Italian horror tradition. And what a cool artifact in the book + CD package!
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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Comes with printed innersleeve in full colors, and two vinyl color variants!

    Includes unlimited streaming of Dark Italian Art via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    The'DARK ITALIAN ART' manifesto-ep is here!

    This is an exceptional format of a Media book CD, hardcover, with 84 pages book inside!

    - Hardcover Artbook CD 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.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Dark Italian Art via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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L’Errante 02:31

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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