LaColpa Archives - NO CLEAN SINGING

(written by Islander)

Over the course of two previous albums the Italian band LaColpa have musically and lyrically elaborated their philosophy of pain, “deeply rooted in the human condition of eternal suffering,” through “different stratifications of sonic nightmares.”

I’ve quoted there from the introduction provided by Brucia Records to LaColpa‘s recently announced third album, In Absentia Lucis. The label also describes the album as “a pitch-black magma of suffering in music, combining Sludge, Doom and Dissonant Black Metal with some of the most painful soundscapes of improvisational Noise and Drone.” Regarding the new record’s thematic focus, they say:

After having explored themes like guilt, awareness of own mortality and the condition of pain which inevitably grips our existence, In Absentia Lucis closes the circle by bringing back the reflection on our own condition of impotence.

We are lost in the immense solitude of our Ego, masters of Nothing.
We are the Lords of Nothingness.
Lost in Our Vast Loneliness. Continue reading »

On the day of the Winter Solstice, the 21st of December, Brucia Records will release the second full-length by the Italian band LaColpa. Given the critical acclaim heaped upon the band’s first album, 2017’s Mea Maxima Culpa, both intrigue and anticipation have circled around this new one, the title of which is Post Tenebras Lux.

The album’s title translates to “after darkness, light”, but it is often difficult to imagine that any light will survive the nightmarish experiences that the band have crafted through their amalgam of blackened doom, drone, and improvisational harsh noise. Thematically, as the band’s label explains, “this new album outlines LaColpa’s philosophy of pain, deeply rooted in the human condition of eternal suffering”. In what we judge to be the band’s own words, the inspiration for the music is a harrowing philosophy: Continue reading »

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