Experimental heavy priestess Lili Refrain premieres new video off upcoming »Nagalite« album on Subsound Records; UK & EU tour starts this week!
Rome, Italy based avant-garde multi-instrumentalist Lili Refrain has unleashed new single and music video »Coil« taken from her upcoming full-length album, »Nagalite«, set to release this Friday, March 27th, 2026 via Subsound Records.
Tracklist:
01. Exuvia
02. Nagal
03. Coil
04. Lithos
Courtesy of Purple Sage PR:
Italian avant-garde heavy alchemist Lili Refrain presents her hypnotic new video for »Coil« today, ahead of the imminent release of her sixth studio album »Nagalite« on Subsound Records and an extensive European and UK tour this Friday.
About her new video directed by Sandro Bocci, Lili Refrain comments: “»Coil« introduces the third movement of Nagalite: the threshold space. It is a magical circle of synth and percussive layers that envelop like a spiral: a place where poison and remedy brush against each other, where vision arises exactly at the point where fear and desire meet. Here the serpent reveals its dual nature: guide or predator? The answer is not in the serpent, but in the one who chooses to cross it. It is the most ritual chapter of the journey: the awareness that every collective transformation is born from a risk, a choice, an act of responsibility.”
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Photo by Lodovica di Bernardo
Lili Refrain’s sixth studio album »Nagalite« is a suite in four movements. Four alchemical states of an imaginary serpentine metamorphosis, a practice of transformation that crosses the body, memory, and the historical time we inhabit. A sonic reflection that speaks of us, in an era where wars return to burn and horror becomes normalized, dissolving into background noise. Amidst this darkness, the serpent becomes an act of love: the possibility to change, to shed the skin that hurts, to refuse the repetition of suffering. “»Nagalite« is an invitation to remember this. To transform not only to save ourselves, but to rediscover the thread of love that binds us to all that exists,” says Lili Refrain.
Entirely written, performed and executed by Lili Refrain, »Nagalite« is built through real-time looping using voice, guitar, bass, synth, floor tom, bass drum and drum machine. It was recorded, mixed and mastered at 16th Cellar Studio in Rome by Stefano Morabito. Check out her latest »Nagal« video!
Lili Refrain European spring tour:
27.03 – IT – Empoli – Teatro Che Non C’è
28.03 – IT – Turin – Ziggy Club
02.04 – UK – Leeds – Brudenell Social Club
03.04 – UK – North Shields – Three Tanners Bank
04.04 – UK – Glasgow – Hug & Pint
05.04 – UK – Huddersfield – Parish
06.04 – UK – Bristol – The Gryphon
07.04 – UK – Cambridge – Portland Arms
08.04 – UK – Nottingham – Bodega
10.04 – DE – Hamburg – Hafenklang
12.04 – DE – Berlin – Urban Spree
13.04 – PL – Lodz – Cultural Centre
14.04 – PL – Krakow – Alchemia
15.04 – PL – Katowice – Piaty Dom
16.04 – CZ – Prague – CROSS
19.04 – NL – Tilburg – Roadburn Festival
New album »Nagalite« out March 27th on Subsound Records (LP/CD/digital)
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Lili Refrain is a multi-instrumentalist, composer and performer based in Rome, Italy. Born in 2007, the solo project “Lili Refrain” operates with electric guitar, voice, percussion and synthesizers, overlaying them in real time through loop stations. The atmosphere she evokes covers a wide sonic range that combines minimalist, folk, psychedelic, blues, metal and opera textures, without using any computers or pre-recorded tracks. Her songs are embedded with ritual energies and her live performances are a cathartic experience capable of leading the listener into an unforgettable act beyond the boundaries of any genre.
Considered by many to be a true revelation, Lili Refrain has played and left her mark at many international festivals as Roadburn (Netherlands), Hellfest (France), Desertfest (Belgium), Motocultor (France), Inferno Fest (Norway), Mystic Fest (Poland), Dunk Fest (Belgium), Midgardsblot (Norway), Kilkim Zaibu (Lituania), AmFest (Spain), Fekete Zaj (Hungary), Ascension Festival (Iceland), Sonic RItes (Finland), Extramuralhas (Portugal), to name a few. Throughout the years, she has collaborated and shared the stage with the likes of Heilung, The Cult, Meshuggah, Ben Frost, Steve Vai, Current 93, Sieben, Cannibals Corps, Megadeath, Napalm Death, Anna Von Hausswolff, Lingua Ignota, Author and Punisher, Alcest, Oranssi Pazuzu, Testament, Gojira, Godflesh.
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