Italian atmospheric black/doom metal duo Boleskine House presents their debut album »Miserabilist Blues«; out now via Masked Dead Records!

Milan, Italy based atmospheric black/doom metal duo Boleskine House has released their debut album »Miserabilist Blues« on April 17th, 2024 via Masked Dead Records.

Tracklist:
01. Black House Painters
02. Need
03. A Place To Mourn Forever
04. When You Sleep (My Bloody Valentine cover)

“Boleskine House is a place where anyone can find refuge from their ruined lives, an immaterial space where they can bask in their fantasies of nostalgia before they vanish forever without a trace. A dwelling that inevitably changes depending on the listener’s personal experiences.”

“»Miserabilist Blues« represents the catharsis of our adolescence and early adulthood. It was a very natural and spontaneous writing process but at the same time long and complex because we were going through periods of change and difficulty at the time we started composing.

Through our words, our music and also the aesthetics of our debut we wanted to represent various facets of the emotions we felt as young men facing depression, the weight of time and the expectations of promises of an unattainable life.”

Photos by Giulia Frump Gualazzi

»Miserabilist Blues« is the first work of Boleskine House.

It is about a poignant and elusive, yet seemingly endless moment, without a horizon. Time, beloved places, people known, people lost, fragile promises in the golden days of youth, broken dreams and impossible desires are amalgamated into an undying fog. These are the main themes the duo faces with black metal influenced by atmospheric sounds, full of personality and drama that deal with 90s doom and gothic, but also with outside genres such as shoegaze.

The songs surround the listener with dynamically paced and varied composition, like a journey through memories in the mind. Airy sections in which acoustic instruments relieve the bitter taste for a moment. Atmospheric sections in which the reverbs and long sustains of the various instruments give way to doubts and reflections, landing on more melancholic melodies that mutate with wrath and fury into carpets of electric guitar tremolo pickings and blast beats. Everything is crowned by a vocal section as rough as it is ethereal but at the same time well present, which permeates the atmosphere making it even thicker, more solemn and deeper.

FFO: Katatonia, Aquilus, Alcest, Agalloch, old-era Opeth, Paradise Lost.

Order »Miserabilist Blues« here:
maskedeadrecords.bandcamp.com/album/miserabilist-blues

Mix and mastering by Nicolò Brambilla (Aphotic, Fuoco Fatuo).
Visual concept by Boleskine House and Giulia Frump.

Line-up:
Raven Borsi – Vocals & lyrics
Nicolò Misrachi – Songwriting & instruments

Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well