Italian doom/death/sludge metallers For The Storms stream new full-length album »Losing What’s Left Of Us«; out now via Meuse Music Records!

Brescia, Italy based doom/death/sludge metallers For The Storms are back with their second full-length album, »Losing What’s Left Of Us«, which was just released on October 12th, 2024 via Meuse Music Records.

Listen to »Losing What’s Left Of Us« on all major streaming platforms!

Tracklist:
01. Dogma
02. Regret
03. Ghosts
04. Closures
05. Losing What’s Left Of Us
06. Fragments
07. May The Emptiness You Carry Bring Some Comfort When You’re Gone
08. The Void Below
09. Nepenthe (To Watch Myself Drown)

The band comments: “After more that two years of writing, testing, scrapping, rewriting, recording, planning and sharing experiences together, here we are with our full-length album »Losing What’s Left Of Us«.

On the path to this day we met people and had the immense pleasure to work with great artists as Marco Mastrobuono and Tim De Gieter. We met, shared and enjoyed each time with our old drummer Leonardo Zizza that recorded amazing drum lines and met our new brother Lorenzo Rossetti.

We travelled, worked and laughed together and we’ve never been so close mentally and musically.
Above all we changed. And that’s fine.

Hope you’ll like it, let us know what you think about this.”

Courtesy of Meuse Music Records:

For The Storms is a post doom-death/sludge metal project born in 2019 in Brescia (Italy).

The project comes from the necessity and desire to narrate one’s experiences, thoughts, and conjectures on existence and non-existence.

The music, born as a simple outlet, has now evolved into a much more mature self-analysis, culminating in a poetic-philosophical exposition on mortality, change, and individual definition.

The band’s music writing is hardly classifiable in a classic list of metal subgenres, and it fits perfectly into what seems to be a new wave that has developed in recent years from sludge and doom, as well as hardcore and post-metal, especially in central and northern Europe.

The style characterized by contrasting sounds, heavy riffs, and expansive atmospheres ranging from the heaviness of a thousand mountains to the lightness of emptiness. This emerging genre, besides being a hybrid taking a lot from other subgenres, also constitutes a sensitive deepening of artistic meaning and values contemporary and traditional culture and personal feelings, pushing back against the superficiality and ignorance that seem to stir in today’s music.

“Music is not just a passion but a way of being, a reason for living. We all have different backgrounds in terms of personal, emotional, and professional spheres. However, an invisible thread connects us, binds us, and keeps us closely united in one goal: Saying something meaningful and to spreading our music, allowing it to be appreciated by those who are willing to engage in listening to something profound, with lyrics dense in meaning and unique sounds that draw from classic but revisited doom in a modern key with experimental ambient hints winking at many different styles.”

»Losing What’s Left Of Us« is a minimalistic album in which every note has been carefully picked in order to convey a sense of dissolution and austere loss.

The album is divided in three stylistically differentiated chapters arked by the two different interludes. The three chapters show a progressive hybridization of the main musical influences as some sort of inherent entropy. The album as a whole also presents a somewhat symmetrical and quasi-fractal hidden structure that is meant to symbolically keep the underlying balance of life itself without compromising the whole downhill concept we tried to tackle.

»Losing What’s Left Of Us« is both a dirge for the fleeting trail of tombs we leave on this earth as we are passing by and an ode to the uncertainty and transience we cannot leave behind.

Order your copy HERE

All music composed and arranged by For The Stroms.
All lyrics by Nicola Belotti.
Produced by For The Stroms and Marco Mastrobuono.
Recorded at Bloom Recording Studios by Marco Mastrobuono.
Mixed and mastered at Much Luv Studio by Tim De Gieter.
Drums on album by Leonardo Zizza.
Keys in »Ghosts« and »Closures« recorded by Daniele Piovani.
Artwork, photography and layout by Nicola Belotti.

For The Storms is:
Nicola Belotti – Vocals
Fabio Pierani – Guitars
Federico Albini – Bass
Diego Belleri – Guitars
Lorenzo Rossetti – Drums

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