Italian experimental doom jazz collective To Die On Ice premiere first single »Baccanale« from upcoming album »Panoramica Degli Abissi«

Bologna, Italy based experimental doom jazz collective To Die On Ice premiere the first single »Baccanale« taken from their sophomore album, »Panoramica Degli Abissi«, set to release on February 6th, 2026 via Subsound Records and Gymnocal Industries.

Tracklist:
01. Edera
02. Un sottomarino terribile o un’astronave inarrestabile
03. Baccanale
04. L’aggravante dei futili motivi
05. L’insonnia
06. La notte e’ giovane
07. Nerofumo
08. Tintarella di nulla
09. Un’estate
10. (Tutto, tranne) La febbre
11. A colpi d’ascia
12. Tempeste di sabbia
13. E alla fine tutto torna

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»Panoramica Degli Abissi«, the second studio album by To Die On Ice, is set for release on vinyl and digital formats on 6 February 2026 via Italian label Subsound Records and Norwegian label Gymnocal Industries.

To Die On Ice is a band with an artistic collective vocation, founded in 2021 and composed of former members of action dead mouse, ominoacidi, what contemporary means and oracle. Conceived as an open workshop that reflects on music and beyond, it brings together people with different musical styles in the name of “Lynch Core”, a genre defined by the author on the edge of sentimental pornography and at the crossroads between the sensual and unsettling imagery of the Black Lodge and Club Silencio, with an anti-technical, minimalist yet atmospheric noir jazz, blues and soul dilations, crooner voices that tear open and turn into screams.

»Panoramica Degli Abissi« (translated as “Pan Of The Abyss”), is an album intended as an alternative narrative of a namesake story written by Filippo Dionisi, illustrated by comic book artist Vitt Moretta, and published in a bilingual book in Italian and English by Edizioni Fantasma. A novel set in a surreal post-New Year’s Eve, where the two protagonists, Paul and Bacall, happen to cross paths, along with their respective destinies and secret fears, on the parapets of an overpass, to find themselves in a race aboard a car that becomes a glowing submarine hurled toward the unknown.The band does not consider the record as a soundtrack commenting on the story, but as the manipulation of the same material, the story, with a different medium, music.

The project also includes a video section: a visual album written by Filippo Dionisi and directed by Lulù Withheld, which expands on a minor detail from the story – an ice-skating performance glimpsed while channel-surfing – to produce an experiment in combinatory editing focused on the relationship between music and images. The visual album, available on VHS, was obtained by combining a more or less fixed and predetermined number of video fragments in as many different ways as there are tracks.

The sounds and atmospheres of the new album revisit and deepen those of the first record »Una specie di ferita« (2022), adding even more diverse ambiences – a cappella gospel-screamo moment featuring Vespertina, a dark duet with Francesca Bono of Bono-Burattini / Ofelia Dorme and a touch of Fred Bongusto doom-style – to the Lynch Core born with the first publication. Recorded and mixed by Enrico Baraldi and mastered by Claudio Adamo, »Panoramica Degli Abissi« was performed live by Filippo Dionisi (guitar/vocals), Andrea Pedone (saxophone), Alessandro Vitali (drums), and Marco Senin (bass), who replaced Simone Ferri. In an ideal reference to the imagery of the visual, the vinyl will be released in a limited edition in ice blue with blood red center label, and in a standard black edition.

The first single from the album is »Baccanale«, due for release on 19 December 2025. The band describes it like this: “Entry into the vaporous fog rising from sweaty skin and a headlong dive into the animal hunger of base instincts, »Baccanale« is a wave that breaks down into an orgy, amid distorted dilations and post-blues from the dark depths of a saxophonic ocean of bodily fluids. The third track of »Panoramica Degli Abissi«, it’s where Paul rescues Bacall at a party of wolves and crows. Whatever that’s supposed to mean.”

The second single from the album is »Un’estate«, due for release on 13 January 2026. The band describes it like this: “»Un’estate« is the indictment of a season that doesn’t live up to its promises. The soul-tinged shades of bass and sax coil around the distorted tremolo of a guitar reaching for vertigo, with a ’60s-style crooning that puts a hood over Fred Bongusto only to unleash him into a doom dimension, where a sudden screamo outburst gives way to a rhythmic finale with disguised Motown inspiration. The ninth track of »Panoramica Degli Abissi«, it’s where Bacall lets Paul in. Whatever that may mean.”

Pre-order »Panoramica Degli Abissi«: todieonice.bandcamp.com

Album:
Music: To Die On Ice
Lyrics: Filippo Dionisi
Vocals / guitar: Filippo Dionisi
Sax: Andrea Pedone
Bass: Marco Senin
Drums: Alessandro Vitali
Featuring vocals by: Vespertina (L’insonnia), Francesca Bono (Tempeste di sabbia)
Recording / mixing: Enrico Baraldi at Vacuum Studio, Bologna
Mastering: Claudio Adamo at Fonoprint, Bologna
Artwork: Caterina Birolo

Book:
Author: Filippo Dionisi
Illustrations: Vitt Moretta
Translation: Nicholas Bertoli
Graphic design: Caterina Birolo
Publishing house: Edizioni Fantasma

Visual album:
Concept: Filippo Dionisi
Direction / dop / color: Lulù Withheld
Performer: Greta Ranieri
Camera: Edoardo Podo, Edoardo Ianniello Alessandro Vitali
Editing: Alessandro Vitali
Production / makeup: Carlotta Pircher

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